Auri Chat on iPhone: Visual, Interactive Answers

When Chat is the right surface

The keyboard is for finishing text where you already are. Chat is for work that needs a conversation, a structure, or a screen you can navigate.

• Turn a vague idea into a plan with steps you can check off.
• Compare options with stats you can scan instead of re-reading a paragraph.
• Review a draft with a persona built for editing, then paste the result into Mail.
• Ask questions about an attached PDF without leaving the app.

The rule of thumb is what you do next. When the next action is sending a sentence, stay in the keyboard. When the next action is working something out, open Chat.

Personas and engines

Two settings decide the feel of a reply more than any clever prompt does.

1. Chat type or persona. About 18 options. Use a specialist persona when the job is narrow, such as Content Editor for tightening prose, and a general chat while you are still exploring.
2. Engine. Two engines ship in the app. The Visual engine builds interactive answers: recipes with steps, comparisons, charts, forms, and similar UI. Use it when you would otherwise ask the model to “make a table” or “give me steps.”

Change both before you rewrite the question five times. A weak answer is often the wrong persona or the wrong engine, not a bad prompt.

Memory, voice, and documents

Three extras make Chat useful day to day without turning it into a second Notes app.

• Memory. Cross-chat memory can recall preferences and facts you shared earlier. Disable it when you want a clean slate or when the topic should not follow you.
• Voice. Speak into Chat the same way you speak into the keyboard when your hands are busy. Clean the ask once, then send.
• Attachments. Drop in a PDF or DOCX, or scan a page, then ask for a summary, a quote, or a checklist. Retrieval is built for that loop.

Chat can also create images or files (PDF, CSV, Markdown, JSON) when you ask. Treat those as drafts you verify before you share them.

A five-minute first run

1. Open Auri → Chat.
2. Pick a persona that matches the job, not the default out of habit.
3. Switch to the Visual engine.
4. Ask for something structured: a weekly plan, a product comparison, or a recipe with steps.
5. Tap through the response, then ask one follow-up that changes a constraint.

If the Visual answer is clearer than a text wall would have been, keep Visual as the default for planning work. Leave the text engine for short Q&A.

Privacy and product boundaries

Chat uses network AI. That is separate from keyboard Full Access, and separate again from Auri Voice on Mac, which can keep recognition and cleanup on-device by default.

• Do not paste secrets into Chat that you would not paste into another cloud assistant.
• Turn memory off when the topic is sensitive or temporary.
• For private Mac drafting, use Auri Voice. For private English transcription on phone when available, switch the transcription engine to On-Device.

The three surfaces carry the same brand and run different pipelines, so pick the one that matches both the job and the sensitivity of the text.

Getting better answers without prompt tricks

Most weak answers come from a missing constraint rather than a badly worded question. Before you rewrite the prompt a fourth time, add the detail the model could not have guessed.

1. Say who it is for. A plan for your manager and a plan for yourself are different documents.
2. Give the shape you want. Five steps, a table, a two-paragraph note. The Visual engine handles this well, because structure is what it is built to produce.
3. Name the constraint that matters. Budget, deadline, reading level, word count, or the tool you already use.
4. Paste the real material. An actual draft or an attached file beats a description of it.

Follow-ups are cheaper than restarts. Change one variable, ask again, and keep the version you liked instead of opening a fresh conversation that has to relearn everything.

When Chat is the wrong tool

Chat is a conversation surface, and some jobs are worse for being conversational.

• A quick reply in another app. Switching to Auri and back costs more than the keyboard tools would have.
• A document you need to keep and edit. That belongs in Smart Notes, where it saves, syncs, and exports.
• Anything with facts you cannot check. Dates, prices, and legal or medical specifics still need a source, and an interactive layout can make a wrong number look more official than it is.
• Confidential material. Chat runs on the network, so treat it like any other cloud assistant.

Used for the right jobs, Chat removes the loop where you leave your phone, open a browser, paste something in, and come back. That loop is the real cost it takes out of your day.

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