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Speak to Siri

Siri is your voice-activated personal assistant, capable of making phone calls, playing music, reading your email messages, telling you if it’s going to rain, and even controlling your home.

Summon Siri

You can summon Siri in any of three ways:

• The easiest way is to simply say “Siri.”

• Alternatively, you can say “Hey Siri.”

• Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button or the Home button.

When you do one of these things, a glowing orb appears on the screen, indicating that Siri is awaiting your queries (Figure 74).

Figure 74: The Siri orb.

You can continue speaking to Siri until the orb vanishes, and it now remains for several seconds ...