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Amazon announced Monday that it is starting to deploy a redesigned Alexa app for Apple iPhones, tablets, and phones running on Google’s Android platform and its own Fire tablets.
While Alexa has a maximum relationship with Amazon’s living-room devices, such as Echo and Fire TV, the virtual assistant can also be available on other platforms, providing many of the same features as Siri and Apple’s Google Assistant.
But the existing Alexa app is difficult to use because it provides irrelevant random activations from the home screen and forces users to navigate menus to locate other settings.
This will be fixed in the update, which according to Amazon will first put its maximum functions used. In the new app, you can see your reminders, a Spotify playlist you’ve listened to, your shopping list, an upcoming alarm, and an Audible eBook that you’ve started, for example. This means that the screen in your Alexa home will be different from someone else’s.
Amazon also moves the Alexa button from the back of the app up, where it’s less difficult to find. Reminders, routines, skills, settings and other features move from the menu, where they were harder to find, to a new “More” button at the back of the screen.
Adjustments can cause Amazon fans to stick to the app on all devices.
Amazon said it expects it to be available to all existing users until the end of August.
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