Siri works with Phone, Mail, Safari, Music, Messages, Calendar, Reminders, Maps, Weather, Stocks, Notes, Clock and Contacts, as well as using services like Yelp and Wolfram Alpha online. If you don't find a result you like, you can ask "How about Chinese?" and the context of looking for food nearby is preserved. Similarly, if you're looking for a nearby place to eat, you can ask "Where's good for Mexican round here?" and Siri uses a combination of Yelp reviews and locations from Maps to offer some suggestions.
Ask about the weather – either directly or in a roundabout way, like "Do I need a coat today?" – and you'll get the forecast, but you can then go on to ask "how about in San Francisco" and Siri knows you're still talking about the weather. Mention that the reminder is to pick up milk from the grocery store, and Siri will automatically slot in a task in the new iOS 5 Reminders app, too.Īs for being able to combine commands, unlike other systems you can have a conversation with Siri.
Need a reminder? Tell Siri "set an alarm for 6pm" or "in twenty minutes" or "when I leave work" and the iPhone 4S will use a combination of the clock or your GPS position to do so. Once you make the mental adjustment, however, it quickly becomes addictive. In fact the most tricky thing with Siri initially is recognizing its potential: we're so used to reaching for our phone and tapping away that it took some time before we realized we could rely on the AI. More impressive, though, is Siri's ability to interact with multiple apps in one go: responding to a meeting request from a colleague, for instance, sees your calendar automatically checked for clashes – with the iPhone 4S flagging up any issues – and then a reply sent as well as a new entry slotted into your schedule. Incoming messages responded to by spoken command. Previous implementations of voice control have been contained, segmented: "Call Joe Smith" "Open Mail." Siri, though, can handle a phrase with multiple steps involved: "Tell my wife I'll be at the restaurant at eight" for instance will automatically open Messages and start a new SMS to your wife, with the text saying "I'll be at the restaurant at eight." Siri reads out the text – as well as showing it on screen – before sending it, and you can fire it off by simply saying "send." Where it gets incredibly flexible is in combining commands and intuiting meaning.
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