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Siri Tip of the Day: Get driving directions and avoid highways!

Sometimes you want to take the scenic route. Siri will give it to you, if you ask. With Siri, you never know what will work, so if it doesn’t work, try changing up your phrasing.

Author Christian BoycePosted on December 7, 2020December 7, 2020Categories Siri, TipsTags Maps, SiriLeave a comment on Siri Tip of the Day: Get driving directions and avoid highways!

Quickly find the iPhone Settings you’re looking for

How can you find the setting you need out of the thousands on the iPhone? This article describes four methods.

Author Christian BoycePosted on July 23, 2020September 27, 2020Categories Siri, TipsTags SettingsLeave a comment on Quickly find the iPhone Settings you’re looking for

Siri Tip of the Day: go directly to any iOS app’s settings

Quit hunting around in the iOS Settings app, looking for some setting. Instead, ask Siri. Siri can take you right where you need to go.

Author Christian BoycePosted on December 14, 2019November 18, 2020Categories Siri, TipsTags Settings, SiriLeave a comment on Siri Tip of the Day: go directly to any iOS app’s settings

Siri Tip of the Day: What Song is that?

You can ask Siri to listen to the music and tell you what’s playing. Yes, this is Shazam, but Apple bought them, and now it’s part of Siri.

Author Christian BoycePosted on September 8, 2019September 8, 2019Categories SiriTags music, SiriLeave a comment on Siri Tip of the Day: What Song is that?

Siri Tip of the Day: What’s my Elevation?

Want to know your elevation? Just ask Siri. This works on phones from the iPhone 6 and newer as they have a barometer to measure pressure.

Author Christian BoycePosted on June 27, 2019January 20, 2020Categories Siri, TipsTags SiriLeave a comment on Siri Tip of the Day: What’s my Elevation?

Siri Tip of the Day: Translate

Use Siri to translate from nine foreign languages into English. See the translation, and hear it also. It’s as easy as “How do you say…”

Author Christian BoycePosted on June 2, 2019January 20, 2020Categories Siri, TipsTags Siri, TranslationLeave a comment on Siri Tip of the Day: Translate

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Latest iOS Version

The latest iOS version is 16.4, released Monday, March 27th, 2023. This is an important bug-fix update which also includes new emoji and some automation features. If you are using any version of iOS 16, get this 16.4 iOS update. iPadOS was also updated to 16.4. If you are using any version of iPadOS 16, get the 16.4 iPadOS update. iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 also received updates Monday, March 27th, 2023, to 15.7.4. If you want to stay on iOS 15 or iPadOS 15, that's fine-- but get the 15.7.4 update.
You can read a little more about Apple's updates on Apple's site,.

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