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This technology is still in its nascent stage, but AI tools tend to progress rather rapidly these days, and we've already seen previews of browsers that can do your browsing for you, and bots that will find a new apartment for you and your roommates. These agents are going to be available very soon.

Now we have an early AI agent for the iPhone, built by coder Rounak Jain (as reported by 9to5Google). It's not available as an app, but you can test it out if you're prepared to put in a bit of work and spend a few cents on OpenAI credits.

Our phone agent future?

The tool connects to OpenAI models, so you can tap into the same kind of resources you would get with ChatGPT, besides being able to take action on your iPhone. This can be particularly handy when you need to create text in an email, message, or document, which can be generated with a quick prompt.

Commands can be issued via voice or typed text, and a notification gets displayed when each task is completed—you can actually reply to this notification with follow-up commands (to turn the flashlight off, for example).

In my testing, the PhoneAgent was occasionally buggy and always quite slow, but that's to be expected when you're testing early-stage software like this. On the whole, it carried out my commands as intended: I got it to send a message to my friend Beth expressing how much I was looking forward to seeing her, and managed to take a photo with the Camera and open it up in the Photos editing interface with a single command.

I got AI to tell Beth how much I was looking forward to seeing her. Credit: Lifehacker

If this is what Siri and Gemini eventually evolve into, I can see it making a significant difference: Imagine being able to check where your next meeting is and get directions there with a single command, or having AI book your car service while you're busy with something else. There are still a lot of hurdles to overcome, though—Jony Ive and Sam Altman, take note.

How to get it working

From GitHub Desktop, clone the PhoneAgent repository: Choose Clone a Repository from the Internet from the opening screen, or open the File menu and pick Clone Repository. Switch to the URL tab, paste " github.com/rounak/PhoneAgent.git" into the URL field, pick a destination folder on your Mac, then click Clone.

You need to get PhoneAgent installed in Xcode on a Mac. Credit: Lifehacker

After your iPhone restarts, open the drop-down menu at the top of Xcode on macOS (to the right of PhoneAgent), and pick your iPhone from the list. Then, select PhoneAgent at the top of the left-hand navigation pane, switch to the Signing & Capabilities tab, and use Add Account to enter your Apple credentials. With that done, choose your name from the Team drop-down under Signing & Capabilities. You also need to change the Bundle identifier to something unique.

Next, select PhoneAgentUITests.swift from the left-hand pane, and look for the "func testLoop()" entry in the code (just a little way down). If you hover over the code line label to the immediate left, it should turn into a play button: Click this to run PhoneAgent on your iPhone.

Choose your iPhone as the app destination. Credit: Lifehacker

You can then start entering commands by tapping the mic button or tapping the text at the bottom of the screen and telling the agent what you want it to do.

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