A few weeks ago Amazon announced that Alexa was launching the ” hands-free ” mode on Android and iOS, with which you could already ask Alexa for things with the voice on your phone just as you do with Echo products or that work with Alexa, without, However, this currently only works with the Alexa app in the foreground. Days later the company also announced that they were working on better integration between Alexa and third-party applications so that the Amazon assistant could execute actions with the voice directly in the apps.
A clear example of the above is that now you can ask Alexa on your phone to open Twitter, put a song on Spotify, search for a word on Google, and even ask her to start a recording on TikTok.
And today, Jeff Bezos’ company has made the new redesign of its application for Android and iOS official. In the words of the company, “The update gives customers access to the most used functions of the application directly from the home screen while navigating in a simplified design to find everything they need. As customers continue to use the Alexa app, it will provide more personalized suggestions based on what they like best. ”
What is new in the new interface?
If you already use the Alexa app, you know that once you open it, certain recommendations appear based on the skills you use, the music you listen to or what you ask Alexa to do. With this new interface you will have much more personalized suggestions that will improve the user experience even more, we will have to test it to know how personalized the improvements are in the recommendations, but Amazon mentions that we will have controls for the functions that are currently active or that are used frequently, so they can pick them up where they left off.
The most visually noticeable change is that the Alexa button goes from the bottom to the top, but we will have to keep tapping the icon or saying “Alexa” to activate it.
In the case of users who are just beginning to enter the Alexa ecosystem, they will have a kind of tutorials and suggestions to start taking advantage of the most popular functions of the assistant.
When will the update arrive?
The company mentions that the update will come to Android and iOS in Mexico and all other countries where Alexa is available from today, but the update is progressive and will conclude in the course of next month.