How to Use Siri on iPhone and iPad

[Spanky Deluxe]

Plenty of uses for it in the car.

How does it activate so much by accident?

My car's bluetooth isn't that great so it doesn't activate most of the time I try it and my wife's car is a pretty new BMW where I find it much easier to just use the iDrive to make calls.

I find accidental holds of the home button often activate it but the main culprit is the 'hold up to your face to activate Siri' feature which seems to activate in hand quite a lot.

 

[C DM]

My car's bluetooth isn't that great so it doesn't activate most of the time I try it and my wife's car is a pretty new BMW where I find it much easier to just use the iDrive to make calls.

I find accidental holds of the home button often activate it but the main culprit is the 'hold up to your face to activate Siri' feature which seems to activate in hand quite a lot.

Wasn't raise to speak feature for Siri removed in iOS 8? And if that feature activates when not being raised to the face seems like the issue is likely more with hardware sensor used for that than Siri. (As I recall that option can be easily disabled as well if it's not being actually used and is resulting in some trouble.)

 

[oneMadRssn]

Do you even realize how stupid that is? You do know the original purpose of a phone, right? Making a phone call? That involves talking into a phone.

There's nothing weird at all about talking into a PHONE. How times have changed where people think it's now weird to TALK into a communication device.

Do you realize that original phones weren't used in public?

Until the cell phones became ubiquitous in the late 90s, most phone calls were made in the privacy of a home, office, or phone booth. Even phone booths that weren't enclosed were often off to the side in a designated area.

And even for the very short time in history that mobile phones have been common, nearly everyone agrees that being next to someone on the phone is annoying. See half the comments from this thread as an example. This also applies to subway trains, coffee shops and restaurants, store checkout lines and bus stops, movie theaters and stadiums, and pretty much any place where you are in public and stationary.

I'm not saying all public phone conversation are annoying. I don't think the people that are walking down a street while on the phone are annoying - because they aren't next to anyone for an extended time. And I have seen people be polite about a quick chat on the subway. But in general, talking into a gadget in public when surrounded by other people is obnoxious.

 

[C DM]

Do you realize that original phones weren't used in public?

Until the cell phones became ubiquitous in the late 90s, most phone calls were made in the privacy of a home, office, or phone booth. Even phone booths that weren't enclosed were often off to the side in a designated area.

And even for the very short time in history that mobile phones have been common, nearly everyone agrees that being next to someone on the phone is annoying. See half the comments from this thread as an example. This also applies to subway trains, coffee shops and restaurants, store checkout lines and bus stops, movie theaters and stadiums, and pretty much any place where you are in public and stationary.

I'm not saying all public phone conversation are annoying. I don't think the people that are walking down a street while on the phone are annoying - because they aren't next to anyone for an extended time. And I have seen people be polite about a quick chat on the subway. But in general, talking into a gadget in public when surrounded by other people is obnoxious.

Versus standing or walking or sitting and talking to someone else next you in public, which has been going on throughout the existence of humanity? The absence of a physical person is really something that makes it so much different?

 

[oneMadRssn]

Versus standing or walking or sitting and talking to someone else next you in public, which has been going on throughout the existence of humanity? The absence of a physical person is really something that makes it so much different?

Yes, it does. For two reasons - volume and harmony.

People talk louder, much louder, into electronic devices. Also, without a second person there, there is no one to either tell the speaker outright or to give the speaker a subtle cue that they're talking too loud.

A conversation between two people tends to have a flow and continuity to it. - it becomes one harmonious noise. When you're only hearing one side of it, you get periods of talking (often loudly, see above) and then periods of quiet; basically peaks and valleys of noise. So it disrupts you every time that person begins talking, instead of just once.

Anyone who has ever been a restaurant when someone answers their phone knows this. Even though a restaurant is full of many ongoing conversations between 2 or more people at once, everyone can hear the jerk on the phone most clearly.

 

[frifra]

"Siri, start the stopwatch"
"I can't help you with the stopwatch".

"Siri tell me a joke"
Siri tells really lame or only really lame corny jokes.

"Siri, activate AirPlay"
"You don't seem to have an app named Airplay...."
"Here is what I found on the web..."

 

[pjamieson]

There is nothing graceful about someone talking into their phone in public.

"Text mom, the doctor said to just apply a cream for a few weeks."
"Siri, how are the Red Skins doing?"
"Add a reminder, buy 50 Shades of Gray next time I'm near Barnes and Noble."

And now we can watch people talking to their wrists .. lol

 

[ron7624]

I use Seri often. For those of you that have problems with Seri misunderstanding your command, well slow down your speech a bit.
I for one liked this article. It reminded of other ways to use her.