macOS Monterey For Dummies

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.

Siri is designed to help you get things done using your voice, including 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.

Finally, Siri is optimized to work well with your Mac’s built-in microphone, so you don’t have to buy or connect a mic. That said, I think Siri (along with Dictation and Voice Control) works even better with a wired or wireless headset, as I explain in Chapter 23.

If you haven’t tried Siri, you should. And if you're already a Siri fan, the latest rendition works just as you would expect.

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.”
• “Add a meeting to my calendar at 11 a.m. tomorrow ...