Mobile Now Assist display experience for Virtual Agent

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated July 31, 2025
  • 1 minute to read
  • Choose how you want Now Assist to display in your mobile app.

    Note:
    To configure Now Assist in Native Mobile Virtual Agent, you must upgrade your mobile client to 19.3.0+.

    Standard chat

    Configure the standard chat experience for Now Assist in Virtual Agent to enable you to access Now Assist from a Now Assist icon on your mobile app home page. Tapping the icon opens a Now Assist chat that provides synthesized generated responses to your questions. The generated responses display in-line citations to show where information was gathered from, as well as a list of any promoted actions you can take in response to the request. Only the first six lines of the response are shown, with the remaining lines accessible under the Read More button. For more information, see Standard chat.

    In this example, asking Now Assist about booking travel provides a summary of the steps required to book a trip. It also offers the option to request a business travel support letter, request travel help, and to view more information about international travel.

    Figure 1. Now Assist standard chat
    Now Assist summarizing the company's policy on booking travel

    Enhanced chat

    Configure the enhanced chat experience in Now Assist for Virtual Agent so you can access it from your home page search bar. You can ask questions and receive responses synthesized from multiple sources, as well as get standard search results, all in one place. The summarized answer includes any applicable actions you can take. For more information, see Enhanced chat.

    In this example, asking Now Assist about booking travel provides a summary of the steps required to book a trip. Below the generated response, Now Assist lists the sources from which it pulled its information.

    Figure 2. Now Assist enhanced chat
    Now Assist giving information on booking travel

    Custom apps

    If you have a mobile SDK installed on your instance, you have the option to enable Now Assist for Virtual Agent for your custom apps. For more information, see the Mobile SDK documentation.

    Figure 3. Custom mobile apps
    the custom apps section of the virtual agent display configuration screen

    Configuring your Virtual Agent display experience

    Choose how you want Virtual Agent to display on your mobile app.

    Figure 4. Mobile display experience configuration
    Landing page for how you want virtual agent to display on your mobile app.

    For information on how to configure your Now Assist display experience, see Configuring assistants overview.

    Note:
    Now Assist in Native Mobile Virtual Agent uses mobile theming. For more information, see Next Experience theming for mobile.