I tested iPhone AI voice assistants: here’s the best one
Published on: 2025-08-02 12:47:26
It’s been about a year since Apple announced Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024. Since then, Siri has received a visual refresh with its new rainbow animation, text-to-Siri support, visual intelligence, and image generation. Features like Genmoji are also available in iOS 18. However, the most critical aspects of Siri, like being conversational and having contextual awareness, are still missing. Meanwhile, AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity are leaps and bounds ahead of Siri in many ways. So, I wanted to put all three to the test to see who deserves to be your go-to voice assistant on the iPhone today. Here is what I found.
I highly recommend watching the video below to see all three in action. It will give you a better sense of accuracy and response speed for each assistant.
The setup
For this test, I used the free versions of all three assistants. I wanted to make it so anyone could try these out at any time and see how good they are out of the box.
I also had a few hunches g
... Read full article.