Alexa App: How to Set It Up on Android or iPhone
Install Amazon's Alexa app from Google Play or the App Store, then use the three-line menu at the lower right for Routines, Reminders, Alarms and Timers, Lists, Skills and Settings.
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AI summaryAs of June 2022, Amazon's Alexa app for Android and iPhone is installed from Google Play or the Apple App Store and used to customize Alexa across all supported devices.
The Alexa app's three-line menu offers Routines, Reminders, Alarms and Timers, Lists and Notes, Skills and Games, Settings and See More, and Your Skills shows installed skills.
The Alexa app supports commands such as asking the time, latest news, weather, a timer, shopping list items and a seven-minute workout, and works with Kindle and Audible.
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Amazon's artificially intelligent voice assistant Alexa is very popular as more and more useful Alexa skills emerge every day. Today, you will find it in robots and vacuum cleaners, not to mention the thousands of third-party apps that use Alexa for voice recognition. Voice search features were once limited to a few flagship smartphones, but the Alexa app somehow brings them to many Android devices and the iPhone.
How Can You Use Amazon's Alexa App on Your Smartphone?
How Do You Set Up Alexa on Android or iPhone?
You can install Amazon's Alexa app through the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store and customize how Alexa works across all your supported devices. If you have never used an Alexa-enabled device before, it is worth spending a few minutes customizing it. To access the following, tap the three-line menu icon in the lower right corner of the screen:
- Routines: Alexa lets you set up a series of actions to run at certain times or under certain conditions, so with a single command you can turn on the lights, open a radio station, turn on the heating and take other actions. The app suggests featured sequences such as "Alexa, good morning" and "Alexa, I'm home".
- Reminders: You can set reminders for meetings or appointments at certain times or days, or ask Alexa to remind you to do something regularly, such as taking a pill every morning.
- Alarms and Timers: You can add an alarm directly from the app, or manage the alarms and timers you set using your Alexa-enabled device - for example, you can cancel a timer or make adjustments to it.
- Lists and Notes: Here you can see the items you added (by voice command) to your Amazon shopping and to-do lists from the Alexa app.
- Skills and Games: You can browse, enable and manage thousands of third-party apps that extend Alexa's functionality across categories such as Business and Finance, Food and Drink, Health and Fitness and many more. See which ones you have installed by tapping the Your Skills button in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Settings: This menu lets you set your profile, your location and your preferences such as Music and Podcasts, TV and Video, Sports, Reminders, Photos, Notifications and more.
- See More: Select this to open a drop-down menu with other options you can set up, including Find, Workout, Things to Try and Plans, which let you create personalized skills.
You can tap the three-line menu icon and select Settings to review your various Alexa-enabled devices and set preferences for them, such as names as well as locations, time zones and temperature and distance units of measurement.
What Can You Do With Alexa on a Smartphone?
The Alexa app can tell you the time, give a weather report, or provide a daily sports and news briefing from NPR, CNN, the Associated Press and more. Some of the commands Alexa supports:
- Alexa, what time is it?
- Alexa, what's the latest news?
- Alexa, flip a coin.
- Alexa, how many pounds is 10 dollars?
- Alexa, what is 15 times 32?
- Alexa, what's the weather like outside today?
- Alexa, set a timer for [X] minutes.
- Alexa, add milk to my shopping list.
- Alexa, what's on my calendar?
- Alexa, start a seven-minute workout.
- Alexa, tell [your child's name] a bedtime story.
The Alexa app is compatible with Amazon's Kindle and Audible services. If you ask "Alexa, read my Kindle book", you will hear an audiobook recording or a text-to-speech transcription of the latest additions to your Amazon library. Asking "Alexa, read my audiobook" asks the assistant to start or resume any audiobook you purchased from Audible.
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How Do You Set Up Alexa on Android or iPhone?
You can install Amazon's Alexa app through the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store and customize how Alexa works across all your supported devices. If you have never used an Alexa-enabled device before, it is worth spending a few minutes customizing it. To access the following, tap the three-line menu icon in the lower right corner of the screen: You can tap the three-line menu icon and select Settings to review your various Alexa-enabled devices and set preferences for them, such as names as well as locations, time zones and temperature and distance units of measurement.
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The Alexa app can tell you the time, give a weather report, or provide a daily sports and news briefing from NPR, CNN, the Associated Press and more. Some of the commands Alexa supports: The Alexa app is compatible with Amazon's Kindle and Audible services. If you ask "Alexa, read my Kindle book", you will hear an audiobook recording or a text-to-speech transcription of the latest additions to your Amazon library. Asking "Alexa, read my audiobook" asks the assistant to start or resume any audiobook you purchased from Audible.
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