If you're looking for a voice assistant for your iPhone that actually understands what you mean and provides hands-free help throughout your day, Perplexity Voice should be on your radar. Setting up a shortcut to Perplexity Voice on your phone means fast searches, booking reservations, and sending emails all through voice commands.
While Perplexity Voice can't fully replace Siri for complete iPhone control just yet, you can take advantage of its smarter and more conversational responses in the meantime. Here's how to set it up.
1. Get Perplexity
For this to work you’ll need to install the latest version of the Perplexity app on your phone first. You can get it from the App Store for free here.
2. Open Shortcuts
Next, you’ll want to open your Shortcuts app, which comes default with iOS.
3. Navigate to Perplexity
Scroll down through the listed apps, sorted in alphabetical order, until you reach Perplexity. Alternatively you can use the search bar. Then tap the app.
4. Start voice mode
Tap start voice mode to instantly launch Perplexity’s voice mode.
5. Return to Shortcuts
To speed up this process and pin this shortcut to your home screen, return to your Shortcuts app.
6. Create a new shortcut
To create a new shortcut, tap the + sign.
7. Find Perplexity
Scroll through the list of apps and tap the Perplexity app once you’ve reached it.
8. Start voice mode
Tap on start voice mode from the list of options presented.
9. Pin the shortcut
To pin this shortcut on your home screen, first press the share option.
10. Add to Home screen
Lastly, tap on add to home screen, to be able to quickly find this shortcut in the future. Select the color and icon of the shortcut and tap on add to confirm your request.
11. Launch your shortcut
To instantly launch Perplexity Voice to use it as your iOS assistant, navigate to your newly created shortcut and launch it.
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