# Your first paper, your first answer

> On a phone, uploading a paper now leads straight to three questions written from that paper, each one tap from a cited answer.

Source: https://www.alfredscholar.com/changelog/ask-your-first-paper/
Published: 2026-10-21

Adding a paper on your phone now leads somewhere. Alfred opens it, reads it in a few seconds, and offers three questions written from that paper, so your first answer is one tap away.

## What's new

- **Questions written for each paper.** Open Ask Alfred on a paper and you'll see three questions about its findings, methods and limits, drawn from the paper itself. Tap one and Alfred answers, citing the pages it used. You can always type your own.
- **Straight from upload to the paper.** Upload a single paper on your phone and it opens straight away, with a note while Alfred reads it. Ask Alfred opens on its own once the paper is ready.
- **A clearer way to ask.** A paper on your phone now has an "Ask about this paper" button at the bottom of the screen.
- **A calmer first visit.** An empty library shows one thing to do, and we hold back our own prompts until you've asked your first question.
- **No more zooming.** The question box no longer makes iPhones zoom in while you type.