It appears that Perplexity has made progress with the Hey Perplexity wake-up phrase for the Galaxy S26 series after dumping the “Hey Plex”.

Perplexity app version 2.81.2 app insights from AndroidAuthority revealed a new wake-up voice setup screen mentioning “Hey Perplexity.

“Say Hey Perplexity to open the assistant, even when the screen is off,” found in the setup, changing from Hey Plex mentioned in the past. The assisting screenshot shows the setup screen with instructions.

There are no other details available about the upgrade and the reason behind this change, as promised by the company.

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Prior to the launch of the Galaxy S26 series, Samsung announced Perplexity integration with the new phones and Hey Plex wake-up phrase to trigger the voice assistant. This functionality is the same as the Google Gemini, which comes as the default AI agent for the S26 series users.

The S26 series comes with the pre-installed Perplexity app, and initially, it had a setup process for Hey Plex. Early test shows that the feature was working better than expected. However, it’s not as fluent as Gemini.

Despite this, Perplexity unpromptly removed the feature from the latest S-series phones. Soon after, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas announced that the feature would be renamed to Hey Perplexity without confirming a rollout date. Since then, users have been waiting for this wake-up phrase transition.

The latest insight shows that the lineup may soon receive Hey Perplexity with a new app update.

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