Chapter 5
Taking Control of Your iPhone
IN THIS CHAPTER
Controlling your iPhone with Control Center
Calling Siri
Typing to request Siri
Siri is the increasingly intelligent voice-activated virtual personal assistant living like a genie inside the iPhone. Siri not only hears what you have to say but also attempts to figure out the intent of your words. Siri then does its darnedest to respond to your wishes. Siri can help you dictate and send a message, get directions, call a friend, discover who won the ballgame, tell you when a movie is playing, ID the song playing in the background, arrange a wake-up call, search the web, find a decent place to eat, and play podcasts and the radio with third-party apps. Siri talks back, too, sometimes with humor and other times with attitude. When Ed told Siri he was tired, it responded with, “That’s fine. I just hope you’re not doing anything dangerous.”
Years ago, Siri was available as a free third-party app; Apple bought the startup company behind this neat technology and incorporated the magic inside what was then the latest iPhone model, the iPhone 4s. Siri has been on the iPhone ever since, and also appears on the third-generation iPads ...
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