Amazon has expanded the usability of its Alexa calling and messaging via the Alexa app to tablets, allowing iPad owners to be able to make and receive free calls to and from friends and family.
Amazon has expanded the usability of its Alexa calling and messaging via the Alexa app to tablets, allowing iPad owners to be able to make and receive free calls to and from friends and family members who own an Echo device from the retailer's growing range.
Alexa Calling and Messaging has been available for some time through the Alexa app, but has previously only been limited to smartphones like the iPhone, Pocket-Lintreports. The change now means the same calling functionality will also be available on the iPad version of the app, giving users another way to place the calls without needing to go through dedicated Alexa hardware.
The policy change also applies to Android tablets, as well as Amazon's own Fire tablet range. While the Fire tablets can place calls completely by verbal prompts, iPad users need to open the Alexa app and manually select the contact to call.
- How to Remotely Control and Access Amazon Alexa. If you want to use Alexa without having to be in the same room, you're in luck. You can interact with your Echo device from afar to chat with Alexa.
- Amazon Alexa is more ubiquitous than ever and is now available in over 42 countries worldwide – and in a host of languages. After initially only being supported in the US, Canada, UK, India, Japan and Germany, Alexa can now work in far less obvious places, from the Cayman Islands to Cambodia and plenty in between.
Users will need to synchronize their contacts with the Alexa app before asking to call specific people through the service. https://bestufiles666.weebly.com/tyme-2-1-3-2.html. To place calls, users have to navigate to the Conversations menu in the app, select the Contacts icon to view a list of Alexa-to-Alexa contacts, select their intended contact, then to press the Call or Video icon. How do i transfer vhs tapes to my mac.
The iPad app is also compatible with Drop In, the feature where permitted contacts can initiate a call with an Echo device that is automatically connected. While the Alexa app can start the call, it is not currently possible for other Alexa users to drop into the iOS app.
The Alexa app is a free download weighing in at 158.8 megabytes, and is compatible with iPhones, iPads, and the iPod touch running iOS 9.0 or later.
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The change to the Alexa app for tablets follows after another recent change to the digital assistant. On Friday, Amazon introduced a new 'follow-up' feature that lets users ask multiple queries, without repeating the 'Alexa' wake word before each question.
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If Alexa's 'butt dialing' this week has made you paranoid about your Echo, you're not alone, but luckily there's a way to prevent inadvertent eavesdropping by the smart speaker. As one family of Echo owners discovered, to their horror, Alexa can mis-hear commands and accidentally share a private conversation with a random contact. There's a way to prevent that completely, but there are a few steps you need to know first.
Disappointingly, while Amazon makes it exceedingly easy to turn on Alexa communications and synchronize your contacts with the virtual assistant, actually disabling it and deleting your contacts is a lot tougher. When you enable Alexa calling, it automatically sucks the contacts stored on your phone or tablet and synchronizes them with Amazon's system. Periodically, Alexa will check your address book and update its records accordingly.
What it doesn't offer, though, is an easy way to turn it off. From the Alexa app, it at first looks as though you can go through each Echo smart speaker and disable communications individually. However that option is only available if you've enabled FreeTime mode, Amazon's system to make Alexa safer for kids to use. If you don't have that enabled, you can't turn off communications.
There's a halfway measure to managing Alexa calls and messages, and that's the block tool. It's not especially easy to find, but you can individually block contacts. You'll need to open the Alexa app, choose 'Contacts' from the menu, and then tap the '…' button in the top right corner. That reveals the 'Block Contacts' option; tap it, and you can choose which contacts to block or, later on, unblock if you prefer.
Still, it's worth noting that even if you block a contact, you're still susceptible to 'butt dialing' with Alexa. Blocking people in the app prevents them from being able to call you, or send you messages. However it doesn't stop you from calling them – which means if Alexa mis-hears and decides you want to place a call or send a voice message, there's nothing stopping it.
So, what if you want to disable Alexa calls and messaging altogether? Bizarrely, the only way to do that currently is to actually speak to an Amazon support representative and request that they turn the system off on your account.
Alexa Calling From Amazon
The change to the Alexa app for tablets follows after another recent change to the digital assistant. On Friday, Amazon introduced a new 'follow-up' feature that lets users ask multiple queries, without repeating the 'Alexa' wake word before each question.
AppleInsider has affiliate partnerships and may earn commission on products purchased through affiliate links. These partnerships do not influence our editorial content.
If Alexa's 'butt dialing' this week has made you paranoid about your Echo, you're not alone, but luckily there's a way to prevent inadvertent eavesdropping by the smart speaker. As one family of Echo owners discovered, to their horror, Alexa can mis-hear commands and accidentally share a private conversation with a random contact. There's a way to prevent that completely, but there are a few steps you need to know first.
Disappointingly, while Amazon makes it exceedingly easy to turn on Alexa communications and synchronize your contacts with the virtual assistant, actually disabling it and deleting your contacts is a lot tougher. When you enable Alexa calling, it automatically sucks the contacts stored on your phone or tablet and synchronizes them with Amazon's system. Periodically, Alexa will check your address book and update its records accordingly.
What it doesn't offer, though, is an easy way to turn it off. From the Alexa app, it at first looks as though you can go through each Echo smart speaker and disable communications individually. However that option is only available if you've enabled FreeTime mode, Amazon's system to make Alexa safer for kids to use. If you don't have that enabled, you can't turn off communications.
There's a halfway measure to managing Alexa calls and messages, and that's the block tool. It's not especially easy to find, but you can individually block contacts. You'll need to open the Alexa app, choose 'Contacts' from the menu, and then tap the '…' button in the top right corner. That reveals the 'Block Contacts' option; tap it, and you can choose which contacts to block or, later on, unblock if you prefer.
Still, it's worth noting that even if you block a contact, you're still susceptible to 'butt dialing' with Alexa. Blocking people in the app prevents them from being able to call you, or send you messages. However it doesn't stop you from calling them – which means if Alexa mis-hears and decides you want to place a call or send a voice message, there's nothing stopping it.
So, what if you want to disable Alexa calls and messaging altogether? Bizarrely, the only way to do that currently is to actually speak to an Amazon support representative and request that they turn the system off on your account.
You can do that by calling customer service – the number is 1-877-375-9365 – giving them your account details, and then asking them to turn the system off. https://supplessrolte1980.mystrikingly.com/blog/screenshot-area-on-mac. Alternatively, you can have Amazon make the call to you itself. For that, you have to be logged into your Amazon account in your browser and then go to the Customer Help page.
https://yxbj.over-blog.com/2020/12/doggyandi-stardew-valley-1-4-4.html. 1. Choose 'Amazon Devices and Kindle Apps'
2. Choose your Echo device (or whatever other device you use with Alexa)
3. Choose 'Something Else' for 'Issue Details'
4. You'll automatically be taken to 'Section 3'
5. Select 'Phone,' and a representative will call you
6. Ask them to disable 'Alexa Calling and Messaging' for you
Amazon certainly isn't the only company which makes it easy for people to share their data and enable a service, then tricky for them to delete that data and deactivate it, but that doesn't make this Alexa rigamarole any more palatable. We're hoping the negative backlash this past week acts as a prompt to contacts and calling management being added to the Alexa app, where it really ought to be.
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