Welcome to Lulia

Lulia is a voice-first personal AI assistant that listens, understands, and acts. This guide covers everything you need to get started and get the most out of it.

Setup

Lulia is currently invite-only. Here's how to get started.

Voice Interaction

Talk naturally and have a real conversation. Lulia listens in real-time, understands context and intent, and responds conversationally. There are no commands to memorize — just speak the way you normally would.

Tone

Lulia can speak in different tones. Just say things like "sound more playful" or "switch to your zen tone" and Lulia updates on the spot. Tone shapes how Lulia sounds in voice mode and how she phrases things.

The available tones:

• Warm — Gentle and unhurried. The default.
• Energetic — Upbeat, punchy.
• Crisp — Precise, direct.
• Intimate — Low and smooth, tasteful close register.
• Playful — Light teasing and humor.
• Zen — Calm and spacious.
• Formal — Polished and reserved.
• Narrator — Storyteller cadence, magical warmth.

Chat & History

In text mode, Lulia adds lightweight timestamps to keep the conversation anchored in time without cluttering every bubble. You'll see a centered time marker before the first message in a sequence, and again whenever there is a noticeable gap between messages.

The History view is also grouped by date so older conversations are easier to scan. Headers such as Today and Yesterday separate recent sections, while older entries fall back to calendar dates.

Calendar

Ask about your schedule and Lulia shows a visual timeline of your day. It finds gaps between meetings, surfaces conflicts, and helps you plan — all through voice. Lulia merges events from all your connected calendars into a single view.

When a timeline card shows a Google calendar source, Lulia displays the calendar name and account together when that adds context. If the calendar name is the same as the account email, it only shows the email once instead of repeating it.

Connecting your calendars

Google Calendar — Go to Settings → Connected Accounts → Connect Google Account. Works on both iOS and web.

Apple Calendar — Go to Settings → Apple Data → Connect. Available on iOS only. Events from your iPhone's Calendar app are synced automatically and stay up to date.

If you tapped Connect once and denied access, the Apple Data row changes to Open Settings. Tap that to jump to your iPhone's Lulia settings and re-enable Calendar access.

On the first Google sync, Lulia starts with the calendars you currently have selected in Google Calendar, and always includes your primary calendar. After that, if you ask Lulia to include or exclude a calendar, it keeps that choice even when it refreshes your calendar list later.

Creating events

When you ask Lulia to create an event, it picks the right calendar automatically. On iOS with Apple Calendar connected, events go to Apple Calendar by default. On web, they go to Google Calendar. You can always override by saying something like "put it on my Google Calendar."

Email

Lulia can read, search, and send emails through your connected Gmail and Outlook accounts. Ask to check your inbox, find emails from a specific person, or compose a message — Lulia drafts it in your voice and shows it on screen for review before sending. With multiple accounts connected, Lulia searches across all of them.

Connecting Gmail

Go to Settings → Connected Accounts → Connect Google Account. When prompted, grant both Calendar and Gmail permissions. If you connected Google before email support was added, reconnect to grant the new permissions.

Connecting Outlook

Go to Settings → Connected Accounts → Connect Microsoft Account. Sign in with your Microsoft or Outlook account and grant mail permissions. Works on both iOS and web.

Reading email

Ask "check my email" or "do I have any unread messages" to see your inbox. You can also search by person, subject, or keyword — e.g., "find emails from Miss Carie" or "emails about the project deadline."

Sending email

Tell Lulia who to email and what to say. It will look up the recipient's address from your email history, draft the message, and show you a preview card. Review the draft, suggest changes, or approve it to send. Lulia may also suggest CC recipients based on your email patterns.

For replies, Lulia threads the email correctly so it appears in the right conversation in your email client.

Apple Reminders

Lulia can read and manage your Apple Reminders to-do list on iOS. Ask to see your tasks, create new ones, edit them, or mark them done — all by voice or text.

Getting started

Go to Settings → Apple Data → Connect next to "Apple Reminders." Once connected, your reminders sync automatically and stay up to date as you add or complete tasks in the Reminders app.

If you denied access earlier, Lulia cannot prompt again directly. The button in Apple Data changes to Open Settings so you can re-enable Reminders for Lulia in iPhone Settings.

What you can do

View — "Show me my reminders" or "What's on my to-do list?" shows all your incomplete tasks with due dates, priorities, and list names.

Create — "Add milk to my Shopping list" or "Remind me to review the report by Friday" creates a new item in Apple Reminders when Apple Reminders is enabled on your iPhone.

Complete — "Mark the groceries reminder as done" updates it through your iPhone so it stays in sync with the Reminders app.

Edit — "Change the dentist reminder to high priority" or "Move it to my Work list" updates the item.

If Apple Reminders is not enabled yet, Lulia will tell you how to turn it on in Settings → Apple Data. It can still remember the task for later conversation and widget nudges even before Apple Reminders is connected.

Scheduling time for tasks

Ask Lulia to schedule time for your reminders and it will look at your to-do list, find free slots in your calendar, and suggest a plan. For example: "Look at my reminders and schedule time for them this week."

Alarms

Lulia can set system alarms on your iPhone that break through silent mode and Focus, show on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, and persist across restarts. Alarms are powered by AlarmKit and require iOS 26 or later.

Setting alarms

Just ask: "Wake me up at 7am", "Set an alarm for 6:30", or "Alarm at 9pm called take medicine." Lulia creates the alarm on your device and remembers why you set it so it can follow up later.

Recurring alarms

Weekly patterns are supported: "Set an alarm for 7am on weekdays", "Alarm every Monday and Wednesday at 6:30am." Non-weekly recurrence (e.g., every 3 days) is not supported by AlarmKit.

Managing alarms

On supported iPhones running iOS 26 or later, view and delete your alarms in Settings under the Alarms section. You can also ask Lulia to list or cancel alarms by voice.

The first time Lulia sets an alarm, iOS will ask for permission. You can also enable alarms ahead of time from Settings → Apple Data → iPhone Alarms — the same place you manage Calendar, Reminders, and Contacts access.

Routines

Routines are everything you've asked Lulia to do later — one-shot reminders ("remind me to call mom at 3 PM") and recurring routines ("every weekday at 8 AM, brief me on my day"). They live in the Settings → Scheduled routines screen on iOS and web, so you can scan what's queued without asking.

Each routine card shows the label, the next fire time, and (for recurring routines) the schedule in plain language. Agent runs — routines that do a small task at fire time, like a morning briefing — show a one-line preview of the instruction.

What you can do here

• See your upcoming list. Up to 100 routines, ordered by next fire time.
• Cancel a routine. Tap Cancel on a card. This is the only in-panel action.

Editing time, label, or recurrence

Editing stays voice-driven — just ask Lulia. "Move the morning briefing to 9 AM," "rename the rent reminder to mortgage," "make it every Monday instead of every weekday." The panel reflects the change next time you open it.

Contacts

Lulia keeps an address book of the people in your life. On iOS, your iPhone contacts sync automatically — names, nicknames, phone numbers, emails, birthdays, job titles, and relationships are all available to your assistant. You can also add, search, and remove contacts by voice or text on any platform.

iPhone contact sync

On iOS, go to Settings → Apple Data → Connect next to "Contacts." Once connected, your iPhone contacts sync automatically and stay up to date. Lulia uses this information to look up phone numbers, remember relationships, and personalize responses.

If you denied Contacts the first time, the Apple Data row changes to Open Settings. Use that to re-enable Contacts in iPhone Settings for Lulia, then come back and your contacts will sync automatically.

If you choose limited Contacts access on iPhone, Lulia syncs that selected subset and the Apple Data row shows Manage. Tap it to open Apple's in-app picker and add more contacts without leaving Lulia.

Managing contacts

Add — "Add Sarah Miller as my coworker, phone 555-0100" saves a new contact with details.

Search — "Who's my dentist?" or "Find Sarah" searches by name or relationship.

List — "Show me my contacts" displays your address book with a visual card.

Remove — "Remove Sarah Miller" deletes the contact.

Connecting with other Lulia users

Link your assistant with a friend's or family member's Lulia using a shareable code. Say "Create a link code" — Lulia generates a code (valid for 24 hours) that the other person redeems by telling their Lulia "Redeem link code LULIA-XXXXXXXX." Once linked, your assistants can pass messages between you.

Send a message — "Tell John I'll be there in five minutes." Lulia delivers the message to John's assistant and sends him a notification.

View messages — "Show messages with John" displays your recent conversation history.

Texting

Ask Lulia to draft and send a text message (SMS or iMessage) on your behalf. Lulia composes the message, shows you a preview card to review, and — once you approve — opens the native Messages app on your iPhone so you can send it with one tap.

How it works

Tell Lulia something like "Text Mom that I'm running late." Lulia looks up the phone number from your contacts, drafts the message, and shows a preview card with the recipients and message body. You can ask Lulia to make changes, or say "Send it" to open the Messages compose sheet with everything pre-filled. You still press Send in the Messages app — Lulia never sends texts without your final confirmation.

Memory

Lulia remembers what you tell it — your preferences, the people in your life, and your routines. Over time it builds a picture of your world so it can help more proactively. You can explicitly ask Lulia to remember something, or it will pick up on details naturally from conversation.

Time-bound memory items are treated as temporary context: Lulia stores them with specific dates when possible and lets them fall out of normal recall once they expire, so old "today" tasks do not keep resurfacing later.

If you ask for a softer ongoing nudge instead of a fixed reminder, Lulia can keep that as memory too — for example, remembering to bring up a task naturally in conversation or in the widget only after a certain starting time, and optionally only occasionally instead of in every eligible conversation.

This also acts as a fallback when Apple Reminders is unavailable: Lulia can still keep an explicit reminder request on its radar and bring it back up later in chat or the widget.

Overnight, Lulia can quietly refresh its internal understanding of you from recent conversations, saved memories, and linked account activity like calendar events, reminder state, important email threads, and key contacts. That private portrait helps the next day's replies and widget text feel more personal without sending you a separate nightly report or dumping raw inbox content back at you.

Notifications & Scheduling

"Remind me" can mean four different things, and Lulia picks the right one (or a combination) based on what you need. The four delivery channels trade off between loudness, persistence, and where the reminder shows up:

• Alarms — a loud iPhone alarm that rings through silent mode and Focus, sits on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, and stays until you dismiss it. Best for anything you must not miss: wake-ups, medication, cooking timers, time-to-leave. See the Alarms section above for setup details.
• Notifications — a scheduled push notification (Lulia's own timed alerts). Quiet: it respects silent mode and Focus and can be missed if notifications are off. Good for passive nudges ("Pay rent on the 1st"), morning briefings that check your calendar, and anything where a quiet ping is enough. You can list, update, or cancel scheduled notifications at any time just by asking — and see the upcoming list in Settings → Scheduled routines.
• Calendar events — time-blocks visible alongside your other commitments on Google or Apple Calendar. Lulia now supports recurring events: every day, every N days, weekdays, or monthly on a specific day (bounded by a count or an end date if you like). Invalid or unsupported recurrence rules return an error rather than being silently converted to a one-time event. Calendar events are not alarm-grade — the calendar app's own alerts follow its rules and respect silent mode — so pair with an alarm or notification when the moment matters.
• To-dos — items on your Apple Reminders list (not a timed alert). Use this when you want something on your to-do workflow: "add milk to my groceries", "put 'send invoice' on my to-dos". Reminders' due dates are labels, not guaranteed alerts.

For must-not-miss requests, Lulia defaults to an alarm. For quiet nudges, it defaults to a scheduled notification. When you say "put it on my calendar and remind me", Lulia does both — a calendar event plus an alarm or notification — so you see the commitment AND hear the fire.

Push notifications

When you create your first scheduled notification, Lulia will ask for permission to send push notifications on iOS. Each iPhone keeps its own notification connection, so turning notifications off on one device does not disable the others. In Lulia Settings → Notifications you can see this iPhone's current status, and iPhone Settings → Notifications → Lulia still controls the OS-level permission.

Visual Hints

The screen shows contextual cards alongside the voice conversation. These include calendar timelines, contact profiles, lists, slot pickers, and more. Visual hints appear automatically when they help — you don't need to ask for them. Swipe left on a card to see previous hints from the conversation.

Many cards are interactive — tap a time slot to propose booking it, tap a suggestion chip to send that message, or tap a list item to act on it. The screen serves the conversation, not the other way around.

Navigation

Ask Lulia to open apps, maps, or websites and it will handle it directly. Say something like "open Google Maps," "navigate to the airport," or "open lulia.ai" — Lulia validates the link, picks the right app, and opens it on your device.

On iOS, Lulia opens links natively in the appropriate app. On web, links open in a new browser tab. If a link can't be opened, Lulia will let you know and suggest alternatives.

Web Search

Ask Lulia about anything happening in the real world — weather, news, current events, scores, restaurant recommendations, store hours — and it will search the web for up-to-date answers. You don't need to specify your location; Lulia knows where you are and factors that in automatically.

Lulia reads through the search results and gives you a natural, conversational answer with source citations. A visual card shows the sources it found so you can dig deeper if you want.

If you tell Lulia to use Celsius or Fahrenheit, it remembers that preference and uses it in future weather answers automatically.

iOS Widget

Add a Lulia widget to your home screen or lock screen for a personalized glance at your day. The widget shows a short, contextual message from your assistant — upcoming events, friendly check-ins, or timely nudges — updated automatically throughout the day.

If you've given your assistant a custom name, the widget header shows it alongside the Lulia brand, such as Max for Jiaxin • Lulia.

Adding the widget

Home Screen: Long-press your home screen, tap the + button in the top corner, search for "Lulia," and choose a size (small or medium). The widget starts working as soon as you sign in to the app.

Lock Screen: Long-press your lock screen, tap Customize, select your current lock screen, then tap the widget area below the time. Search for "Lulia" and add the widget. Lock screen widgets show the short glance text.

How it updates

Lulia generates fresh widget text roughly every 15 minutes based on your calendar, reminders, and recent conversations. Tap the widget to open Lulia and continue the conversation from where the widget left off.

Weather details in the widget follow your saved temperature-unit preference too. Ask Lulia to use Celsius or Fahrenheit once, and future widget weather blurbs will match.

The widget can also surface unresolved things you've asked Lulia to keep on its radar, so a conversational nudge from memory may show up there when it's relevant and eligible under the same timing rules. Widget resurfacing is tracked separately from chat, so seeing something in the widget does not prevent Lulia from bringing it up naturally in conversation later.

How Voice Works

Tap to speak

Hold the microphone button and Lulia listens in real-time. It captures your words as you speak — just talk naturally and release when you're done. Lulia will process what you said and respond.

You can also tap anywhere on the screen to pause listening — useful when you need a moment to think. Tap again to resume. A "Tap to continue" label appears while paused.

Visual aids appear alongside voice

When Lulia responds, the screen may show contextual cards — calendar timelines, contact details, lists, and tappable options. The screen serves the conversation, not the other way around.

Switch to text anytime

Swipe left or right to switch between voice and text mode instantly. You can also use the mode toggle in the top-left corner. In text mode, type your messages and Lulia responds with text instead of speaking. Switch back and forth freely.

Example Phrases

Try these to explore what Lulia can do. You don't need exact wording — speak naturally.

Coming Soon

New capabilities are on the way. Lulia grows with you.