Use cases
Everyday tasks on your own phone
You have a phone and a Mac, and a small job that lives on the phone: look something up in an app, work out a sum, set a timer, add a thing to a cart. Silan’s chat takes the job in plain words and does it on your iPhone while you watch the live picture. The Simple way needs no Xcode and no Apple account: Silan acts as a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and takes the picture over the cable. Anything that pays, sends, posts or deletes stops and asks you first.
A worked example
Section titled “A worked example”Your iPhone is plugged in and set up the Simple way. In a new chat you send:
Find a desk lamp under $50 on MegaMart. Then check the Budget Tracker in CloudDocs to see how much of this month's budget is left after buying it. If I can afford it, add the lamp to my MegaMart cart and tell me the lamp, its price and what's left.
The chat shows Working · 0:08 · 1 step · Opening MegaMart and the live picture on the right shows MegaMart open and desk lamp typed into its search. The agent finds a lamp at $35.99, opens CloudDocs, opens the Budget Tracker document and reads $145 left. It goes back to MegaMart, taps Add to cart and opens the cart to check. The answer card names the lamp and its price, says you can afford it, and says $109.01 will be left. The work line folds to Worked for 2 min 11 s · 13 steps.
Smaller tasks are quicker: Open Calculator and work out 12 × 7. ends in 26 seconds and 6 steps with the answer 84, and Open Clock, start the stopwatch, and record one lap. records Lap 1. When a task names an app the agent has not used in this chat, a card asks first, with For this chat or Clock for 1 hour.
- Plug the iPhone in, press Set up, pick the Simple way and follow its four steps (Install and quickstart).
- Open the phone in Silan. In the chat panel, type the task and press Return (Agent tasks).
- Watch the steps and the live picture. Each step shows what the agent did and why (Live view).
- Answer an ask card when one shows: Just this once, For this chat or App for 1 hour (Safety).
- Take the phone over with Take over when you want to do a part yourself, then Hand back.
- Press Control Option Command Period to stop everything at once.
A task that passed before replays from its cache the next time you send the same words on the same phone, with no model call. A finished chat can be kept as a flow and run again later (Flows).
What is supported today
Section titled “What is supported today”| What | Status |
|---|---|
| Short tasks in plain words on your iPhone with the Simple way | Supported, proved by the owner |
| Tasks that pay, send, post or delete ask you first | Supported on made-up test apps. Not run on the owner’s real accounts |
| Passwords from the Vault or a password manager, never seen by the agent | Supported (Sign-ins) |
| Faster repeats from the replay cache, a finished chat kept as a flow | Supported |
| A daily spending cap on model cost | Supported |
| Tasks on a schedule while you are away | In testing (Scheduled smoke tests) |
| Let the phone sleep when idle | In testing |
| Tasks with the phone unplugged | Not on the Simple way, which needs the cable for the picture. The Developer way works over Wi-Fi after the first cable link |
Speed, measured by a Silan worker on an iPhone 11 on the Simple way: the first task after Silan starts waits about 13.5 seconds for the phone’s helper, and a 7-task bench had a median of 88 seconds per task.