Cortana Reviews – Page 12
4/5 rating based on 241 reviews. Read all reviews for Cortana for iPhone.
Cortana is free iOS app published by Microsoft Corporation
Excellent cross platform digital voice assistant
VenkataRam
Works external will on my Windows work station iPhone and surface pro. This wonderful cross platform ai based voice assistant helps me organize lot of things on my daily life.
Superior speech recognition
watching trms
Much of what Cortana does better is because of that. Her jokes are funnier.
Solamente en inglés
alilorenz1
La App no está disponible en español, únicamente en inglés, chino y japonés. Que mal. Ojalá la pongan en español en algún momento. En mi laptop está en español y es genial.
Almost there. Outlook 365 users handicapped.
Agent619
365 User. THE BAD 1). Cortana is really good but the bad part about her is that she is unreliable for 3rd party subbed calendar events. She doesn’t detect subscribed calendars. So let’s say you subbed to a feed of your work cal on outlook. You want Cortana to display that calendar. Not just the calendar copied and pasted but a calendar that is subscribed and reflects the changes that are made to it whenever they occur. This doesn’t happen. So your left in the dark for any subscribed calendars. 2.). Wunderlist integration almost works but fails. I’ve tried using the connected services for wunderlist. The problem is, cortana reflects changes to wunderlist all day events (tasks that have due dates and reminders) after a couple of hours. There’s not way to increase the sync time. This renders the to do list and Cortana useless in this regard because the calendar becomes inaccurate. If you’re trying to work on tasks, you end up seeing the changes hours later on Cortana. This just can’t work when your knocking out tasks right now. 3.) outlook app has a better plug in for wunderlist. Outlook is able to gather the changes from wunderlist events and reflect them in nearly real-time. It’s kind of sad that the outlook app has a better plug in than the Cortana app. Especially when they are both designed to work with wunderlist. In fact, it was because of Cortana that I discovered wunderlist. I was using tasks in Cortana and saw that she suggested a link of accounts to wunderlist. I enjoyed wunderlist but was ultimately disappointed because the events didn’t display accurately. 4.). Cortana only creates events through apples calendars. She doesn’t create outlook calendar events even though she can read display them. This means that you have to link outlook.com to your Apple calendar. It becomes a detailed process of enabling 2 way factor on apples and end generating codes, installing an iCloud app and so much more just to be able to see that calendar on outlook. Because it’ll display fine on your phones Cortana. But when you switch over to the laptop you’ll see nothing of those phone created Cortana events unless you synced to apples calendars. Really a pain because you end up having to go through Apples calendar in Microsoft’s ecosystem. To make matters worse, cortana can’t even create an event for outlook even if the outlook mobile app is installed on the same phone. It’s like the two don’t even know each other. There’s no add-in on outlooks side. Cortana simply can’t make outlook events from the phone. Making her near useless for events. 5.). Reminders are a pain to navigate through when they are overdue. Viewing the list of reminders really doesn’t give you too much filtering options. There’s no way to organize them by folder or tag. It’s just a long list of reminders that require attention. In other words, if you miss your reminder today, good look trying to find it if you’ve made other reminders later in the week. They merge into a sea of reminders. No filter makes it difficult to embrace. The good part is that you can work around this by completing reminders on time. But this is where the worst part is... 6.) REMINDERS DO NOT DISPLAY ON OUTLOOK.COM. There is no option to toggle this on or off. This means that after you’ve gone through all the pain and suffering of creating reminders for your day. Your hop on the laptop and guess what? No reminders to be seen. Of course they display on the windows 10 built in calendar. But that calendar lacks the functionality of outlooks calendar. With Microsoft charging a premium for office 365 and also being in the race for virtual assistant dominance, you’d think the two would recognize one another. NOPE. Outlook 2016 (current office 365 outlook) does not recognize or display any Cortana reminders on its calendar. This makes Cortana a disappointment for outlook users. THE GOOD 1.) voice commanded reminders are awesome and display in chronological order in the my day tab. It even gets its own Checkbox. Almost perfect, if... 2.) MYDAY is the best feature by far. It’s SO good that the mobile version of Cortana outshines the desktop version. Cortana mobile is tidy. Myday is easy to see. Myday option isn’t even available on desktop. Only short previews of the day. Cortana mobile is better. The lack of consistency for subscribed calendar displays holds this feature back though. Also forcing you to create Apple calendar events hurts. 3.) VOICE commanded events work like a charm. Scheduling events is EASY with Cortana. If your fine with going through all the work of synchronizing Apple to your outlook account, you’ll like it. Troubles occur when you need to switch platforms. Because ironically, Apple doesn’t display its own calendar events on outlook for Mac. I use a pc and it’s fine but I was appalled that Cortana on the iPhone (I use a 6S PLUS) was forced to create Apple calendar events. Causing me to sync on outlooks end for PC. Yet if I logged into outlook on my Mac...none of the Cortana events made on my phone through Apple would display because they are “iCal” format and incompatible with outlook for Mac. This could’ve all been avoided if Cortana just used calendars from the outlook account I’m signed into. HEADACHE. 4.). PICTURE REMINDERS! Microsoft ink can display a picture from the pc that you drew as a cortana reminder! Literally the ONLY reason I’m even using Cortana right now. It’s her only role she can be trusted with. 5.) location based reminders! These are awesome. They’ve been a little hit or miss. But being able to make one is excellent. I can create a reminder from my pc and have it show up on my phone when I reach Xyz location. The problem is that the range for detection isn’t an option. I can’t set the reminder to trigger on arrival or departure. Also, there’s no way to change the radius of when this reminder should trigger. Apple location based reminders have MAST
Cortana vs iPhone
Dutch Mr.V
After weeks of getting the wrong information on My new iPhone X downloaded the Cortona app for iOS, It was like renewing a old friendship!