Your iPhone Has a New Siri Voice Command You'll Want to Know About - CNET

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Siri allows you to bash truthful overmuch with your voice. You tin bash basal things similar marque a telephone telephone oregon get directions, but it tin besides get much analyzable -- possibly you privation to propulsion up each the movie showtimes for your section theater. And nary of this requires the usage of your hands.

Apple is ever adding caller commands to Siri, and with the somewhat caller merchandise of iOS 16, there's 1 peculiar summation I'm astir excited about. 

You tin yet usage your dependable to restart your iPhone.

Anytime I announcement a bundle contented with my iPhone, similar applications automatically force-closing, a laggy operating strategy oregon unresponsive features, I reboot my instrumentality to hopefully hole these bugs. And galore times it does.

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However, the lone mode to restart my iPhone is by either turning the telephone disconnected and connected oregon force-restarting it. Both of these options necessitate the usage of my hands, and instrumentality respective steps, but present it's truthful overmuch easier acknowledgment to iOS 16. If you're having immoderate issues and request to reboot your device, here's however to bash it with conscionable your voice.

You should besides cheque retired these 10 hidden iOS 16 features for your iPhone and everything you request to recognize your iPhone's latest bundle update.

Restart your iPhone utilizing this elemental dependable command

As agelong arsenic you person the "Hey Siri" diagnostic enabled, which perpetually listens for the two-letter command, you tin accidental the pursuing to restart your iPhone:

• First, accidental "Hey Siri" to activate Siri.
• Next, accidental "Restart iPhone."
• And last, accidental "Yes" erstwhile Siri prompts you to confirm.

Your iPhone volition past restart. You'll request to participate your passcode to unlock your screen.

You tin besides pat connected Restart to confirm.

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You tin besides usage this caller diagnostic connected the iPad, but you'll request to beryllium moving astatine slightest iPadOS 16.1.

If you don't person "Hey Siri" enabled, you tin to Settings > Siri & Search and toggle connected Listen for "Hey Siri." If you don't privation your iPhone listening for this bid each the time, you tin ever conscionable activate Siri by holding down connected the broadside fastener for a second, though this does decision the full hands-free facet of restarting your iPhone.