Text Viro

Text Viro lets you talk to Viro from the messaging app you already use: iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, or Discord. Send a text and Viro answers right in the thread, with the same memory, personalization, and connected apps as in the Viro app.

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   Open Text Viro

   Select Text Viro in the sidebar, under Today.
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   Tick both boxes

   I agree to the Terms of Service, and I understand I’m texting an AI, not a person. The buttons stay off until both are ticked.
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   Select Connect next to your app

   For iMessage the button reads Text Viro. Your messaging app opens to finish.
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   Finish in the app

   Send the message that's already typed, tap Start, or approve Viro AI, depending on the app. Viro texts back, and the app shows Connected on the Text Viro page.

Each app has its own steps: iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord. Connecting uses a one-time code that lasts 15 minutes. If it runs out, go back to Text Viro and select the button again.

Anything you'd ask in the app. By text, Viro can:

• Answer questions, explain things, and help you write, plan, and brainstorm.
• Search the web, check the news and the weather, and work out numbers.
• Read the apps you've connected, such as your calendar, email, to-dos, and drives, to answer questions about them.
• Use your memory and personalization, and remember new things you tell it.

Creating images, documents, and designs, and adding or changing things in your connected apps, happen in the Viro app. Ask by text and Viro points you there.

• Short: Viro writes the way people text, in up to three messages. A long answer gives you the gist and ends with a link to the rest in the app.
• Photos and voice notes too: send a photo or a voice note and Viro answers it. For other files, use the app.
• Only when you write: Viro answers your messages. Apart from the confirmation when you connect, it doesn't text you first.

Yes. Each messaging app gets its own chat in your chat history, named iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, or Discord. On the Text Viro page, select the ⋯ menu next to a connected app and choose View chat in Viro. Select Open to jump back to the thread in the messaging app.

On the free plan, an answer may be followed by a separate message with a sponsored link, which your messaging app may show as a preview. It's always its own message, after Viro's answer, and it never changes what Viro says. There's no ad after an answer that used your health data. Paid plans have no ads, by text or in the app. See Why ads?

• Disconnect: on the Text Viro page, select the ⋯ menu next to the app and choose Disconnect. Viro stops reading and answering in that app. Your chat history stays in Viro until you delete it.
• Pause from your phone: on iMessage or WhatsApp, text STOP and Viro stays quiet. Text START to turn it back on.
• Connect again: select Connect on the Text Viro page. Viro picks up the same chat where you left off.

Each app connects to one Viro account at a time. Connecting the same Telegram account, Discord account, or phone number to a different Viro account moves it there.

Your texts are handled like any other Viro chat: they're never sold or used to train AI. Messages travel through the messaging app's own service, so its privacy policy applies too. Viro has to read your messages to answer them, so a chat with Viro isn't end-to-end encrypted between you and Viro, even in an app that encrypts chats between people. The details are in the Privacy Policy.