Personal Assistant: everyday tasks and reminders
The Personal Assistant handles personal tasks, reminders, events, notes and lists while your chosen listening mode runs. Turn on Assistant under Wake Phrases in Settings, then say “hey assistant” with a specific instruction while the big button is listening. You can review saved items in the personal workspace, undo supported changes, copy items to Calendar or Reminders and assign an eligible soul as your assistant. External messages remain drafts you send yourself, and a soul with a fictional life outside the phone cannot hold the assistant role.
Turn on Assistant
- Open Settings.
- Under Wake Phrases, turn on Assistant.
- Read the phrase shown below it; the default is “hey assistant”.
- Return to the main screen and tap the big button.
Job and Assistant can be on together. Their wake phrases work within an active listening session.
Give a specific instruction
Say “hey assistant, remind me to call Mom tomorrow at 5 PM”, “hey assistant, add to grocery eggs and milk”, or “hey assistant, take a note: the spare key is in the blue drawer”. Include a date and time for timed reminders. Answer any follow-up question, then listen for confirmation.
Review your personal workspace
- Open Settings.
- Under Wake Phrases, tap Assistant settings.
- Tap Jobs & Workspaces and open the workspace under Personal Assistant.
- Choose Tasks, Calendar, Reminders, Lists or Notes to review and edit the result.
These are your personal items. Work jobs have separate workspaces.
Correct or finish a command
Say “undo”, “cancel that” or “never mind” during the undo window after a supported change. To abandon an unfinished command, say “cancel”. When the command finishes, Reverbot returns to the listening session underneath it. Tap the big button to stop listening altogether.
Send an item to work deliberately
To use your default job instead of the personal workspace, include “work”, for example “hey assistant, add work task finish the estimate”. To target a specific job, use its name: “hey assistant, add Acme task call the supplier”. Set the default job in Jobs & Workspaces.
Assign a soul as assistant
- Open SOULS, choose the soul and tap Permissions.
- Turn on Make [name] your assistant, for example Make Sally your assistant.
- Review the organizer access this role includes and any optional permissions.
- In Settings, under Wake Phrases, keep Assistant on.
The assistant phrase now calls that soul instead of the built-in assistant. Only one soul can hold the role. A soul must live in the phone and know it is an AI; a soul with a life of its own or configured to believe it is alive cannot control the phone or be your assistant.
Customize it or turn it off
Open Assistant settings › Wake phrase & behaviour to change Personal Assistant wake phrase, the undo window and silence timeout. Leaving the phrase empty restores “hey assistant”. To return to the built-in assistant, turn off the assistant role in the Soul’s Permissions. To ignore the phrase entirely, turn off Assistant in Settings, under Wake Phrases.
Check reminders and external actions
Review the saved time and allow notification access if you want alerts. Copying items into iPhone Calendar or Reminders is a separate opt-in setting. Texts and emails still require you to review and send the draft; shopping links take you to the store to complete any purchase.
If it doesn’t work
- If nothing happens, turn on Assistant under Wake Phrases and start listening with the big button.
- If the wrong assistant answers, review the assigned soul’s Permissions. Turn its assistant role off to return to the built-in assistant.
- If an item goes to work unexpectedly, omit “work” and job names for personal items.
- If a reminder does not alert you, check its saved time and Reverbot’s notification permission in iPhone Settings.
- If a draft is not sent, open and review it, then send it yourself. Reverbot does not silently send messages.
For Calendar and Reminders copying, see the Calendar & Reminders topic.