How to Use Alexa on Your iPhone

How to Utilise Alexa on Your iPhone

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Look out, Siri: You no longer need an Echo or Echo Dot to use Amazon's voice assistant, as it's as well bachelor on iOS devices. But before you get-go saying "Hey Alexa" into your iPhone, here'south what you need to know well-nigh what it tin can and can't practise, whether you accept it, and how to use it.

How to use Alexa: Tips, tricks, and how-tos

How to use Amazon Alexa on your iPhone

1. Download and install the Amazon Alexa app.

ii. Open the Amazon Alexa app.

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3. Tap the Alexa icon at the top of the app. The first time you use this characteristic, you will have to grant Alexa some permissions on your iOS device, such as whether to allow Alexa to utilise your location data, camera, and microphone. Press Allow when asked.

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4. Go hands-free. If y'all desire to apply Alexa without having to printing on an icon in the app, select Turn On for the Hands-gratis way. You can always deactivate this in the Settings card under "Alexa on this Telephone."

5. After granting permissions, the next fourth dimension you press the Alexa button in the app, the screen will dim, and a blue bar will announced at the bottom along with an icon for a keyboard. Here, yous can speak your request to Alexa.

6. If you can't or don't want to say your command aloud to Alexa, you lot can also type in your request. From the abode screen of the Alexa app, press the keyboard icon in the upper left-mitt corner. Or, printing the Alexa button and and so the keyboard icon that appears at the lesser of the screen.

At this point, you can inquire Alexa anything you would of whatever other Alexa-enabled device, from turning on your smart lights to ordering items online to random questions about the universe.

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