Egnyte's AI Assistant on Egnyte iOS mobile app provides an AI-powered conversational interface grounded in a company’s data. It enables employees to ask questions in natural language and receive contextually relevant answers based on the content stored within their organization’s Egnyte environment.
AI Assistant uses Egnyte’s enterprise-grade security and access controls, ensuring that responses remain aligned with permissions, file access, and organizational data safeguards. It is designed to help teams quickly locate information, summarize documents, and understand content while working on the go.
Accessing AI Assistant on Mobile
An Ask Me Anything button has been added to most screens, providing a quick and convenient way to open AI Assistant as needed.
Using AI Assistant
When the AI Assistant interface is open, two conversational modes are available:
AI Assistant (All Company Data)
This mode uses all accessible company content as the foundation for generating responses. It aligns with the user’s permission set, ensuring that results reflect only the data that the user is allowed to see.
On mobile, this is always the default behaviour. Folder-level or file-level source selection is not supported in the current version.
Knowledge Bases
Knowledge Bases (KBs) provide responses based solely on the content stored within a specific KB folder.
Switching to a Knowledge Base allows the conversation to be grounded in a curated set of documents chosen by the organization.
Features Supported in the iOS Mobile App
The initial mobile release includes core conversational functionality:
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Source and Model Selector
Source and Model Selection allows greater control over how responses are generated. In addition to Egnyte content (which is always included), optional web sources can be enabled, and a single large language model can be selected from the supported models to power the conversation. Gemini-2.5 Flash is the model selected by default. The model selector is also available in the Document AI feature for domains with AI Add-on plan. -
Voice input: A microphone icon is available within supported chats. When activated, speech is transcribed in real time, with a waveform visual indicating active recording. If a pause longer than three seconds occurs, recording automatically stops, and transcription remains available for review and optional editing. Recording may be manually resumed as needed (by tapping on the microphone icon), and the prompt can then be submitted through the standard submission control.
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AI-generated suggestions at the start of each chat.
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Web Links in AI Assistant Sources
When web links are included as sources, the referenced content can be opened by clicking on them, enabling seamless access to external information in AI Assistant responses. -
Improve prompt to help refine the questions in the input field for clarity, focus, and effectiveness.
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New chat to reset the conversation and begin a new thread and Chat history to return to previous conversations.
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Feedback controls (thumbs up / thumbs down) for rating responses.
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Copy response to easily share or re-use AI Assistant output.