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From personal experience, I’ve found that smart assistants like Siri can play a significant role in enhancing productivity. To harness the full potential of Siri Commands, let’s explore some useful ones that can improve your own experience with this pseudo-AI.

1. One Time Alarms

When a non-repeating alarm is triggered, they’re disabled rather than deleted, which can lead to clutter if you don’t remove them.

Solution

The Siri command “Set a timer for [time]” is an efficient solution, as timers vanish once they go off, removing the need to delete them later. This command ensures you receive timely alerts without adding to your list of inactive alarms, providing an effective alternative to one time alarms.

At 1:35pm, saying “Siri, set a timer for 2pm,” will set a timer for 25 minutes.

2. Hand-free calling

Have you started a phone call with Siri, then switched the output to Speaker?

Solution

Starting phone calls is more seamless and hands-free with Siri. By saying “Siri, call [name] on speaker.” the call will start with the output already set to the Speaker. This command has proven very useful for hands-free communication in my day-to-day life.

3. Shazam

Have you ever heard a song that you liked right away, but couldn’t find out its name?

Solution

Music lovers can leverage Siri’s integration with Shazam to identify songs playing nearby, or even through connected headphones. Ask, “What song is this?” and Siri will identify the current song. This feature is handy for finding music you enjoy but don’t recognize.

To make this feature even cooler, you don’t even need Shazam installed to use this integration.

Though having it installed provides some extra features.

4. Reader Mode

Have you opened a webpage, and just thought: “I wish I didn’t have to read all this!”

Solution

Siri can improve your browsing by reading for you. Should you find yourself on a webpage you’d rather listen to, the command “Siri, read this” prompts Siri to read the page’s content aloud. This can be useful when multitasking or when other responsibilities make reading difficult.

5. …

Do you find Siri boring?

Solution

Last of all, Siri can also be entertaining. When you say, “OK Google,” “Hey Cortana,” or “Alexa,” Siri provides some interesting replies. There are other smart assistant commands, which I could only call Easter eggs. Exploring these can add a touch of humor to your interactions with Siri.

Conclusion

Learning these commands can streamline your routine and increase Siri’s usefulness. Ultimately, making various tasks more manageable and efficient.

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Credits

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