Learn how to use Microcosft Copilot on iOS and iOS

Microsoft Copilot for iOS and iPadOS

AI assistants provide help to get work completed quicker by offering you with solutions which you submit to them within the type of prompts – questions you ask them in textual content or voice kind, which they reply to by replying with data, pictures, films, or different media.

Most text-based or voice-based AI assistants are known as chatbots. Utilizing these apps you possibly can kind or converse a immediate to the chatbot and it responds, often inside a couple of seconds.

Microsoft’s chatbot is known as Copilot. It will possibly offer you textual content, generate pictures (Generative AI, or GenAI), provide help to get organized or prepare dinner, look issues up or find issues for you, play music, and even write code.

We have already lined most of Copilot’s interior workings, options, and pricing in a earlier article on Copilot for the Mac, so we can’t repeat the identical particulars right here.

As a substitute, we’ll take a look at Copilot working on iPhone and iPad, which you’ll obtain from the App Retailer in your iOS machine. At present, there is no Apple Watch or Apple TV model of Copilot, however these variations are rumored to be within the works.

Microsoft additionally has a devoted Copilot app web page on its web site.

In case you have a Microsoft account, you possibly can log into it utilizing the Copilot app, and in case you do, it can keep in mind all of your previous prompts, and use them to raised formulate solutions sooner or later.

However even in case you do not use a Microsoft account, Copilot remains to be extremely helpful. There is a free tier, a paid tier, and an Enterprise tier.

To get began with Copilot in your iOS machine, run the App Retailer app in your machine, search on “Copilot” and when it exhibits up, obtain it to your machine.

Working it is so simple as tapping it in your machine’s Dwelling Display screen.

Beginning Copilot on iOS.

On working it for the primary time, you will be greeted with a couple of explanations and a Proceed button. Click on it and you will come to the primary Copilot window.

If you happen to do not have already got Location Providers turned on within the Settings app in your iOS machine, you will be prompted to show it on. You would possibly need to – Copilot makes use of your location for issues corresponding to instructions, close by locations, climate, and extra.

However even in case you do not Copilot will nonetheless work because it has a backend service through Microsoft’s Bing which is aware of the right way to find nearly all the pieces.

Location Providers immediate.

When you’re previous the introductory screens, you will see the primary Copilot window. There’s a sign-in button within the higher left nook, in case you have not already completed so.

There is a small menu button within the higher proper nook, which helps you to reset the chat to a default state so you can begin a brand new dialog. You’re additionally proven a number of predefined immediate buttons within the heart of the window.

On the backside of the window is the immediate textual content entry area, a digicam button, and a microphone button.

Within the heart of the primary window is a Use GPT-4 button which helps you to toggle GPT-4 on or off.

You can too faucet the blue New Chat button within the decrease left nook subsequent to the immediate area to begin a brand new chat. If you happen to faucet the mic button you possibly can problem your prompts by talking into your machine.

Copilot’s predominant window on iPad.

After issuing your immediate, Copilot connects to the Microsoft Bing backend servers the place AI works to course of your request. Often inside a couple of seconds, you will get a response.

In case you have the $20 paid Copilot Professional subscription and are logged in to your Microsoft account, Copilot’s responses shall be each quicker and extra detailed.

After a response is returned, you possibly can ask Copilot extra questions associated to the present matter, and it’ll additional refine its solutions. If you wish to ask Copilot one thing on a brand new matter, it is best to reset the immediate first, though you do not have to.

You can too copy solutions from Copilot and save them elsewhere – within the Apple Notes app, for instance.

AI chatbots promise to avoid wasting customers an enormous period of time, and return info practically immediately that will in any other case take for much longer to lookup manually. Having Copilot at your disposal is like having an clever private assistant within the palm of your hand.