10 Surprising Things Siri Can Do
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- I’ve made two videos now about Siri on the iPhone, definitely check those out if you’ve not already, but there are things that Siri can do that I didn’t mention in those videos, plus a few new things that have been added in recent iOS updates, and so with that in mind, here are 10 things that you can do with Siri on the iPhone.
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0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Use Siri to End a Call
1:48 - Restart your iPhone
2:25 - Take a Photo
4:33 - Relationships
6:00 - Include Emojis when dictating
6:55 - What can I do here?
7:26 - Daily Briefing
8:23 - Longer Siri Pause Times
9:35 - Send Messages Without Confirming
10:27 - Teach Siri Pronunciations - Наука та технологія
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Love your tips mate , but just wondering if there is a way to get Siri to turn off the screen without shutting down ?
I have tried it sometime in the past and got the response “ I can’t do that “ from Siri .
I know the iPhone will turn off on its own in X amount of time , but if you turn your iPhone on and off a lot , it’s handy to save some battery by turning the screen off immediately with a voice command if you are busy.
Cheers.
@@mikldude9376 None that I know of unfortunately, only the ability to restart.
If you say “Hey Siri, lock phone screen” Siri will lock your screen WITHOUT restarting your phone. I use this feature all the time when I drive.
Not so sure about the sister thing. I have 3 sisters...
I wish Siri would do things without having to unlock phone every time. Like when I’m driving and the phone is on the phone holder. I say hey siri text so and so, or look something up and she says “unlock phone”. Btw love your videos!! You go at just the right speed for understanding! I’m on 16.2 iphone8+.
Same issue here. I mean what's the point of trying to be hands-free if you have to touch the phone to unlock it?
Check out 2 items:
Settings, Siri & Search, Allow Siri When Locked and
Settings, Face ID & Passcode and scroll down to ALLOW ACCESS WHEN LOCKED.
HTH.
@@arthendrickson4860 thank you i hope this fixes it!
Same here.Love your work!
Use voice control
Fantastic video. I am using Siri more than before but still neglect Siri a bit much. Learning a new feature or two will only help the experience. I really do prefer Siri confirming a message before sending. Not sure what others tend to do
Super handy tips, as always!
Any chance of covering "Accessibility" and more specifically "Voice Control."
I have been using it in the gym and it's just magical!
This guy is extremely helpful! I have had Apple for over 8 years now and I’m very inclined towards technology and I thought I knew everything with Siri but this guy showed me more than a couple of new things! I’ve subscribed after the first video that I watched. I recommend for everyone to do so!
After leaving the dark abyss of Android I ventured into Apple world 6 months ago. You have been my go to guy since then. Concise and to the point. Oh. And understandable. I don’t have to stretch my weak comprehension skill to learn from you. Thanks so much !!
Thank God you made it out of the dark side!!
OMG. Just today my phone got stuck and I couldn’t send out messages and the touch wasn’t working so I was just trying to reset it and the buttons on the side didn’t work either so I told Siri to do it. Worked like a charm.
Siri tips are my favorite set of videos that you do. As a woman of advanced years, I use Siri a lot, and I have always wished that Apple would put out a continuingly updated set of functions that they have given to Siri, or, as is frequently the case, that they have taken away from Siri. I spent several days searching Apple-centric forums, trying to find out if Apple had actually taken away the feature where Siri could search photos by objects or dates, etc. I finally found somewhere that said that that feature was taken away. After I had spent quite a while looking, because it was a feature that I used very frequently with my over 10,000 photos. Please keep the Siri updates going whenever they come out which admittedly is not often enough. Thanks a lot! 0:06
That Restart iPhone feature is a game-changer for me! Too often would I turn off my phone with the intent to turn it back on, but for whatever reason, I get distracted easily and wonder 15 minutes later, "Man, my phone's been quiet" and sure enough it's still off in my pocket or left somewhere in my house
Thanks for the tip about the relationships. I often use Siri to send messages when i'm driving or walking around with my AirPods, it will make things infinitely easier !
You're a world-class communicator. The info you are presenting is begging for you to finally say, "and Bob's your uncle." Why don't you?? Why? 😂Please do! You'll make my day. 😂😁🙏🏼 Gratitude from the USA! You and yours are invited to our Homestead for dinner. 🌞Bravo for your channel. Subscribed. 👏
1:41 bruhh when he called my phones alarm went off!
Do you have any helpful hints for turning off my new iPad Air? I end up taking 2-3 photos before I get the thing turned off.
Thanks for all the hard work producing fabulous, clearly articulated and helpful content!
Question: How can one correct unusual words or names that iPhone Dictation, or Siri, continually get wrong? I've tried creating a Contact for such a word and using a Phonetic field, but that doesn't always work for dictated content. Thanks!
Great video, as usual. I’ve already changed several contacts to show my relationships. Also, I love the “what’s my update” function!
A useful tip for name pronunciation is try using common words for example Kreizinger ends up sounding like Kreezenjer I tried Cry Zinger and it’s close enough to work for me.
The restart iPhone one was useful for a friend that had a weird bug with their power button not responding. 🎉
4:11 probably an unknown setting somewhere but, Siri responds to “Restart my iPhone” with, “Sorry, I can’t do that here”. Tried multiple states of “here”. Same response.
Interestingly enough, I'm using 16.4 and the option "hang out" is not available. I'm in Brazil, though. Maybe it's a setting not available in this region.
Your watch can also start the video camera on your phone as well. I use that a lot and the watch shows a preview so you can be sure the phone is set up in the correct position.
The contextual relationships tip is GOLD. Thanks!
A few days ago I found your channel and have learned so much about my phone that I never knew. I’m a senior and love Apple products so knowing how to navigate is wonderful. Thank you.
Brilliant!! These tips eliminate a number of barriers I had with Siri. Time to re-engage!!
Thank you for sharing these useful new updates! By the way, you can find out the name of an Emoji by typing it somewhere (Notes, Mail, Pages, etc.), and then highlight the emoji and from the pop-up menu, choose “Speak”. Siri will read the name of the Emoji out loud.
Thanks for a detailed tutorial!1 I followed the steps for adding "say cheese' in my shortcuts, except for my phone will not allow me to switch from take photo with "back" to "front". The little blue arrow is there newt to the word camera but doesn't do anything? I have IOS 16.3. any suggestions?
I'm an Apple fan and I knew most of these but I actually didn't know about the "What Can I Do Here?" that's actually pretty cool in my opinion! 👍🏻
OMG so helpful. My wife’s name pronounced by Siri is a mess! I’ve now updated it and it’s like she has a new friend! Thanks (I had no idea you could do that!)
Love the photo tip. Is there a way to be able to frame your photo before siri snaps it? I tried the preview 'on', but I then have to manually push the 'shutter'.
I don’t have the end call option for some reason, running 16.2.
Siri on AW used to be able to check battery charge on iPhone & vice versa , lately it doesn’t., is there a fix ?
Your videos are helpful! First time I have had this happen where I tried to adjust something from your tutorials and my iPhone 12 is not finding it. It doesn't bring up the Say Cheese shortcut. I am on IOS 16.2 so not sure. I see there is 16.3 available. Maybe I'll update and then try. Keep up the great content!
The shortcut to take a picture is a great idea. Problem is for a selfie one can’t see the image to set it up and Hey Siri doesn’t work in the camera app for some reason
I think this Siri-only restart method is pretty cool, but also potentially dangerous. Imagine someone else forcing your phone to restart at opportunistic times. It could stop you from calling for help or otherwise. Could be combined with other techniques/exploits/social engineering to aid in crimes. I love it as a feature, but there needs to be an option to turn it off considering it could potentially be a security issue for people.
This is by far the best channel for iOS info. No one comes close. And the Siri functions are amazing, but I do have a question: how do I change the news source from NPR to BBC in the “what’s my update” command? Many thsnks
Extremely helpful, even more so than usually. I adjusted several settings while watching, and I’m very grateful. Thanks!
Excellent presentation - thanks. Appreciate your down-to-earth delivery, and I'm enjoying learning "new stuff". I've already used some of your great tips. Looking forward to picking up more, PHT. There should be an emoji for that acronym.
How about a volume toggle in the alarm separate from ringer volume?
For some reason, Call Hang Up is available on my iPhone 12 pro and not on my iPhone13. Both rocking iOS16.5.1
I used to try to call my daughter on an early bluetooth headset, but it couldn’t understand the word. She also has an usual name it couldn’t get either. I changed her contact to “dotter” and it worked perfectly!
The following is a problem with Siri two apple devices with Siri when you ask for a timer to be set for 3 minutes it will about 50% of the time say it can’t do that but it did set. An alarm for 3 pm. Now when the devices are near one another and you ask it to turn off the timer many times the one without it set will respond no timer is set. However the end alarm on the other device is still sounding.
I don’t have the option for call hangup on my 14pro. I’m running the newest beta iOS, and I have tried changing the language and region. Nothing. What do?
Thank for this great video. Regretfully ‘hang up’ is not available in Dutch although I have IOS 16.2
Very nice video with terrific ideas. I added the “cheese” shortcut and learned that my watch could take a picture! The phonetic spelling addition is very useful and I can’t wait to implement it.
I for one am very glad siri can restart my iPhone xr! An app had a weird bug where it kept requesting access and was stuck in that loop
Hey Tom- the "say cheese" shortcut does not work on my 13 Pro. It shows the shortcut but does not press the shutter. Thoughts?
Slightly off topic question! Like most people, I regularly turn my phone to silent if I am in a meeting/show, etc. However, I frequently forget to un-silence it after the event, and end up missing calls/messages. Is there anyway - using Siri or other - to silence the phone for a period of time? Or maybe because this is a physical button (iPhone 11) this is not possible.
You could easily do this with a focus mode create an event in your calendar for the meeting, and have the focus mode switch the phone to silence during the meeting and then after the meeting it would automatically go back to normal
With Focus mode you can silence notifications for an hour or when you leave your current location.
BTW I use ios 17 any whenever you said “Siri” you activated my Siri as the listen for “Siri or hey siri”feature is enabled on my iPad
New subscriber and I LOVE the way you conduct a UA-cam tutorial. I'm learning so much binge watching your content. Just curious .. I can't seem to find the link to the freecodecamp list of emoji names in the description. thanks again for brilliant content.
Thanks! And my bad, I’d forgotten the link, it’s there now (but also here just in case) www.freecodecamp.org/news/all-emojis-emoji-list-for-copy-and-paste/
I was ask the Siri every time like “hey siri power off the iPad”
Wow. This was very informative/useful. Props for the pdf alternative (I understand the member paywall).
You said Hang up only works on iPhone 11 and later, however it seems to be available on an iPhone XR as it shows in the menu, not tried it yet to see if it actually works but I will do and report back.
Also works on my iPhone SE 2g
These advanced features are great but I still have problems with very simple instructions like basic addition and subtraction. Apple should get these solidified more before worrying about advanced features.
As a native born son of the South, I really appreciate finding out I can get Siri to stop cutting me off.
I’m on iPhone 12 16.1 but don’t have this feature 1:52
how do I change the podcasts that come in What's my Update? Greetings Benny from Denmark
oh, if only iPhone actually worked as perfectly as these videos imply! I tried to use the relationship function, and all Siri would do was call the person I was referring to! I tried to use the C cheese function by setting up in the shortcut gallery, but it would not find any such function as a cheese, and I am running a newer version of iOS then what this tech recommends. A few of the other tips did work, but note some of them don’t.
I have also found that Siri works better with wired headphones compared to wireless buds. Also as a hearing aid user I have to remove them to make the most of Siri!
Really nice list of features! 👍🏻 Though, I must say the "adding relationship" feature is really, really, really, really old. 😊
Be that as it may , some of us have never seen it before , all tips are welcome, even older ones.
I’m glad you brought this up, because I have been using it for years to call my mother and brother
Love your videos! A feature I would like added to Siri, is to tell her how to pronounce the name of the city I live in. She always gets it wrong and I haven’t found a way to change the pronunciation. Any ideas?
None that I'm aware of sadly, I'm only aware of Siri being able to be corrected about the names of people, not places.
Wow. I might actually use the "Restart my iphone" prompt. Pressing up/down and then quickly pressing the lock button and then holding it until my finger fell asleep was a problematic method.
I really wish Siri could be even a little helpful with settings…. It is frequently not obvious which setting I need to use and I wind up poking around. One of the most frustrating is that apple does not seem to understand the word “screen”….. you gotta use the word “display”
Siri doesn’t appear to follow Calendar settings. I have set up my Calendars to start the week on Mondays (not Sundays). When I ask Siri on a Sunday for my next week schedule…she gives me the following weeks schedule, not next weeks! Any suggestions?
Thanks - always great stuff!
I just wish I could remember all your tips and tricks 😅
The Siri hang up feature is also available on iPhone XS
Great video. One issue with the "Say Cheese" shortcut is that (at least for me) Siri doesn't work when the camera app is running. So there's no way to align the camera correctly or lock focus or things like that to prepare for the photo?
What I did is rather than using SIri/Shortcut, I used Voice Control instead and set a customized command to press on the shutter. You will find the function under Accessibility in Settings.
@@aplus9906 which Action did you use?
@@Kathikas1 Custom. To press on the area where the shutter would be
@@aplus9906 Thank you!That was a good help for me!!
If u have a Apple Watch u can open the camera app on ur watch n see a preview of what ur pic will look like (u can also see it on ur iPhone if taking a selfie) n use ur front or back camera on ur iPhone to snap a pic by pressing the shutter on ur watch. U can also set a timer. Super useful for taking selfies w my gfs or when using a tripod n posing with my friends.
Darn, I have an iPhone 6 and I'm stuck at iOS 12 D'oh! I didn't know they were up to 16 already! I thought it might've been 14 or so.
Call hang up is now enabled on my iPhone XS Max
Not sure why but most of these I seem to have to have my phone already unlocked to use iPhone 13 Pro Max IOS 16.3
I got three sisters an seven brothers lol, great video again
I wish when reading out numbers or OTP, Siri would read one digit at a time. 123456 should be “1”, “2”,…,”6” and not one hundred and twenty-three thousand, four hundred and fifty six.
In what context would you want numbers read out like that though? Surely more often than not, people using Siri are going to be wanting to hear the actual number (using it for a mathematical sum, to split a bill, to convert currency etc), and not a sequence of individual numbers? I'm not disagreeing with you btw, genuinely interested as to why you'd prefer numbers to be read out as a sequence.
@@ProperHonestTech OTP for two-factor-authentication one. I always have my airpods on, so When I get a message, “your password for this transaction is 123456” I want the digits to be read out. Though I suppose that’s not so much a “Siri” thing as it is a general setting. But hey, if it’s the same voice, for me it’s Siri who’s being difficult.
@@naamheenanamikus1035 yes, I believe it is a system “thing” - instructions from my navigation app come out as “turn left onto B one thousand two hundred and forty”!
I did not realize that about the picture taking, because do you know how long Samsung did that just by saying the word capture? I mean years ago. Wow.
I have it on my iPad. The Siri hands free phone call I don’t even call. It would be great for my mom and dad if they don’t hang up cuz theirs are iPhone 14 plus both are.
Useful tips! And I've never known how to correctly pronounce the name Aoife. So that's a bonus!
That say cheese shortcut is brilliant!
Wow, thanks so much for this great video. I really liked the tips for Siri! I set up at least 5 of them. These are awesome! 😊
You can only have one timer. However, If you use the term alarm… Check out below:
Set my lasagna alarm for 50 minutes
Set my garlic bread alarm for 15 minutes
It will create named alarms that will expire that far in the future.
Helpful if you are making a large meal. The only downside is that it creates each of these is a named alarm and they can stack up. But you can ask Siri to delete alarms.
I’m on iOS 16.4 with my 12 pro max and there is call hang up option anywhere I check and I use Siri any reason why I can’t find it 😂
if I am from and in non-English-speaking country and therefor have contacts written using other language, rather than English, how can I use Siri to manage them?
Just wondering why you cannot get the say cheese to work with preview ?
I like and appreciate your videos but this one was next level great!! I learned so many helpful things. THANK YOU!
1:00 - I've got an iPhone 11, iOS16.3 in NZ, I don't have the hang up feature 🤔 May be region specific?
The problem with taking a photo and the “say cheese” command is it doesn’t work if the camera app is opened and if that is the case, how does one adjust the photo beforehand? I want to be able to adjust the photo composition, then step into the location and speak to words “hey Siri say cheese”
The "hey siri restart my iphone, yes" is a little scary, like you could mess someone up by doing it to theirs. Reminds me of a kid from the 70s who used to love pushing the reset button on other kids' digital watches. LOL
This should not be a problem. Siri will only the recognize the voice of the owner
Great info. I set up the Say cheese. It woun't let me change from back to front camera. Any suggestions??
I just learned you can have Siri adjust the brightness on your phone by saying turn up the brightness or turn down the brightness. I like to use Siri to scan through my music when it's a really long song. I say Siri, scan forward one minute.
Hang up is on iphone 10xr 😍 thanks for all the info!!!
My iPad Pro interrupted itself twice today as the phrase “a serious ….” was cited in a video. As I sometimes use it professionally, I’ve made a quick action to shut her down!
I’d like to do the take a photo but there isn’t a say cheese in the gallery
I enjoy your info. But, I cannot seem to add my COVID vaccination card to my phone. Help?
Amazing way for feeding the information. Thank you so much very informative tech tips
I tried restarting my iPhone with a Siri Command. It worked but required me to confirm by tapping. I tried it once by invoking Siri with the side button and once by saying 'Hey, Siri" ... the result was the same. Saying "Yes" did not complete the process in either case. FYI
Thank you for the video! Found it very informative. Listened to it twice! 🙌🏻👍🏻
All this is great, but as a recently disconnected android user….I fell in complete love with google assistant. Siri DOES NOT operate like google assistant, but that is exactly what I want from Siri……how possible is it to get Siri to operate like GA??
Omg, i waited for Siri to be able to restart my phone, all my life! 🤣
How do you get Siri to stop yapping after completing commands? When I say “lights out” and then the lights go out, I don’t want to hear “Okay, the scene is set” every time. Too much backtalk.
I used Siri to make a contact my sister. Her name is Eileen, but Siri can’t recognize me saying that so I entered Ilene in the phonetically section, but now Siri recognizes it correctly but moves it’s location in my contact list from e to I. Is there a way to stop that?
Very helpful. thank you. Love your weekly newsletter also
There are some apps that use passes in the wallet and the passes raise the screen brightness, but sometimes there is glitch after you close the app where the screen goes 100% black and your stuck there tapping your screen trying to raise the brightness. People forget that you can just have Siri raise it. Siri sucked for so long and still pretty much does so many people never ever use it cause the one time they tried it sucked so they said forget this.
That is one barrier Apple has to overcome, not to other barrier of not having Siri suck so much.
Thanks for video! Could you improve Siri taking a picture by adding a let's say a 10 second delay before the taking of the photo? Thanks
Great video….”Say Cheese” definitely a stress reliever-Many Thanks
I love in the latest iOS 16 Siri won't let me set a timer. It says something like: "The timer app is not installed." Lol. Innuvation™