You have two options for using the Siri buttom located on the remote's right side. These two options do different tasks, and one of these options takes you out of whatever app you were in when you pressed it. So you need to keep that in mind.
You can set the option in
Settings --> General --> Siri --> ON or
OFF. Read on to understand what the options do.
Here is the breakdown.
Siri button default option Awakens Siri
- Press Siri button to have Siri awaken and listen for your command.
- Give a command to Siri.
- Press the Siri button without giving a spoken command to close Siri and return to the app you were in.
In this option, if you accidentally press the Siri button, the colorful, animated Siri icon appears on your screen hovering above whatever was going on in the currently opened app. You can press the Siri button again and it closes, leaving you where you were inside whichever app you were running.
Siri button Search page option
- Press Siri button to leave the currently open app and go to the Search page.
- Hold down Siri button to speak a search phrase.
- Pressing the Siri button again doesn't close the Search page, it merely keeps you on it. To leave the Search page either select a search item to view, or use the Left Arrow (Back) or the Home button to close it.
In this option, if you accidentally press the Siri button, you leave the app that was currently running and go to the Search page. Pressing the Siri button again won't take you back to the app that was running. Instead you will need to close the Search page, go to the Home or Apps page, reselect your app, then navigate back inside the app to where you were before you screwed up and accidentally pressed the Siri button.
Conclusion
If you want the easiest Siri button function to recover from after an accidental pressing of the Siri button, use the default setting which awakens Siri but keeps the current app running. You can easily ask Siri to take you to the Search page if you desire, or anything else you might want to ask, or quickly close Siri. If you select to use the Search page function, you will miss part of whatever was going on in the app that was running when you accidentally pressed the Siri button, and you will have to navigate back to the app and the place within the app you had been.
How to Set the Siri Button Options
- Open Settings
- Select General
- Select Siri
- Either select ON to use the default option, or select OFF to use the go to Search page option.
Personally, I find the default option to be the best. I wish they had a 3rd option to completely disable the button, but maybe they will add that later. Being left-handed, I thought I wouldn't accidentally press the Siri button, and I don't while I’m holding the remote, but sometimes I do press it when I reach over to pick up the remote. I'll just have to learn to avoid doing that when I pick it up. I suspect right-handed people will accidentally press it while holding the remote.
