Category: Siri

  • How to Stop iPhone Siri Listening to You

    How to Stop iPhone Siri Listening to You

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Stop iPhone Siri Listening to You Due to the nature of how Hey Siri on iPhone works, Siri is basically always listening to you and your surroundings, if the Hey Siri feature is enabled. This is necessary to hear the “Hey Siri” activation word so that Siri…

  • Get a Personal Update from Siri on iPhone, iPad, Mac

    Get a Personal Update from Siri on iPhone, iPad, Mac

    Go to OSX Daily to read Get a Personal Update from Siri on iPhone, iPad, Mac Siri has a neat largely unknown feature called Personal Update, that, when requested, will give you a summary of information from various apps that you may find useful. Specifically, Personal Update will give you the weather forecast for the…

  • Why do Messages Say “Sent with Siri” on iPhone?

    Why do Messages Say “Sent with Siri” on iPhone?

    Go to OSX Daily to read Why do Messages Say “Sent with Siri” on iPhone? If you’re an iPhone user you may have received a message at some point in time and noticed that underneath the message content, a little note says “Sent with Siri”. You might be wondering what that means, and why the…

  • Make Siri Listen Longer for Commands on iPhone & iPad

    Make Siri Listen Longer for Commands on iPhone & iPad

    Go to OSX Daily to read Make Siri Listen Longer for Commands on iPhone & iPad If you ever find that Siri is cutting you off in the middle of you issuing a command to the virtual assistance, you may want to change the “Siri Pause Time” setting to a longer duration of time. You…

  • How to Hang Up Calls with Siri on iPhone

    How to Hang Up Calls with Siri on iPhone

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Hang Up Calls with Siri on iPhone If you use Siri to make phone calls and start FaceTime calls, you might also be interested in using Siri to hang up your phone calls or FaceTime calls too. With this feature enabled, you can say “Hey Siri, hang…

  • How to Automatically Send Messages with Siri from iPhone Without Confirmation

    How to Automatically Send Messages with Siri from iPhone Without Confirmation

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Automatically Send Messages with Siri from iPhone Without Confirmation If you’re confident in Siri’s abilities to dictate text and accurately relay what you are saying into a message, you can enable a feature that allows you to automatically send messages from Siri on iPhone without asking for…

  • Remove Dictation Button from Safari Address Bar on iPhone & iPad

    Remove Dictation Button from Safari Address Bar on iPhone & iPad

    Go to OSX Daily to read Remove Dictation Button from Safari Address Bar on iPhone & iPad You may have noticed a microphone button in the address bar of Safari on iPhone or iPad, and when the microphone icon is tapped it will activate dictation, turning your voice into text. Many users may accidentally tap…

  • Silence an Alarm on Family Members iPhone / iPad

    Silence an Alarm on Family Members iPhone / iPad

    Go to OSX Daily to read Silence an Alarm on Family Members iPhone / iPad Have you ever been in the situation where someone set an alarm on their iPhone or iPad and it is blaring away, but perhaps they aren’t nearby to turn it off, or maybe you want to let them continue sleeping…

  • How to Use the Gender Neutral Siri Voice

    How to Use the Gender Neutral Siri Voice

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Use the Gender Neutral Siri Voice Siri now has a non-binary gender neutral voice option available to users who prefer to not have a stereotypically male or female Siri voice. While Apple somewhat recently removed all gender identifying information from Siri voices, simply referring to them as…

  • How to Set a Timer on Mac

    How to Set a Timer on Mac

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Set a Timer on Mac Setting a timer on the Mac is pretty easy, though you’ll be forgiven if you assumed there would be a dedicated timer feature within the clock app of MacOS, as there is in the iOS and iPadOS world. It turns out that…