In a statement published on 31 July, the company said it would withdraw the virtual Cortana assistant from devices iOS and Android.
While this is something new for the Americans users, the Microsoft did a similar cleanup of the mobile app in areas such as the Canada, η Australia , and the United Kingdom, in January 2020.
As reported at the time by the technology news reporter of Mashable, Alex Perry, this means that, "your reminders and lists will no longer work through Cortana. They will still sync with the app Microsoft To Doas a small consolation prize."
The site's latest support announcement attempts to undo these difficult circumstances by emphasizing a new way in which users will be able to "να διαχειριστούν το ημερολόγιο και το ηλεκτρονικό ταχυδρομείο τους, να συμμετάσχουν σε συναντήσεις και να κάνουν πολλά περισσότερα, μέσω ενός τρόπου που θα εστιάζει στην παραγωγική εμπειρία – όπως η εμπειρία Cortana Windows 10, the integration of Cortana in Outlook mobile and soon the voice assistance of the virtual assistant in the app Teams for mobile phones."
Possibly a more immediate concern is that Microsoft has also announced that, on September 7, it will end all its third-party app features. Third-party skills are those that allow Cortana to be useful when it comes to non-Microsoft services, such as the ability to ask her to play music from Spotify.
This appears to be the last big step in the phasing out of Microsoft's virtual assistant from Android or iOS phones. It probably won't be a huge blow to many, as Cortana competes with iOS's Siri and Google Assistant for Android, both of which are built into their respective operating systems.
So far, there has been no official statement from Microsoft on whether they will completely withdraw from the digital assistant game.