Everywhere

Jevie on your phone's key

Hold the side key on Android or press the iPhone's Action Button and Jevie listens, ready to answer about whatever is on your screen.

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Use it

Android

• hold the side key, or swipe up from a cornerJevie opens over your screen, listening
• what does this meantranslate thisis this a good priceAnswered about the screen, with what it names ringed
• how do I turn on dark mode hereSteps for the app you are in
• weather tomorrowremind me to call mom at 6Anything else, answered as in the app
• tap or swipe over wordsSelect them, then Ask or Copy
• circle any part of the screenJevie asks about it at once
• Quick Settings → Talk to JevieSay it, and the answer comes back as a notification; the app stays closed
• Hey Jevie … tone … what's on my calendarThe same, hands-free, once you turn it on in Settings

iPhone

• Action Button → Ask JevieJevie opens listening
• Action Button, Control Centre or Lock Screen → Talk to JevieSay it, and the answer shows in the Dynamic Island and on the lock screen; the app stays closed
• Hey Siri, ask Jevie · Back Tap · Control CentreThe same, on any iPhone
• What is Jevie working onShow Jevie workYour agents' work from Siri
• Shortcuts: Ask Jevie About, Show Jevie's Work, Open a Jevie Pin, Talk to Jevie

Set it up

• Android: Settings → Apps → Default apps → Digital assistant app → Jevie.
• Samsung: Settings → Advanced features → Side key → Press and hold → Digital assistant.
• iPhone 15 Pro or later: Settings → Action Button → Shortcut → Ask Jevie (opens the app), or on iOS 18 Action Button → Controls → Talk to Jevie (answers with the app closed).
• iPhone, iOS 18: Control Centre → + → Add a Control → Jevie → Talk to Jevie; the same control goes on the Lock Screen or the Action Button (Controls).
• Android: pull down Quick Settings → edit (the pencil) → drag Talk to Jevie in.
• Android, Hey Jevie: in Jevie, the menu → Settings → Voice → Hey Jevie. It is off until you turn it on; the first time it downloads its 17 MB listening model, once.
• Open Jevie once and let it listen, so the microphone (and on iPhone, speech recognition) is allowed; Talk to Jevie cannot ask for it with the app closed.

How it works

On Android, Jevie becomes the phone's assistant and sees the screen you held the key over, so this and here mean what you are looking at. It only uses the screen when your words point at it; otherwise it answers as the app does, through your Mac or Jevie Cloud. On iPhone the key opens Jevie listening.

While the sheet is up, the rings are drawn on a picture of the screen. Close the sheet with × or back, and if Jevie's hands are on (Phone hands, Settings › Accessibility), the rings stay on the app itself and follow what they ring as you scroll, so you can find the thing and tap it. They let every touch through.

They hide while another app is in front, and go when you tap a ringed thing, when the screen goes off, when you ask again, or after a minute and a half. Without the hands on, the rings go with the sheet.

Talk to Jevie is the same question without the app. The phone hears you itself, on the device where it can, and stops listening after a second and a half of quiet (a minute at most). Your words go to your Mac's Jevie as one sentence, the way the watch asks, and the short spoken answer comes back: on iPhone in a Live Activity, which shows Listening, then Asking your Mac, then the answer, and leaves the lock screen two minutes later; on Android in a Listening… notification that becomes the answer.

Tapping the answer opens Jevie.

Hey Jevie on Android starts that same turn by voice. With it on, the phone listens for the two words itself, with a small keyword-spotting model (sherpa-onnx) that runs on the phone; nothing it hears is kept or sent anywhere. When it hears them it plays a short tone, and what you say next is heard and asked exactly as with the tile.

Android lets only the phone's own preinstalled assistant listen for a wake word quietly, so Jevie listens the way any app may: while it is on, a Hey Jevie notification stays in the shade (with Turn off), the microphone indicator stays lit, and it uses some battery. It steps aside whenever something else uses the microphone (Jevie's own dictation, a call, a voice note) and pauses on battery saver or a low battery.

Limits

• The Jevie app only, not the home-screen page; Android 9 or later.
• iPhone: no picture of the screen and nothing ringed; Siri keeps the side button.
• Secure screens (banking, passwords) and the lock screen give no picture.
• The screen's picture and words go with your question to your Mac, or to Jevie Cloud when no Mac answers; selecting words is read on the phone.
• Talk to Jevie needs a paired Mac that answers; it does not fall back to Jevie Cloud. With none, the answer says so (Your Mac is not answering). It sends only your words, never the screen.
• Talk to Jevie on iPhone needs iOS 18; the Shortcuts list needs iOS 17.4. Answers are cut to a few lines; open Jevie for the whole one.
• Android: with the microphone not yet allowed or notifications off, the tile opens Jevie listening instead.
• Hey Jevie is Android only (iPhone apps cannot listen in the background), on 64-bit phones, and English. Say it, then wait for the tone: words said in the same breath are not heard. It can wake for a near sound-alike such as Hey Chevy.
• After the phone restarts or Jevie updates, Android does not let an app start listening by itself: a notification says so, and listening resumes the next time you open Jevie (or, with Jevie as the home screen, at once).

Where it's kept

More: phone and Windows.

In Jevie, help assistant key answers from this page as you type.

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Updated 7 November 2026 · Something wrong or missing? Tell us