Having covered the main new features of macOS Sonoma, let’s take a look at what else it offers. For example, if you set up Siri to react to a spoken instruction, on Apple silicon Macs that instruction can now simply be ‘Siri’, not ‘Hey Siri’. A useful change, especially if you’ve got so into the habit of saying ‘Hey Siri’ that you say, ‘Hey Alexa’ when waking an Amazon device.
To change the wake instruction for Apple’s personal digital assistant, first open the System Settings app from the Apple menu in the top-left corner of your screen. In the left-hand sidebar, click on Siri & Spotlight. Then, in the right-hand window, make sure the Ask Siri switch at the top is on. Below this switch is a pull-down menu (the default position of which is ‘Off’) that lets you turn on the wake words, so you can summon Siri with your voice as well as by clicking on the Siri icon in the top bar. From this menu, choose ‘Siri or Hey Siri’ if you want either to wake the digital assistant, or
