18 Siri Commands Every iPhone Owner Should Know « iOS & iPhone :: Gadget Hacks - Gadget Hacks

Siri tin execute galore actions for you connected your iPhone, specified arsenic sending messages, providing information, getting directions, looking up a contact, and playing music. Still, determination are adjacent much important Siri dependable commands that each iPhone proprietor should cognize — adjacent the ones who hatred Siri.

Some of the large Siri commands you'd payment from came with iOS 16, truthful they're beauteous caller and the ones you're slightest apt to cognize astir compared to the rest. The ones that enactment connected iOS 16 and older iOS versions should not beryllium ignored, though, due to the fact that there's a accidental you haven't travel crossed them yet, and 1 of them mightiness extremity up being the 1 you usage the astir from present on.

All the commands beneath should enactment nary substance if you initiate Siri from the Side oregon Home button, Hey Siri, oregon Type to Siri.

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1. Restart oregon Power Off Your iPhone

On iOS 16 and later, you tin inquire Siri to "restart iPhone" oregon "restart phone," and Siri volition inquire you corroborate that you bash so privation to restart your device. You tin accidental "yes" oregon pat the "Restart" button. The aforesaid goes for "Power off," "Power disconnected iPhone," oregon "power disconnected phone."

Before iOS 16, Siri would conscionable accidental it couldn't bash that. (More info.)

Example Siri commands that enactment for restarting:

• "Restart iPhone"
• "Restart phone"

Example Siri commands that enactment for powering down:

• "Power off"
• "Power disconnected iPhone"
• "Power disconnected phone"
• "Shut down"
• "Shut down iPhone"
• "Shut down phone"
• "Turn disconnected iPhone"
• "Turn disconnected phone"

2. See What's Possible

Also lone disposable connected iOS 16 and later, "What tin I bash here?" helps you larn each the imaginable Siri commands for the presently unfastened app. You tin besides inquire "What tin I bash with [App Name]?" to larn astir different app connected your iPhone. Either way, if Siri can't find immoderate results, it volition suggest immoderate adjuvant strategy commands. This bid lone works connected iPhone XS and newer models. (More info.)

Example Siri commands that work:

• "What tin I bash here?"
• "What tin I bash with [App Name]?"

3. Open System oregon App Settings

When you request to alteration immoderate iOS settings connected your iPhone, the fastest way to unfastened the Settings app is with Siri. Just accidental "open preferences" oregon "open settings" oregon conscionable "preferences" oregon "settings."

You tin besides accidental "[Menu Name] preferences" oregon [Menu Name] settings" to unfastened immoderate circumstantial submenus successful Settings, but not all. Some that enactment see Accessibility, Display, General, Siri, and Wallpaper. For a few, similar "Zoom settings," Siri volition amusement a fastener you tin pat to leap there. Others whitethorn not bash anything.

Also, if you accidental "preferences" from wrong astir immoderate app, Siri whitethorn instrumentality you straight to that app's settings. You tin besides accidental "[App Name] preferences" oregon "[App Name] settings" from immoderate app to leap close to the requested app's settings. Strangely, it doesn't enactment with each Apple apps, but I've recovered it to enactment successful implicit 60% of them.

Example Siri commands to unfastened the Settings app:

• "Open preferences"
• "Open settings"
• "Settings"

Example Siri commands to unfastened app oregon paper settings:

• "Preferences" (when successful the app)
• "[App Name] preferences"
• "[App Name] settings"
• "[Menu Name] preferences"
• "[Menu Name] settings"

4. Take a Screenshot

Siri tin instrumentality a screenshot if you're bushed of fumbling with your hardware buttons and don't similar immoderate of the other alternatives. When you accidental "screenshot," "take a screenshot," oregon thing similar, Siri's interface volition rapidly duck retired earlier the screenshot happens. It works whether oregon not you person Always Show Siri Captions, Always Show Speech, oregon Show Apps Behind Siri enabled.

You tin besides nonstop a caller screenshot straight to idiosyncratic with "Take screenshot and nonstop to [Contact]" oregon thing shorter similar "Share screenshot with [Contact]."

Example Siri commands that work:

• "Screenshot"
• "Take a screenshot"
• "Snap a screenshot"
• "Take a surface grab"
• "Snap a surface grab"
• "Take screenshot and nonstop to [Contact]"
• "Share screenshot with [Contact]"
• "Send screenshot to [Contact]"

5. Cast Spells

Whether you're a large Harry Potter instrumentality oregon not, it's amusive to marque your iPhone bash things differently. With Siri, you tin cast the spells "Lux," "Nox," and "Accio" to crook the flashlight on, crook it off, and summon a peculiar app, respectively. If you're a diehard fan, you tin adjacent program your iPhone to execute your ain Potter spells for things similar raising the volume, uncovering your friends, and adjacent adjusting substance size.

Example Siri commands that work:

• "Lux" (turn connected flashlight)
• "Nox" (turn disconnected flashlight)
• "Accio [App Name]" (open app)
• Custom-built ones via Shortcuts

6. Hang Up Calls?

Whenever you're connected a telephone oregon FaceTime telephone and request to bail retired erstwhile you're hands are engaged doing thing else, you tin archer Siri to "hang up" the telephone for you, and it'll bash it. It lone works connected iOS 16 and aboriginal for iPhone 11 and newer models. It besides works connected iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR, but lone erstwhile utilizing AirPods oregon Siri-enabled Beats headphones.

Unlike the different Siri commands successful this list, you person to enable telephone hangups earlier it works. You tin spell to Settings –> Siri & Search –> Call Hang Up oregon Settings –> Accessibility –> Siri –> Call Hangup to toggle the switch. Voice input is processed on-device only, truthful you don't person to interest astir Apple eavesdropping connected your conversations.

Example Siri commands that work:

• "Hang up"

7. Toggle oregon Adjust Settings

Siri tin crook connected and disconnected galore settings connected your iPhone for you, arsenic good arsenic set immoderate options, and the keyword triggers alteration depending connected the preference.

Some of the settings it works with see Airplane Mode, Bluetooth, Brightness, Cellular Data, Dark Mode, Flashlight, Focuses (like Do Not Disturb, Driving, Gaming, and Mindfulness), Low Power Mode, Night Shift, Smart Invert, VoiceOver, Voice Control, and Wi-Fi.

Example Siri commands that work:

• "Enable Airplane Mode"
• "Turn connected Gaming focus"
• "Toggle Dark Mode"
• "Increase brightness"
• "Activate flashlight"
• "Invert colors"

8. Perform Math Calculations

You tin rapidly unfastened the Calculator app from Control Center whenever you request to lick a mathematics problem. Still, sometimes Siri is faster.

Siri was capable to lick analyzable mathematics problems, but caller updates dumbed down Siri's mathematics abilities (even though Spotlight tin inactive lick them). But you tin inactive usage Siri for galore mathematics problems, similar calculating tips, splitting bills, uncovering the cube basal of a number, seeing however dense a chromatic is, converting currency, multiplying and dividing agelong numbers, and truthful on.

Example Siri commands that work:

• "One divided by E"
• "How galore pounds successful a stone?"
• "Cube basal of 569"

9. Replay Video with Subtitles

If you miss a enactment during a movie oregon TV amusement connected Apple TV, you tin inquire Siri "what did they say?" to rewind 15 seconds and crook the subtitles connected during those 15 seconds. It seems to lone enactment successful the TV app. When asking Siri successful Netflix, Starz, and different streaming video services, you'll apt get a "subtitles are unavailable" mistake adjacent though determination are subtitles available.

Example Siri commands that work:

• "What did they say?"
• "What did helium say?"
• "What did she say?"

10. Find the Time Elsewhere

You tin programme the Clock app to amusement you the times successful different cities oregon countries via the World tab, but that's not a precise convenient mode to find determination else's clip erstwhile you request to cognize quickly. Instead, inquire Siri "what clip is it successful [Location]."

Example Siri commands that work:

• "What clip is it successful [City Name]?"

11. Add Stops During Navigation

On iOS 16 and later, you tin inquire Siri to "add a stop" during navigation. It'll past inquire you wherever you'd similar to go, and you tin respond with your desired stop. If there's much than 1 result, Siri volition amusement a database wherever you tin prime the 1 you want. That determination volition unfastened successful the Maps app, wherever you tin past pat "Add Stop" to get directions to that spot earlier the last destination.

Example Siri commands that work:

• "Add a stop"
• "Add a halt to [Location's Name]"

12. Add Items to Your Shopping List

Instead of typing retired your buying database point by item, archer Siri to adhd immoderate you conscionable thought of to your list. If you already person a database successful Reminders called Shopping List, Siri volition adhd the point to that. Otherwise, Siri volition inquire if you privation to make one, which would beryllium saved to your iCloud account. (You tin besides usage Siri to adhd items to different lists successful Reminders.)

Example Siri commands that work:

• "Add beverage to my buying list"
• "Add [item] to [list's name]"

13. Play the News

If you don't person clip to work the news, get a speedy little of the astir important caller events by asking Siri to "play the news." Siri volition play an audio study via the Podcasts app from your default quality source. If you don't similar your default, you tin say, "change to [News Source Name]," and Siri volition usage that from present on. You tin besides perceive a antithetic position by saying, "play quality from [News Source Name]." In the U.S., Apple News, CNN, Fox News, and NPR are each supported.

Example Siri commands that work:

• "Play the news"
• "Play the quality from [News Source Name]"
• "Change to [News Source Name]"

14. Find Specific Emails

If you request to find an email rapidly from a circumstantial interaction oregon regarding a peculiar subject, you tin inquire Siri to hunt for it. You tin lone hunt by interaction and taxable line, truthful you can't hunt the assemblage of emails with Siri yet.

Example Siri commands that work:

• "Find emails from [Contact]"
• "Find email astir [subject]"
• "Find [subject] emails"

15. Watch Trailers

When you privation to ticker oregon amusement idiosyncratic a movie oregon TV bid trailer, inquire Siri to play it. If it finds 1 match, it'll play it close distant successful the TV app. Otherwise, it'll inquire you to prime from aggregate results. If it can't find any, it'll accidental that nary trailer is available.

Example Siri commands that work:

• "[Title] trailer"
• "Trailer for [Title]"
• "Play the trailer for [Title]"
• "Play the [Title" trailer"

16. Share Things

Using the stock expanse to nonstop an article, TV show, oregon different point tin beryllium a lengthy process if the idiosyncratic is not successful the contact suggestions row. You tin skip each the enactment and inquire Siri to stock thing for you. For example, erstwhile viewing an nonfiction online oregon successful the News app, accidental "share this with [Contact]." If it's not thing Siri tin nonstop a nonstop nexus to, it volition instrumentality and nonstop a screenshot instead. Either way, you person to corroborate to nonstop it.

Example Siri commands that work:

• "Share this with [Contact]"
• "Share with [Contact]"
• "Share to [Contact]"

17. Call Emergency Services

If you're not a instrumentality of the hardware fastener triggers for contacting exigency services, you tin inquire Siri to interaction them instead. Just accidental "call 911" oregon inquire it to telephone immoderate exigency work you request to contact.

Example Siri commands that work:

• "Call 911"
• "911"

18. Find Your Stuff

If you can't find 1 of your Apple products, you tin usage Siri alternatively of opening the Find My app to assistance find the missing device. Just accidental "find my [device]," and if it's adjacent and online, it'll commencement playing a sound. If it's not online, the dependable volition play the adjacent clip the instrumentality gets online. This works connected immoderate instrumentality that Find My supports.

Example Siri commands that work:

• "Find my iPhone"
• "Find my iPad"
• "Find my iPod touch"
• "Find my MacBook"
• "Find my Apple Watch"
• "Find my AirPods"
• "Find my [AirTag Name]"
• "Find my [Chipolo Name]"
• "Find my [Swissdigital Name]"
• "Find my [Soundform Freedom Name]
• "Find my VanMoof bike"

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