2. Controlling Your Device with Siri

Siri helps you to check and change settings on your iOS device. Through clever integration with iOS 7 (and later), Siri not only answers your questions and helps you work and play, but it also lets you control your iPhone or iPad with voice commands. In this chapter, you’ll discover how to use these new features to tweak and customize your mobile device. You’ll read about Siri commands that reach beyond scheduling and communication into actual device settings.

Airplane Mode

Although the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has now approved gate-to-gate usage of mobile devices on many aircraft and airlines, you must still place your device into Airplane mode for the duration of your flight. In this mode, iOS ...

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