Many iPhone (and other phones) users like the convenience of using a virtual assistant. These assistants can help you do a variety of things with just a spoken command. A couple of my favorite uses for “Hey Siri” are: “Hey Siri, set a timer for 15 minutes.” This is especially useful when you need to … Read more
Although many people find the Siri assistant to be very useful, not everyone loves Siri. I personally use Siri regularly on my Apple Watch and from my iPhone via Car Play while I am driving (I haven’t found much use for Siri on my Mac). Still, I find that occasionally Siri responds when I don’t … Read more
You can change the voice in Apple Maps. This voice is what you will hear with voice navigation and travel alerts. If you use Apple Maps in your car using CarPlay, this is the voice that will speak to you. The Apple Maps app offers turn-by-turn directions, 3D view, and more for users. Not only … Read more
Several users have said that Siri is unable to identify songs. Siri uses Shazam, a music recognition program, to identify songs. When you hear a song you want to be identified, you can use Siri to know the name of the song you heard. And Siri can identify what is playing by listening to it. … Read more
Siri is Apple’s virtual assistant. Siri can do a lot of jobs. You can have Siri announce and read out the incoming messages (SMS messages and iMessages) when your AirPods or compatible Beats headphones are connected to your iPhone or iPad. In other words, Siri will transcribe your incoming messages to you if you are … Read more
Several iPhone and iPad users have stated that Siri sharing suggestions in the Share Sheet screen are not working. More specifically, users have reported that Siri suggestion shortcuts are not showing. Instead, it appears that users are seeing a blank area, or they are not seeing the area at all, as you can see below: … Read more
Some users have said that Siri is still taking over the entire screen even if they are running iOS 14 or later. Up until iOS 14, when you invoke Siri, the Siri interface would take up the entire screen. However, if your device has iOS 14 or later, you will now see a Siri orb … Read more
Do you want to delete your Siri request history? This article explains how you can remove all of your history consisting of records of your conversations that Siri keeps. Apple has recently introduced this new feature that enables users to delete all of the recordings from Apple servers that Siri collects. You can use Siri on all your … Read more
Several users have reported issues with Siri. More specifically, users have said Siri will no longer recognize the contacts and thus they are unable to use Siri to make calls or send messages to the contacts. Some users have stated that they experience this issue with iCloud Contacts. And lastly, users may experience this issue using … Read more
It seems that a user can make phone calls or send text messages even when in a locked state by asking Siri to make phone calls or send text messages. Saying things like “Call this number”, “Read my unread emails”, “Read my last email” or “Read my last text message” lead to Siri insisting that … Read more