Controlling Amazon Echo from anywhere with your Phone

You can control your Amazon Echo with the help of your phone with the help of Alexa app on any Android or iOS device. Let’s check out how you can do this.

If your Amazon Echo is unable to hear you from other room or you want to control your smart speaker while you are not at home, then you can do this with the help of Amazon app on iOS and a third party handy app for Android. One of the most wonderful and important feature of your Amazon Echo is far field recognition technology. With this feature, it can hear your voice even from all across the room while the music is playing. But the main obstacle is walls and if you will try to control it from other room then it will not be able to hear you. Even you can command Echo when you are not at home.

But now the shopping app of Amazon for iOS will allow you to give your Echo commands via phone. This will also help you as it will reduce the need of voice remote This app will communicate with the Alexa app on your device and help you in controlling your Echo device just with the help of Alexa on your phone. The existing microphone button in the Alexa app is used by this feature, that is used for voice search.  But this feature is not available for Android devices, but for Android there is a third-app alternate. Here’s how you can do a quick set up and then use this feature or you can also take Amazon Echo Help:

How to Control Alexa using iPhone?

• Firstly, you will need to install the Amazon app for iOS, if you don’t have any app. After this open the app and click on the microphone button which is at the right corner of the screen.
• Click on the option of Allow Microphone Access which is at the bottom.
• Click on OK for giving the app, the permission for using the microphone of your iPhone.
• After this, you can start giving commands to Alexa starting with by clicking on the microphone button and then you will need to say your command. Here there is no need to say the word Alexa before your command. Whenever the blur color bar at the bottom will light up, then it means that Alexa is listening to what you are saying.

How to Control Alexa using an Android Phone?

This feature that we used above in iPhone is not available for the Amazon app’s Android version. But there is a third party that can be used known as Ubi, that you can help you in getting the same functionality that you can have in iPhone. Follow these steps for controlling Alexa on Android device or you can take Amazon Echo Support:

• Firstly, download the app and after downloading the app install it, open the app, and click on the option of Login with Amazon which is at the bottom.
• After this you will be taken to the web browser and there you will need to sign in to your Amazon account.
• On the next screen that will come, you will need to click on the option of I Agree which will be at the bottom of the screen.
• After this, you will be taken back to the Ubi app again and there you can start using Alexa quickly from anywhere. You will need to simply click on big round button once and then you can say your command. There will no need of saying Alexa before your command. Alexa will respond you on the speaker of your phone.

But there is one downside of this app as these kinds of apps are not much reliable and they are not much quick to use like the voice remote control, where you just need to pick it up and say your command. In the case of any query or you need any information, you can navigate to www Amazon Com Echo setup.