50 BEST Siri SECRETS

Siri, your digital personal assistant, has been a part of macOS for years now and it grows in efficiency and effectiveness with each new system update. But how many of us even remember to use Siri and, when we do, how many of us bother to drill down into its many uses and the time-saving shortcuts it can provide? Unlike your iPhone, which listens out for “Hey Siri” commands like an attentive, twitching canine eager to serve its master, Siri must be summoned on Mac by either pressing a determined keyboard shortcut or clicking on the Siri icon in your Mac’s menu bar. But this extra effort pays dividends, for example, in the time it would usually take you to access and tweak settings in System Preferences, look up information on the internet, or search for files.

In this feature we share our favourite Siri commands for lightening our workload and improving productivity, as well as revealing what you can say to access Siri’s more playful side.

Let Siri control your music

You can call on Siri to control all aspects of your music playback. Here are some of the many things that Siri can do in the Music app.

1 Train Siri

You’ll need to put in a little groundwork training to get Siri to work efficiently – and you can start with your contacts. Click on the Siri icon and tell Siri what relationship certain contacts are to you. For example, say, “Dave is my father,” and Siri will offer to update your contact card.

2 Say it right

If Siri has trouble pronouncing certain names correctly then you can rectify this by saying, “Learn how to pronounce [contact name].” Siri will then provide a selection of different pronunciations that