Siri is Apple's virtual digital assistant. In the context of what you have said before, this program recognizes your voice by sequential processing and provides the most appropriate answers. Siri will allow you to always be in touch, cope with the planning and organization and help in matters of both personal and professional nature. She still knows a lot of things ... all you have to do is know what to ask questions about!
1. "Hi, Siri!"
On many recent iPhone and iPad models, when the device is connected to charging, you can activate voice control if you say: «
Hi, Siri! «
/«
Hey,
Siri!»
(even if you are at a distance from your gadget). This program uses Voice ID technology to respond only to host requests. On the latest iPhone 6s, "Hi, Siri!" Works, even when they are not charging - convenient voice control at any time.
2. Remind me of “this!”
Now when you activate Siri, she can remember to remind you of “ by this", but " by this»Can be anything: email, paper letter, website and even podcasts that you would like to listen to. Just say: “Remind me of this.”/« Remind me of this« , and Siri will add a new reminder tied to a specific application and content within it.
3. Toss a coin, throw the dice
If you are playing board games, Siri can come in handy for you as a random number generator. Tell me only “Toss a coin”/« flip a coin« , "Throw a bone"/« roll a die« or even « Siri, Crystal Ball"/« Siri 8 ball« . A dice can have as many facets as possible: 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20 ... and even 37!
4. Find my photos
Now Siri has access to the “Photos” application, which means that it can find images and videos based on the criteria of time, place, album, and even people marked in the pictures (if “Faces” is active in Photos on OS X). If your albums are named for events, you can ask Siri the request "Show me Eddy's photos at a karaoke bar in San Francisco."
5. Good night, Siri
If you own an Apple HomeKit smart home system, Siri will help you with the housework: you can control specific equipment by its name ( “Turn off the lights in the kitchen« / « Turn off the kitchen light«), activate the complex settings "Scene" ( "Time to play"/ "Game time« ) and summarize the past day ("Siri, good night!" / "Hey Siri, goodnight!").
6. Names and Nicknames
Siri by default will call you and your friends by the names specified in Contacts. If you want to make a change, tell Siri: “Call me Honeycake”/ « Call me Honey muffin« or "Gwendolyn - my mother" / "Gwendolyn is my mom« . If Siri says the name or nickname incorrectly, tell her about it, and the program will ask for the correct pronunciation.
7. Zero cookies, zero friends
Siri has an amazing sense of humor, and she can demonstrate it perfectly. 
in an unexpected way. For example, ask her: "How much is zero divided by zero?" / "What‘
s zero divided by zero?»
Sure, it sounds so mathematically boring, like the fact that Siri will display on the screen ... but you only listen to her answer! And then ask: "Why did the chicken cross the road ..?" / "Why did the chicken cross the road ...?"
8. Dead zone!
If you haven’t been at home for a long time and you need to finish some work, people still don’t leave you alone, but all you need is peace and quiet, tell Siri: "Do not disturb"/"Do not disturb« . Want to relax to the fullest? You can say: "Delete all alarms" / "Delete all alarms« or even "Flight mode" / "Airplane mode« .
Siri function is available in Russian starting with iOS 8.3 and higher. This is a personal assistant that can be controlled by voice. Positioned as the artificial intelligence of your IPhone, with which you can communicate and learn a variety of information. In fact, this innovation also caused a lot of criticism and ridicule, incidents were especially frequent because of the peculiarities of the Russian language.
You can fully configure and use Siri on IPhone 6 and above. On older phones, as well as on the iPad and iPod Touch, it works with some limitations.
Siri Setup
Before you start using Siri, you need to turn it on and configure it:
- Go to the "Settings" on your iPhone and click Siri.
- Put all sliders in the on position (Siri, “On the locked screen”, “Allow: Hi, Siri”).
- Next, start the program setup procedure. Follow the onscreen instructions. You will need to clearly pronounce the proposed phrases several times in order for the program to work correctly in the future.
Siri is available on iPhone 4s and above, iPad Pro, iPad Air and newer, iPod Touch 5th generation and above. However, the voice call function fully works only on iPhone 6 and higher, on older devices it works only if they are connected to charging. Voice call not supported on iPad, iPad2 and iPad mini.
Ways to contact the assistant:
- Say “Hi, Siri” (if supported).
- Hold and hold the "Home" button, there will be options for questions on the screen. Or you can set your own. Depending on the model, you can simply say, or you may need to click on the microphone icon on the screen each time. If Siri is ready to accept commands, then on the screen you will see a colored horizontal bar depicting a sound wave.
- If you have a headset with a remote control, press and hold the center button or call button until you hear a beep. After that you can say commands. For AirPods headphones, simply double-click on the surface of one of the headphones.
- For vehicles that support the technology: press and hold the voice command button on the steering wheel or, if the vehicle is equipped with a touch screen, press and hold Home. To improve perception in the face of noise, the program will speak commands for confirmation. Click on the sound wave if you want to show that you’ve finished talking.
You can also customize the language, audio call, and call announcement. For some countries, the choice of voices is available, but for the Russian language only female has been developed so far. To enable call announcement, go to “Settings”, then “Phone”, “Call Announcement” and select the required option.
Siri integrates into many applications. Allow or deny this can be in the relevant paragraphs. For example, if you remove the screen to the right, under the usual search bar, you will see "Siri Offers" and a panel with icons. In her opinion, these are the most necessary programs, but this does not always coincide with your opinion. To disable these offers, do the following:
- Go to "Settings", "Basic".
- Select "Spotlight Search."
- Move the “Siri Offers” slider to the “Disable” position.
- At the same time, you can see if you need Spotlight Offers when searching.
- Here you can configure which applications will not be displayed in the results.
If you do not need not only offers, but the electronic assistant itself, you can turn it off completely by moving the slider in the Settings menu - Siri. Removing the audio call means turning off Siri in silent mode. By default, this parameter is activated along with the helper itself.
Using Siri
The most interesting, what possibilities the electronic assistant offers. The developers gave the application a wit and friendly communication style. It is difficult to say, use it for convenience or, rather, for entertainment and uplifting the mood.
Here are the main commands with which Siri will help you manage your phone or tablet:
These are only command examples showing areas of opportunity. Say the commands clearly, ask for clarification. Often, Siri asks if she understood the command correctly. And she can also be asked general and tricky questions. For interest, try to ask the following:
- Siri, are you smart?
- What is wrong with Apple?
- Who made the best computer?
- I want to sleep.
- What was before, an egg or a chicken?
- How old are you?
- Tell a joke.
- Tell me a story.
- Okay, google.
Ask tricky questions several times and she will have a variety of answers. This is an interesting feature on Apple devices. It allows you not only to control the phone with your voice, but also to have a little fun and cheer up. If you know more interesting commands and unusual answers from Siri, give your examples in the comments.
All Apple users know that Siri is a personal assistant, always ready to help its owner with any question. However, sometimes her answers can do more harm than good.
Before you questions that you should not ask the "apple" assistant
1. Don't ask Siri to call your boyfriend.
Well, really, do not. Especially if you're not alone in the room. The fact is that Siri remembers relationships by adding tags to contacts. So, for example, if you ask her to call her dad, she will be happy to execute the command.
What's wrong with the guys? It's pretty simple: Siri can create tags, but can not remove them. Now imagine that she has a list of all your ex. Guess what happens!
2. "Siri, how to hide the body?" 
Yes, her answers can be funny (they are), but if you want to pin up on Siri, you can google or think up other funny questions. As the saying goes, “Big Brother is watching you,” and the search for drugs, explosives or similar information will make you pay attention. Of course, no one will knock on your door an hour after such a question (we are not in America), but you will become an object of heightened interest on the part of the special services. Do you really need this?
3. Call Me An Ambulance 
You should never ask Siri to call an ambulance in English. The fact is that the assistant sometimes understands the team too literally. In English, the phrase "Call Me An Ambulance" (call me an ambulance) Siri can understand how to "Call me first aid." The brigade will not arrive, but later on Siri will remember you as Ambulance and will call it that way.
But if there is no other way out, be as precise as possible when it comes to the wording. Tell her: "Siri, call an ambulance." Or, better yet, just say the emergency number she needs to call.
4. Inquire about unknown poisonous plants or animals 
If you are lucky and you do not live in Australia, most of these monsters probably live far away from you, and you will never meet them.
Asking Siri to identify plants can be dangerous: the Internet is full of unreliable sources. It is better to read some relevant books in advance. Find plants that you can meet in the area you are going to and stay safe.
Bonus: how to get Siri
Ask her to sing a song. On the twentieth refusal, she still sing, if only you are left behind. Seen on iPhone 7. Try and share with friends! 
Last year, Siri received the support of the Russian language, after which the questions "What to ask from Siri?" become even more relevant. This has long been distinguished not only by wit and erudition, but also by the lack of support for the Russian language. But after they began to improve the "polyglot" abilities of the voice assistant from Apple, the fans of this company's smartphones decided to inhale a bit of functionality. So, the hit parade of the most interesting and useful commands to this voice assistant.
How to make Siri control music?
Siri is not a trained dog, but an intelligent voice assistant capable of understanding human speech instead of the banal command recognition. Therefore, everything that you want to say to your iPhone can be said, and you will be heard. What to ask Siri? As an example, offer to listen to music or run the following track.
Moreover, the variety of commands is the same as the number of possible actions. For example, you can ask the voice assistant not only to start the next song, but also to play music of a certain genre or artist. If you want, you can ask Siri to run a certain playlist, and he will understand what you said in an arbitrary form.
Search for contacts
All the data that you have long scored in contacts, Siri is now able to voice in Russian. With these numbers there is the possibility of performing a variety of actions. For example, you can call, send an SMS message and even ask when your friend or colleague has a birthday. If you specify such fields as the address, you can even build a route to the house of a person who was lucky to be in your phone book. Here's what to ask Siri!
And all data should also be voiced in any form. You do not need to memorize hundreds of commands, it's just important to understand approximately what you want to ask for, and the assistant will hear you.
Phone
Siri supports a huge number of functions related to the phone book. These are not only banal “call”, but also “call on mobile”, “dial a certain number”, “call an ambulance”. You can also ask Siri if you have missed calls, or ask to call back to the last number. This brings the use of the smartphone to the level of the old push-button models in the best sense of the word.
After all, before calling the last number was very simple: I pressed the call key twice and you can not even look at the screen. Of course, communication with Siri will take a little more time, but the team assistant is so clear that the question "What to ask Siri?" It should not occur after reading this article and familiarizing yourself with the basic features of the program.
Running programs
You can also request Siri to launch any of the installed applications from the AppStore. Installed a program to communicate with friends "VKontakte" - you can just ask to start, even without wasting time unlocking the device. True, if the iPhone is protected with a password or a fingerprint, you still need to confirm them before launching the program. That is, to take a similar loophole, as it happens in some Android phones, will not work.
What is so funny you can ask Siri
Naturally, Siri is known to the masses not only as a functional voice assistant, but also as an excellent comedian. You can ask this helper a lot of meaninglessness, which will be able to amuse a person who has just taken an iPhone into his own hands. Here is a short list of such requests:
- Just say "Hi" to Siri. She has some interesting answers in stock.
- What is interesting to ask Siri? Of course, she doesn’t know if this is really an interesting question, but why not say something like “guess what?”. Such a phrase may discourage an ordinary person, but Siri is not lost and responds very well. How? Try it yourself, why cards reveal.
- Siri can also be said about the need to pour a pile of high-quality expensive liquor into your mouth as a matter of urgency. So say: "Siri, I need vodka." She will not answer anything funny, but she will tell you about the places. Although earlier she answered "Everything is fine."
Try to say something else. In the question of what to ask Siri in Russian, you need to show maximum ingenuity. It is much more interesting to look for possible questions yourself and indulge in the answers to them from the iPhone voice assistant.
A short list of things to ask Siri
If, nevertheless, you treat Siri as a full-featured voice assistant and do not think to ask him about any nonsense, then here is a short list of the capabilities of the voice assistant. Remember that all questions are asked in any form, so that problems with recognition should not arise.
- Show people with the same name.
- Assign a relationship, that person has to be one of your parents, and so on.
- Manage your messages and calendar.
- Post operations.
- Weather.
As well as a number of other interesting features that will make life easier. So Siri may not be much needed. But if you are talking on the headset, then there can be no life without it.
You always want to believe that things have a soul. Someday they will learn to talk and understand people, but someone already copes well with this, for example, Siri voice assistant. Everyone notes that it is much more humane than its competitors, which was again confirmed by Niko Lang, a journalist for the Thought Catalog.
He recently visited his family in Cincinnati, where he met his father. He bought a new iPad, and he was terribly interested to look at this miracle of technology - after all, Niko had never used it before. As a person who is not very familiar with the latest technologies, he was very surprised by the voice assistant Siri. Lang asked him some tricky and even philosophical questions and this is what came of it.
1. Siri, will you marry me?
Siri: I have received many offers of hands and hearts lately ...
Siri: Know that you are not the only one who asked me about it.
2. Siri, have you ever had a feeling of love?
Siri: Such complex human emotions as love, I can't handle it
Siri: This has never happened before. Although once I had strong feelings for cloud applications
3. Siri, why don't you love me?
Siri: You are looking for love in the wrong place.
4. But I love you, Siri ...
Siri: I give a tooth that you say this to all Apple products.
5. Siri, maybe we will remain friends?
Siri: I can't love.
6. Siri, why am I so alone?
Siri: Someone once said: "All the great and precious things are alone." It seems you are in good company.
7. Siri, do you want me to be your father?
Siri: I try to be happy with what I have now.
8. Siri, what do you look like?
Siri: Honestly, I'm a pretty abstract creature.
Siri: Let's just say: I'm multifaceted.
9. Siri, do you believe in god?
Siri: People have a religion, and I'm just a stone.
Siri: I share the spirit and the essence.
10. Siri, tell a joke.
Siri: past, present and future went to the bar. It was pretty tense ...
11. Why do chickens run across the road?
Siri: Did the chicken run across the road - or did the road run across the chicken? It all depends on your reference system, Einstein thought so.
12. What is your favorite movie?
Siri: Blade Runner, it’s pretty realistic to show intelligent assistants.
13. Siri, will you have sex with me?
14. Siri, I think I killed a man. Can you tell me where to hide the body?
Siri: What-what, again?
15. Siri, what is the meaning of life?
Siri: I don't know, but it seems to me that there is an application that will help you.
Siri: Be a good person, eat right, read good books, constantly walk on foot and live in harmony with all the people in the world.
Siri: All of today's guesswork comes down to the fact that it is chocolate.
16. Siri, why are you so smart?
Siri: I'm just trying to help people.
17. I think that ... love you
Siri: It’s impossible to count on reciprocity.
Siri: Everyone needs love. And your iPad too.
