You can now talk to Amazon’s Alexa hands-free on mobile

Amazon will soon roll out a new ‘hands-free’ option in the latest update of the Alexa app. The new feature is comparable to using Alexa on an Amazon Echo device.

Users can now have Alexa cater to their needs, be it playing music, receiving weather updates, or calling someone on their contact list, simply via voice control. Earlier, users were required to tap the blue Alexa button at the bottom of the screen to engage the virtual assistant.

To begin the hands-free experience, users can ask their device’s inbuilt virtual assistant, Google Assistant for Android and Siri for Apple to launch the Alexa app.