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How to Turn Off Siri on Your iPhone, iPad and Mac

Siri is very useful for performing a wide range of functions, from sending text messages to locating your phone, all by voice commands. The voice assistant has consistently grown and now supports over twenty-one languages. While Siri is very powerful, it might not work that great for some people due to accent issues, and thus might be more of a nuisance. Some might also be concerned over privacy issues, and may just want to disable Siri. Here we cover how to disable Siri on your iOS devices and Mac. How to Turn Off Siri on Your iOS Device You can choose to turn off Siri… Read more

How to Create Siri Shortcuts on Your iPhone and iPad

Apple introduced a number of new features and tricks in iOS 12, including Siri Shortcuts. These are commands for regularly-performed actions that you can activate using Siri voice commands. Siri will offer suggestions for actions to perform based on your past behavior. You’ll find these appearing on your lock screen or your search screen, but it’s also possible to create your own. This tutorial will show you how. Related: 7 of the Best Siri Shortcuts for iOS Power Users Siri-Suggested Shortcuts Some of the suggestions for shortcuts that Siri comes up with may be useful for you. Rather than waiting until these show up, you… Read more

How to Add a Relationship to a Contact on Your Mac

If you frequently use Siri on your iOS devices/Mac to call or message contacts, adding relationships to your contacts is an additional way to easily access them. You can specify a certain relationship for a contact quite easily. For example, you can specify that “Sarah” is your sister, and then instead of saying “Siri, call Sarah,” you can simply say, “Siri, call my sister.” It’s a simple and time-saving method which is quite easy to set up. This method essentially adds a contact as a relationship to your own contact card in your Contacts. Another plus point of adding relationships to your contact is that if you… Read more

How to Use “Hey Siri” on Older Macs

While Apple has made the Siri functionality available for older Macs, the company has not made the “Hey Siri” activation function available for all the Macs that support Siri. If you own an old Mac, you would know you have Siri but you do not have access to the “Hey Siri” hands-free command on your machine. Fortunately, though, you have a workaround to get access to the Siri’s hands-free command even on your old Mac. The workaround uses the dictation feature on your Mac to let you call Siri with your voice. Essentially, by setting “Hey” as a wake phrase and “Siri” as the word… Read more