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Cortana for iPhone is Now Faster and Freshly Redesigned

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Microsoft today updated Cortana for iPhone with a significant redesign that has been available to Android users since December. As noted by Paul Thurrott, version 2.0 of the app is more responsive with redesigned calling, texting, and reminders and more immersive full-page answers with quicker page transitions.

Cortana's mobile redesign launched on Android in December​

Cortana is Microsoft's equivalent of Siri for Windows PCs and smartphones, Xbox, iOS, and Android. The personal assistant enables users to ask questions, check the weather, schedule calendar appointments, set reminders, track packages, look up sports scores, and many other tasks that Siri is capable of.

Cortana is free on the App Store [Direct Link] for iPhone.

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iGeek2014 said:
It's just been released here in the U.K. I've got quite a strong regional accent that Siri struggles with 70% of the time; Cortana is much better at what I'm saying.
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That's very interesting. Have you tried to change the language setting for Siri?
 
I strongly felt that Siri on the Mac would revolutionize the platform interaction, but then they showed us the icon and my hopes were dashed.

And even though it's been with us for months, I never use it. I use Siri on my iPhone all the time, though. Mostly through "Hey Siri", so maybe that's what's missing from the Mac implementation.
 
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Microsoft today updated Cortana for iPhone with a significant redesign that has been available to Android users since December. As noted by Paul Thurrott, version 2.0 of the app is more responsive with redesigned calling, texting, and reminders and more immersive full-page answers with quicker page transitions.

Cortana's mobile redesign launched on Android in December​

Cortana is Microsoft's equivalent of Siri for Windows PCs and smartphones, Xbox, iOS, and Android. The personal assistant enables users to ask questions, check the weather, schedule calendar appointments, set reminders, track packages, look up sports scores, and many other tasks that Siri is capable of.

Cortana is free on the App Store [Direct Link] for iPhone.

Article Link: Cortana for iPhone is Now Faster and Freshly Redesigned
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Who uses Cortana on iOS?

Cortana on Xbox one is junk and that's an all Microsoft experience, no way I'm using it on a different platform.
 
I'd really like to know how many people use something like this when it can't be built-in. It just doesn't make sense to me. I know Siri needs a lot of work but most people aren't going to install and open an app to do something like this.
 
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fyun89 said:
Does anyone actually use Cortana on an iOS devices? Even Siri is cumbersome for me to use...
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I think you would be Surprised how many Siri users have Cortana. It's not as seamless to use as Siri, but they both serve different purposes and have their strengths/weaknesses. Cortana actually has a quicker response time than Siri, even though Siri appears slightly more detailed in the answers provided. Cortana also executes tasking well. Having both options to use nice to have an alternative.
 
Video is pretty, but god is that boring, how could you possibly entice people to your app with a video like that?
 
When I got a windows laptop the first thing I did was to disable Cortana and the microphone and put a sticker on the camera that is how much I trust microsoft.
 
I wish we could select which assistant to use via the settings app. Siri is just poor. I only recently deactivated her because the battery setting said Siri was using 60% of my battery for the day… I hadn't even used her that day!

Amazing Iceman said:
Cortana belongs to Halo, unless she's a real 3D Hologram.
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What's halo?
 
macduke said:
I'd really like to know how many people use something like this when it can't be built-in. It just doesn't make sense to me. I know Siri needs a lot of work but most people aren't going to install and open an app to do something like this.
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If you have a Windows PC, Being able to sync reminders is huge. If you use Microsoft's services, it's like Google Now, but with your Microsoft data instead of Google. I will admit it does more on Android though.
 
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