Perplexity’s voice assistant is now available on iOS

Perplexity’s voice assistant has hit Apple devices.

Announced by the San Francisco-based, Nvidia- and Jeff Bezos-backed company on X on Wednesday, the AI search engine’s iOS app now includes the ability to chat aloud with the assistant. Perplexity’s Android app launched in January in 15 languages.

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The voice assistant allows you to move beyond the app itself within the conversation in order to book a table at a restaurant or a rideshare, provide directions, check your calendar, play music, or draft and send an email.

You can find it within the Perplexity iOS app within the search bar at the bottom of the screen next to “Ask anything.” Tapping this will prompt you to allow the app to access the microphone and you can start chatting.

I asked Perplexity to find me the best coffee near me and it generated a map of “highly rated” cafes in London while listing them aloud. When I asked Perplexity where it drew the information from, it said, “A combination of sources including TripAdvisor and Google Maps, which include user ratings and reviews to highlight popular spots.”

From “a combination of sources including TripAdvisor and Google Maps.”
Credit: Mashable composite: Perplexity screenshot

Perplexity’s voice assistant arrives on iOS at a time when competitors like Google’s Gemini Live, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Voice Mode, and AI startup Sesame are aiming for seamless chats aloud with multimodal AI assistants.

The news also comes just over a month after Perplexity announced its own Deep Research tool, powered by a version of DeepSeek R1.