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How to do more with Siri

By SK 0 comments Last updated August 19, 2013

Siri is the name of Apple’s intelligent personal assistant. Using Siri you can dictate, send messages, place phone calls, update your Facebook and Twitter statuses and much more. Siri is, currently, available for iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPad with Retina display, iPad mini, and iPod touch (5th generation). This article outlines eight Siri tricks that iPhone/iPad owners probably don’t know:

Contents

  • 1. Siri and Emoticons
  • 2. Create Secure/Random Passwords with Siri
  • 3. Use Siri with “Find My Friends”
  • 4. Use Siri to Find Movies with 2 Specific Actors
  • 5. Siri and Wikipedia
  • 6. Use Siri to search Notes
  • 7. Teach Siri Your Relationships
  • 8. Erase all of Your Alarms

1. Siri and Emoticons

You may use Siri to dictate emoticons in your text. Here are the basic ones that Siri can produce:

  • smiley face= “Smiley Face”
  • frawny face= “Frowney Face”
  • winky face= “Winky Face”
  • sad face= “Sad Face”

2. Create Secure/Random Passwords with Siri

Launch Siri, and say, “Wolfram password”  or  “WolframAlpha password”

Siri password generator

3. Use Siri with “Find My Friends”

If you use Find My Friends, you can ask Siri to find your friends. SImply say “find my friends”, “find [friend name]”, “Where is my husband” or “find my wife”.

Siri Find My Friends

4. Use Siri to Find Movies with 2 Specific Actors

Tell Siri like “Show me movies with Jason Biggs and Woody Allen” or “What movies have both Tom Hanks and Halle Berry”. Note that Siri can help you find movie locations, showtimes, reviews, ratings, and trailers.

 Siri and find movies to watch

5. Siri and Wikipedia

Say “Wikipedia [search topic]”. Siri will say searching the web for “search topic” and then it will take you to the Wikipedia page for that request.

Siri and wikipedia search

6. Use Siri to search Notes

Tell Siri, “Search notes for [search term].”

Use Siri to search your Notes

7. Teach Siri Your Relationships

Simply tell Siri “Sara is my wife” or “Mat is my dad.” Then you can say “call my wife”,  “text dad” or  “iMessage my husband that I’m on my way home.”

teach siri your relationships

8. Erase all of Your Alarms

If you have a lot of alarms that you do not use anymore, you can tell Siri to “delete all alarms”.

Siri delete all alarms

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  • Siri says “sorry, I cannot take requests right now. Please try again later” fix
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SK( Managing Editor )

Obsessed with tech since the early arrival of A/UX on Apple, Sudz (SK) is responsible for the original editorial direction of AppleToolBox. He is based out of Los Angeles, CA.

Sudz specializes in covering all things macOS, having reviewed dozens of OS X and macOS developments over the years.

In a former life, Sudz worked helping Fortune 100 companies with their technology and business transformation aspirations.

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