Abstract: An assist apparatus for assisting a user or an occupant of a vehicle to get out of the vehicle, the assist apparatus configured to be capable of opening a door of the vehicle automatically upon a request operation for opening the door by the user.

Abstract: When an attention-required object (an approaching object) is present within a peripheral area of a vehicle in a case where a user's door opening request operation has been detected, a control ECU of an assist apparatus performs a door opening operation restriction process to hold/keep a sliding door at a fully closed position without performing a door opening operation process for the sliding door. When the user's door opening request operation is detected after this door opening operation restriction process has been performed a predetermined number of times, the control ECU performs the door opening operation process to move the sliding door to the fully opened position even when the attention-required object is present.