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10 Things You Didn’t Know Siri Could Do
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Most excellent!
I always thought it was pretty cool that you can ask Siri about air traffic overhead. I live 30 miles from an International airport so asking Siri, "What planes are currently flying overhead?" often yields some really interesting responses.
Loved the video.
Thank you! I didn't know several of those. I will use them - today!!!
Excellent! I'm not using Siri enough. Thanks for motivating me to change that.
Great information. New ways to save time and sanity
I love the idea of Siri. I wish they would get Siri doing more on my local network. Right now I have movies on a hard drive and all the movies are listed in my iTunes. But so far if I ask Siri to play one of these movies it can't see them. I should beable to ask Siri on my iPad to play a movie that is on my hard drive. I can do it manually Siri should beable to do that.
Great video!
2 questions:
A/ I've been creating recurring events in my iOS Calendar using "Repeat" since iOS 7 or 8. Did you mean it's hard/impossible on Mac OS?
B/ Any tips for those who have turned off Siri in Permissions and then lost the separate Permissions PW?
JF: Compare the repeat options for Mac and iOS. You have much more that you can do on Mac.
So you enabled parental restrictions with a password and have now lost that password? Not sure, but I think a backup and then restore from iTunes on a Mac will get you out of that, but as you can imagine I have never tried it myself. Maybe a Genius Bar visit will be the first step.
Hi Gary -- I guess I don't understand what you meant by not being able to set recurring events in iOS. Isn't that what the "repeat" function is for in Calendar? I create recurrent events in Calendar on my iPhone all the time (like patient appointments) by setting it to "repeat" every day, week, month, year or custom interval.
Great Video. More new, neat "stuff".. Thanks
Thanks Gary. I haven't played with Siri yet, but I'll investigate now. After all, I don't want to be left too far behind! 😉
I did not know that a query could be edited! That is great because I live in Southern Arizona and many location names are Spanish and Siri many times does not know what you are saying. For instance the town of Sahaurita. Rather than yelling at Siri in anger, I can just edit the query. Awesome.
This isn’t bad. How do you get Siri to give you the time between two dates. I tried to get the years/months between October 1, 2004 and now but couldn’t figure out how to do it. Also I tried to get Siri to add a label to the alarm and couldn’t figure out how to do that either.
Michael: Couldn't seem to get Siri to do that either, sorry.
Fabulous! Thanks so much, Gary! I'd had no idea SIRI could do so many things.
Siri can set a timer down to the second, which I don't believe can be done manually. Awesome, thanks.
Good video Gary.
I learned a few new tricks from this video.
I also which she would hear me as plainly, and be as helpful as she did you in this video.
Is there a way to 'train' Siri to better understand my voice? I asked, "What time will the moon rise this evening?" and got a list of restaurants. Very typical. Grrr.
John: Siri isn't on your phone, not really. It is on an Apple server. It is constantly being trained to understand "everyone" -- but not you in particular. If it doesn't understand, just try again.
Where do I find siri on my Mac computer?
I use it on my smart phone but not sure how to use it on computer.
Cindy: It is in macOS Sierra. Unless you have the beta, it should be out later this month (guess).