November 2019
Beginner
528 pages
13h 50m
English
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Chapter 12
Are You Siri-ous?
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting to know Siri on your Mac
Working with Siri
Making Siri your very own
If you aren’t familiar with Siri, Apple’s intelligent digital assistant, you will be after reading this chapter. Although Siri made her first appearance on the iPhone 4s back in 2011 and has appeared on iPads, iPod touches, and even Apple TVs, it’s been available on the Mac for only a few years (it was introduced in macOS Sierra).
Siri is designed to help you get things done using your voice, and the Mac incarnation does it with aplomb. Catalina’s rendition of Siri offers new capabilities designed specifically for your Mac, which means you can search for information, find files, send messages, and much, much more using only your voice.
Better still, Catalina’s Siri is optimized to work well with your Mac’s built-in microphone, so you have everything you need to start using it.
What Siri Can Do for You
Before we get to the “how,” let’s look at what, exactly, Siri can do for you. Here’s a short list of some cool things you can ask Siri to do:
- “Open the Microsoft Word document I worked on yesterday.”
- “Remind me to take the pizza out of the oven in 14 minutes.” ...
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