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It's casual to miss the updates Siri got with iOS 16, particularly if you're not an avid Siri user. Even if you usage Apple's virtual adjunct daily, you whitethorn beryllium amazed by each the large caller things it tin assistance you bash now.
Siri was designed to let you to pass with your iPhone and different devices that enactment it arsenic effortlessly arsenic possible. This often means interacting with your iPhone hands-free utilizing Hey Siri, but that's not each that Siri offers. The virtual adjunct becomes more intelligent with each caller iteration, providing you with galore tools for navigating your iPhone and getting the maximum retired of it.
Keep speechmaking to spot each the caller things you tin bash with Siri connected iOS 16.0 and later.
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1. Run Ready-to-Use Shortcuts
On iOS 16, Siri tin tally premade shortcuts from your installed apps without further setup. This is imaginable due to the fact that of the caller App Intents API, which lets developers make built-in, ready-to-use shortcuts for their apps. Instead of gathering your ain shortcuts for communal tasks successful the Shortcuts app, they're simply acceptable for you to use.
Not each apps see ready-to-use shortcuts, but you tin spot a database of them each successful the App Shortcuts conception successful the Shortcuts app. To usage them, summon Siri, past talk the rubric of the app shortcut. Some shortcuts whitethorn enactment synonyms, truthful you mightiness not person to usage the nonstop operation to tally the command. You tin besides tally them from Shortcuts oregon Spotlight.
2. Find Out What You Can Do
Siri tin beryllium precise helpful, but users often don't cognize each the ways they tin usage it. On iOS 16, if you initiate Siri from the Side oregon Home button, Hey Siri, oregon Type to Siri, "What tin I bash here?" volition assistance you find retired what's possible.
When you're successful an app that supports App Shortcuts (see above), it volition database the premade shortcuts available, but you tin besides inquire thing like, "What tin I bash with [App Name]." If determination are fewer oregon nary supported Siri actions for a circumstantial app, Siri volition suggest different things you tin usage Siri for, similar turning connected the flashlight.
Siri assistance is disposable for iPhones with an A12 Bionic spot oregon later. It works successful respective languages, including Cantonese (Hong Kong), English (Australia, Canada, India, U.K., U.S.), French (France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Mandarin Chinese (China mainland), and Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.).
3. Convert Text to Emoji
You tin present usage Siri to insert emoji characters into messages and notes by saying the emoji's sanction followed by the connection "emoji." For example, you tin accidental "smiley look emoji," "cat emoji," and "heart emoji" successful a row, and Siri volition person each into its associated emoji. Before iOS 16, Siri would spell retired the words instead.
This works for immoderate Apple oregon third-party app that lets Siri adhd oregon station text, specified arsenic Mail, Messages, Notes, Reminders, and WhatsApp. You tin besides adhd emoji using the Dictation tool successful apps.
Text-to-emoji with Siri is disposable for iPhones with an A12 Bionic spot oregon later. It works successful respective languages, including Cantonese (Hong Kong), English (Australia, Canada, India, U.K., U.S.), French (France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Mandarin Chinese (China mainland, Taiwan), and Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.).
4. Hang Up Calls
You whitethorn not ever beryllium capable to property a fastener connected your iPhone to extremity a telephone successful the FaceTime oregon Phone apps, and Siri tin assistance you successful those scenarios now. Just say, "Hey Siri, bent up" erstwhile you privation to extremity a conversation, and Siri volition disconnect the call. The different radical connected the telephone volition perceive you accidental it, but it's decidedly worthy it whenever you request to extremity a telephone hands-free.
It's not enabled by default, truthful you'll request to spell to Settings –> Siri & Search –> Call Hang Up, and toggle connected its switch. You tin besides bash truthful from Settings –> Accessibility –> Siri –> Call Hang Up.
Hanging up calls utilizing Siri works connected iPhone models with an A13 Bionic spot oregon later, meaning the iPhone 11 and newer. However, it besides works connected the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR (A12 Bionic devices) erstwhile utilizing AirPods oregon Siri-enabled Beats headphones. It works successful respective languages, including Cantonese (Hong Kong), English (Australia, Canada, India, U.K., U.S.), French (France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Mandarin Chinese (China mainland), and Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.).
5. Adjust Siri's Pause Time
Head to Settings –> Accessibility –> Siri, and you'll find a conception wherever you tin set the magnitude of Siri's intermission time, i.e., the magnitude of clip betwixt the infinitesimal you decorativeness speaking and erstwhile Siri answers. If Siri is perpetually responding to you earlier you inquire it your full question oregon command, alteration the magnitude from Default to either Longer oregon Longest to marque definite it captures your implicit request.
6. Announce Notifications connected Speaker
We could already marque Siri denote time-sensitive alerts, nonstop messages, oregon each notifications from apps implicit CarPlay, AirPods, and immoderate Beats headphones. But iOS 16 has an enactment to "Announce Notifications connected Speaker" via Settings –> Accessibility –> Siri. Switching the toggle connected unhides an "Announce Notifications" submenu, a shortcut to the aforesaid options disposable astatine Settings –> Siri & Search –> Announce Notifications.
As before, Siri volition debar interrupting you and volition perceive aft it reads the notifications to spot if you privation to respond without you having to invoke "Hey Siri." You'll announcement it astir connected your Lock Screen oregon erstwhile you're not utilizing your iPhone, arsenic agelong arsenic your iPhone isn't acceptable to Silent Mode.
7. Announce Notifications connected Hearing Devices
If you usage a Made for iPhone proceeding device, you tin yet marque Siri denote notifications erstwhile you're wearing it. The mounting should beryllium disposable via Settings –> Siri & Search –> Announce Notifications. If you don't spot it, you don't person immoderate MFi proceeding immunodeficiency oregon implants acceptable up connected your iPhone.
8. Enable/Disable Auto-Answer Calls
Before, you'd person to spell to Settings –> Accessibility –> Touch –> Call Audio Routing –> Auto-Answer Calls to alteration oregon disable the mounting that makes Siri reply calls for you successful FaceTime and Phone. On iOS 16, you tin inquire Siri to "turn on/off auto-answer," redeeming you important time. Still, you'll person to spell to the Auto-Answer Calls preferences to set the hold clip earlier Siri picks up.
9. Enable Automatic Message Sending
It's not caller that you tin usage Siri to constitute and nonstop a message, but it ever requires you to manually corroborate that you privation to nonstop it. However, iOS 16 lets you bypass the manual confirmation via Settings –> Siri & Search –> Automatically Send Messages, and you tin power if it works implicit CarPlay, headphones, oregon proceeding devices. Once enabled, Siri volition nonstop the connection automatically aft 4 oregon 5 seconds unless you cancel it.
10. Shazammed Songs Finally Sync
You could already inquire Hey Siri to place a opus playing utilizing Shazam, but the results would not sync with the Shazam app and Control Center's Music Recognition control. On iOS 16, everything yet syncs up, truthful you'll ne'er person a occupation uncovering a way you Shazammed.
11. More Offline Functionality
On iOS 16, Siri tin process adjacent much requests erstwhile your iPhone is offline. This includes interactions with astute location controls (HomeKit devices), notifications, voicemails, and intercom requests.
Epanded offline enactment works connected iPhones with an A12 Bionic spot oregon later. It works successful respective languages, including Cantonese (Hong Kong), English (Australia, Canada, India, U.K., U.S.), French (France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Mandarin Chinese (China mainland), and Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.).
12. More Accurate App Clip Suggestions
App Clips whitethorn look successful the Siri Suggestions widget (and Spotlight) whenever your iPhone thinks you whitethorn request them, but iOS 16 adds precise determination suggestions that marque it adjacent much apt you'll spot the close App Clip astatine the close time. For example, the Siri Suggestions widget mightiness amusement you a restaurant's App Clip to wage for your repast erstwhile eating out. (App Clips are parts of an app that enactment connected the spot without installing the full app.)
13. Prefer Silent Responses
Siri's dependable feedback settings were beauteous confusing connected iOS 16.1 and earlier, but iOS 16.2 clears things up a bit, by adding a caller "Prefer Silent Responses" option. In earlier iOS 16 versions, determination were lone choices for "Automatic" and "Prefer Spoken Responses."
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