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General Category => Echo Technical Support => Topic started by: ezryder on February 17, 2017, 02:52:06 pm

Title: Echo Tap "hands free" update to Alexa...? Articles say it's available, but...
Post by: ezryder on February 17, 2017, 02:52:06 pm
New here, but... no Search function??

Just got an Echo Tap because I read that an update to the Alexa app would allow it to work "hands free" - as in, "You don't have to push the button anymore".  I saw no less than 4 articles saying this was the case and to "just update the Alexa app" for this functionality.  But there's no update available.  The last one I see is from October.  There's no option for this in the app that I can find anywhere.

Any thoughts?
Title: Re: Echo Tap "hands free" update to Alexa...? Articles say it's available, but...
Post by: kevb on February 17, 2017, 03:31:22 pm
"Search" is at the top left of the webpage.  Amazon doesn't send out updates to all Echos/ Dots/ Taps at the same time- they seem to come out piecemeal. Yours will eventually be updated. It would be the actual Echo firmware that updates, not the app.
Title: Re: Echo Tap "hands free" update to Alexa...? Articles say it's available, but...
Post by: mike27oct on February 17, 2017, 05:07:19 pm
to the OP

Speaking of "search", if you had searched this forum (instead of just asking the question) you would have found this recent thread talking all about the TAP hands-free update.  It tells you how to get it and how to check if you have the latest software update to the Tap.

http://www.echotalk.org/index.php/topic,1571.0.html