By default, Siri is the virtual assistant that Apple incorporates in all its products and services, including the iPhone, iPad or Mac among others. This wizard is quite complete, it is synchronized with the entire ecosystem, and it is the one that can perform the most actions taking into account that it has access to all the firm’s operating systems. But nevertheless, Today there are other alternatives to the assistant in the App Store, such as Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa, which can already be used almost as much as Siri.
In this sense, Amazon has decided to go a step further. Users of Echo speakers and other home automation devices of the firm are usually used to the voice of Alexa, and for this very reason has launched a new widget for iOS with which you can access the virtual assistant more easily whenever you need it.
Alexa launches a new widget for the iPhone: Amazon wants you to forget about Siri
As we mentioned, recently the Amazon Alexa application for iOS has been updated, and the main novelty is that it now incorporates a new widget to be able to access the virtual assistant in a much faster way. In this way, you will not even have to find the application on your mobile to be able to ask a question.
In this case, the new widgets of the Alexa application adapt to the formats introduced with iOS 14, managing to integrate something else into the system. But nevertheless, they are only a small button with the text «Ask Alexa» that, when pressed, allows you to speak with said advisor, without added functions.
In this way, Amazon’s intentions are quite clear: they want users to focus much more on their ecosystem even though they have Apple products. And is that, at present, Alexa on the iPhone is not as powerful as Siri due to the limitations of the operating system, but the truth is that its integration with other Amazon products and services is still very interesting for many users.