{"id":335522,"date":"2017-03-10T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/03\/10\/cortana-for-iphone-version-2\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T14:10:09","slug":"cortana-for-iphone-is-now-faster-and-freshly-redesigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/cortana-for-iphone-is-now-faster-and-freshly-redesigned\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortana for iPhone is Now Faster and Freshly Redesigned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body\" readability=\"51.126816380449\">Microsoft today updated <a href=\"http:\/\/appshopper.com\/productivity\/cortana\">Cortana for iPhone<\/a> with a significant redesign that has been available to Android users since December. As noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/mobile\/106616\/cortana-2-0-brings-new-ux-iphone\">Paul Thurrott<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yzfbGjAgky4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Cortana&#8217;s mobile redesign launched on Android in December<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cortana is Microsoft&#8217;s equivalent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/siri\/\">Siri<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appshopper.com\/productivity\/cortana\">Cortana<\/a> is free on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/app-store\/\">App Store<\/a> [<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/cortana\/id1054501703?mt=8\">Direct Link<\/a>] for iPhone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft today updated <a href=\"http:\/\/appshopper.com\/productivity\/cortana\">Cortana for iPhone<\/a> with a significant redesign that has been available to Android users since December. As noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/mobile\/106616\/cortana-2-0-brings-new-ux-iphone\">Paul Thurrott<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yzfbGjAgky4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><center><em>Cortana&#8217;s mobile redesign launched on Android in December<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nCortana is Microsoft&#8217;s equivalent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/siri\/\">Siri<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appshopper.com\/productivity\/cortana\">Cortana<\/a> is free on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/app-store\/\">App Store<\/a> [<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/cortana\/id1054501703?mt=8\">Direct Link<\/a>] for iPhone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/microsoft\/\">Microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/cortana\/\">Cortana<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/cortana-for-iphone-version-2.2036410\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=dP-oDqSBFy4:4tpfEQT4Pn0:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=dP-oDqSBFy4:4tpfEQT4Pn0:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/dP-oDqSBFy4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-335522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}