The desktop and mobile Alexa Answers websites are built to be responsive, and therefore are built to handle the differences in size between the two types of websites, with little differences between the two in how to use them. The Alexa Answers currently has no mobile app on iOS or Android. At this time, it is only available on their website.
Customize your “Questions for you” section, by clicking the Customize button towards the left-hand side of the section, just above the label, then selecting-deselecting checkmarks showing you questions that are requesting actions.
Towards the right-hand side, you’ll spot the Edit/Remove hamburger menu button, which you can click and either select Edit to edit your answer or select Remove and confirm the removal of the entire pair. On a mobile device, this block is a lot smaller, but is all still there. You can sort this list for these in each of the categories - All, LIVE, Flagged, Not Live - or you can sort by Most recent (default), Most points, or Most edits.
Below this, you’ll see many badges including the first four Getting started badges - including answering your first question, rating your first question (which isn’t yours), editing one of your answers, and following a question - all of which will be described shortly. Below this, there are other follow-up badges you can earn including one for keeping an answering streak going, another for counting the number of answered questions within a category - and many more!
Realize that questions must be factually correct (researched without mentioning their sources in the text) as well as able to be read through a speaker. There’s a speaker preview button when you need it, and although it’s pretty good at knowing when initials are just initials, sometimes you may need to add spaces to make the answer sound good to the speaker-listener - all by clicking the play’s preview button. Keep in mind that if you start the preview, then try to edit your response, you’ll end up canceling the preview and you’ll have to have its preview start over the next time.
The Show button allows you to sort by “Unanswered Questions”, “New Questions”, “Popular Questions”, and “Hot Questions”. Each of these has special icons that are viewed on each line that requires them, with some marked as the green and white circular New icon, and some occasionally make the “Hot Questions” inferno icon also in the same spot. Learn about the categories you’ll be able to sort between. Categories include Animals, Climate, Film and TV, Food, Geography, History, Literature, Miscellaneous, Music, Science, Sports, and Video Games. However, these can only be selected one at a time. There’s a refresh button as well, which refreshes the list of questions at any time just to the right of the Category line on the screen, over on the right-hand side of the screen. On the desktop website, you’ll be told how many questions are on the list. However, this isn’t available on the mobile website version.
If an answer is reportable such as for being unsuitable for the site, incomprehensible, subjective, incorrect or irrelevant, duplicate, or spam, tap the flag to the right of the answer, click the reason, then click the “Report” button. Also, on the question/answer site, you’ll find “Similar Questions” that are close to the original questions. You can sort the questions by either Most Recent or Most Points, or you can click the “Answer” button just to its right from the question-answer page to submit an additional answer if the correct answer hasn’t been submitted yet.
If you don’t fall in the top 10, you’ll see a dialog box saying “Your answers haven’t received enough feedback yet!” and that you should answer more questions to gather more feedback and appear on this leaderboard. Focus your answers on being helpful yet within the 300-character limit.
Your Profile is a spot where you can view how your profile looks to the public, and it also includes the information from the Your Impact page and smaller badge icons followed by your question/answered pairs list.
