Mastering Siri (Empire From Your iPhone - Part 1)

1. Introduction: Hi guys, and welcome to Empire from your iPhone, a series of courses that help you use the core Apple productivity apps to run your own personal and work Empire will focus initially on your iPhone, but branch out into how these apps into play with the other Apple devices such as your iPad, your Mac, your Apple TV, and other Apple devices. I'm Anthony and educator, Course Leader, Speaker and YouTuber. I've worked in small and large organizations, run my own businesses on side hustles for over 25 years, throughout that time, developed something of an obsession with personal productivity and learning. This first course is a short fun course in how you can use Siri to interact with your phone most effectively and efficiently, from a useful hands-free commands through to the Seriously time-saving and productive commands to learn. Mastering Syria will give you a really efficient way to learn to use Apple's voice command AI tool. It will also lay the groundwork for understanding Apple's ecosystem better. I'm preparing you for the following courses, starting with notes and reminders. I hope you find this course fun and informative. I look forward to seeing you inside this and other courses. 2. What and How: Hi, I'm Anthony lays, and this is the first course in the empire from your iPhone series. In this course, we'll be looking at siri, will be finding out what it has to offer and how you can use it to make yourself more efficient and more effective. So in this first session, we're gonna be looking particularly at the how and the what in terms of what is Siri? Siri, as it says, there is primarily a personal assistant. It works on your iOS devices. So your iPhone, your iPad, your Mac, your Apple TV, and your Apple Watch. And it's used via voice recognition, so you speak to it, and it will speak back to you and also display things on your iOS device in support of what you've asked. It's powered by artificial intelligence. So it improves over time, gets better at interpreting what you're saying and better understanding perhaps what you mean by what you say. And it's also hands-free on newer phones, on older iPhones, you'd have to hold down the Home button. But we're going to deal with both of those situations throughout the course. 3. Using Siri: Before we go ahead and set up Siri, let's just take a quick look at what Siri actually does. So there's two ways now to use Siri. If you have a Home button on your device, the first one would be to hold down the Home button. And then you would want to say Siri, and then the sentence that you want to ask. And then afterwards released the home button. That takes a couple of practices to make sure that you're speaking clearly and that you don't let go of the home button until after you've finished the entire question. The second way is to enable the always listening mode. And in that situation, siri will always be listening to what you say. So you'd need to say an example like this. Hey Siri, what time is it? 16, 33. And because Siri was always listening, it didn't lead me to hold down any of the buttons. It would just happen. Now if you change your mind halfway through, then you can say cancel or you can just click away from the icon that appears when Syria is listening. 4. Avoiding Digital Distractions: So now we've learned to use Siri. We're going to spend a couple of minutes thinking about why. And for that reason, I've put in a couple of lessons to this course now around reading this first book I'm going to share with you, digital minimalism by Cal Newport is a really great example. You can see cow starts to talk about the definitively doesn't reject the innovations of the Internet age. But instead of objects the way that so many people currently engaged with these tools. And this to me is really important. He says Digital minimalism as a philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value and then happily miss out on everything else. And that's the key to me. The last person to tell you your mobile phones, not a really powerful and very useful tool. But I know every time I pick it up, I quite often get distracted by what I find on it rather than going straight tool, the tool I want, as he says, simply put, humans are not wired to be constantly wired. So all of the different tools we're going to learn to use through Siri on your mobile device today. We're going to be thinking about the engaging with them through Siri is a much better method because it stops us getting distracted by all of the other interesting apps, games, social media platforms, and all those things that could sidetrack us from the task that we're trying to do to start with, let's move on. 5. Siri Quick Setup: Okay, Let's do the fast setup on Siri to get you up and running quickly. So the first thing I'm gonna do is go into my settings app, which you can see is the top rightmost app on my screen. Now, once I'm in that, I'm going to go and find the series settings. So you'll find it halfway down in this general group. And it's halfway down that group called Syrian search on older iPhones, it might just be called Series still. When I click on that, it then gives me the options I need to get Siri working and we're interested in those top options to start with. So first of all, I'm going to turn on, listen for Hey Siri, and then choose enable. I'm from there. It then wants to run a setup of Hey Siri with me. So we'll let it do this to recognize my voice. Hey Siri. Hey Siri. Send a message. Hey Siri, what's the weather like today? Hey Siri, set a timer for 3 min. Hey Siri, play some music. Okay, so by going through that setup process, Siri will now recognize enough different words that I say in my own voice to be able to start to learn the way that I speak. Now we've got some other options here. This second option, Press side button for Siri is something that we didn't cover initially. We talked about using the Home button on older iPhones and holding that down before you say Siri and the sentence. And we talked about enabling the listen for Hey Siri option so that it was always listening. Now the third option is for devices such as iPads, iPad Pros, and the newer iPhones, that if you want to, you can use that side button. You often turn on and off with to make that are listening choice. So there we go. I've toggled back on as well. And now when I press that button, Siri will be listening that way as well. Now the third option that you might want to enable this to allow siri to be used when your device is locked. So I'm going to turn that off. There we go. And it asked for my pass code, which I quickly put in there as well. Before we move on, let's just look at the next two choices. Language. So I'm going to stay with English United Kingdom because that's most appropriate for me. And then I'm just going to look under the voice options where here it's giving me a choice of voices that it can choose from with accents and also with a couple of voices for each. So that I can really have some customization in how Siri speaks back to me. Okay, so now that we've done that, we've looked at the options that you can toggle on and off. And we've also looked at setting the voice, language and gender. And that gets us up and running with Siri will cover some of these other options that are available in the Syrian search menu a little bit later in the course. But let's get going. 6. Quick Checks with Time: Okay, let's get some quick checks under our belt just to see some of the ways that Siri can help us. Hey, Siri, what time is it? It's 16, 53. Hey Siri. What time is it in Holland? In Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It's 17 53. Hey Siri, what dataset? It's Sunday, the 15th of August, 2021. And let's just see how we can try out different types of grammar. Hey, Siri, what's the date today? It's Sunday, the 15th of August, 2021. Hey, Siri. What's the date? Next Thursday. It's Thursday, the 26th of August, 2021. So being able to do quick checks like that without needing to take your phone out of your pocket, swiping and open it up and sign in. A really, really useful and another great tip that's a good starting point to any of your expeditions into this is this question. Hey, Siri, what else can I ask you to help jet to know Siri is apple.com. And from that link, you can access all sorts of resources that will help with this. So in the following lessons, we're gonna be exploring a wide range of ways that we can use Siri in different contexts to speed us up, to make us more efficient and to help us get the most out of our device. So your first task before we go on to the next lesson is to try out some of these quick checks about time and date with Siri and get familiar with those. 7. Weather: Okay, now you've mastered the time and date. Let's go on to finding out about the weather. Would Siri hey, Siri, what's the weather today? It's currently cloudy and 19 degrees expect partly cloudy skies starting tonight, temperatures are heading down from 19 degrees to 16 tonight. And if I choose to, I can click on the card that appears I've opened the weather app to find out more. Let's try some of the different grammar we can use with Siri around whether, hey Siri, what's the temperature today? The high temperature today will be 19 degrees and the low will be 14. Hey Siri, what's the weather this weekend? It's currently cloudy and 19 degrees expect partly cloudy skies starting tonight, temperatures are heading down from 19 degrees to 16 tonight. Hi, sorry. What's the weather like in Bristol? It's currently Claudia and 18 degrees in Bristol expect rain and cloudy skies starting early in the morning with mixed conditions for the rest of the day, temperatures will be fairly consistent, averaging about 18 degrees. Hey Siri, how windy is exited today? The wind speed will be up to 11 mph southwest today. Hi, Sorry. Is it likely to snow today? It doesn't look like it's going to snow today. Hey, Siri, Will it rain tomorrow? It doesn't look like it's going to rain tomorrow. So you can see that actually there we've tried out quite a range of different sentence structures. And Siri has interpreted all of them and come back with useful results about the likelihood of different weather. So before we move on to the next lesson, why don't you have a go at trying out some of those structures for yourself and seeing just how useful siri can be at giving you where the data that's relevant way you are. 8. C008 L06a Become More Intentional with Siri: So before we move on to looking at exactly how to open apps using Siri, I just want to spend a little bit more time talking about the reason to do it via Siri, via other methods. And a little while ago we were looking at digital millimeters by Cal Newport and we were thinking about how digital distractions can be detrimental to our productivity and our workflow. And I'm just going to back that up with this book, Make Time by Zach Knapp and John Carroll, Cki, who talk about a similar thing. They say you only waste time if you're not intentional about how you spend it. And so as we're going to move into looking at opening different apps via Siri. I think it's really useful to know that we can do that because it stops us getting sidetracked, as they say here, every time you check your email or another message service, you're basically saying, does any random person need my time right now? And I know that approach of starting with whatever I'm doing on my device from the point of which I want to do something rather than opening it and seeing what appears is a great thing. So back to being able to do practical things like keeping my phone in my pocket, my jacket pocket, my trouser pocket, whatever it is, or just on the dashboard or on the table. Thus practically really good. But here's another reason why it's really useful to work that way as well. 9. Opening Apps: The next really useful skill we have to try out with Siri is opening apps, which saves a lot of time, rather than having to scroll through different screens, open different folders to see where you can remember to file an app you need. Now, you can just ask Siri to do it. Hey, Siri, open drafts. And there we go. The apps opened. No problem, no foss. Hey Siri, could you open settings? So that is a real game changer for me because it means that Siri can handle opening apps for me without me needing to search for them with the search box, without me having to flip back and forth between screens or go into different folders and remember where each one is. Why don't you try that now, getting Siri to open a few different apps for you and see if it recognizes even some of the apps with more complicated names. Hey, Siri, open pocket costs. No problem. 10. My Contact Card: For the next set of ways to use Siri, we're going to need to work with our contacts list. So the first thing we're gonna do is set up our own info card. Hey Siri, open settings. So we're gonna go back into Settings. We're gonna go into that Siri and search area we were in before. And now underneath the options that we were looking at before, we can see just above Syrian dictation, there is my information. And when I click on that, it's going to open my address book. So what I'm going to do here, his search for myself, and then choose the entry that I want to be my card. This means that now overtime, we can add information about ourselves and the relationships we have two others too, that card and Siri, we use that information to be faster at doing things we want. So let's try that out in the next few lessons. Your first job now is to go into settings and choose yourself from your contact library. 11. Making Calls: So we've tried out some really, really helpful ways to get Siri inaction to make your life easier and speed up the things you do. The next thing we're going to do is look up getting Siri to make calls for you. And this is one of those things that is really handy, especially when your hands aren't free because you're doing something else. So let's try out a couple of different options with this. Hey Siri, call Kate, please know vial. And there we go. So just by saying call and then the name series using my address book and dialing the default number. So let's try that with different grammar. Hey Siri, phone josh, calling Joshua please. Again, the same thing happens. Siri makes the call, but just uses the alternative grammar of phone rather than call. So it's happy with both. Let's try this. Hey Siri, call this E mobile, calling ICs. And there we go. So in that context, you can specify different types of phone from mobile, business, home, personal, the different things that you'll phone numbers might be named in your address book. Let's try out something else. Hey Siri, call Josh on speakerphone, cooling Joshua Lee's know biome speaker. And you can see in that situation, it started to make the call, but automatically opened the call on speaker phone rather than with the earpiece. Okay, we can also add nicknames, and this is really helpful and this is also the reason that we enabled that contact card a minute ago. Hey, Siri. Kate is my wife. Okay. Do you want me to remember that Katie's is your wife? Yes. I noted Katie's is your wife. Okay. Let's use that information now. Hey, Siri, call wife. Hi, I'm Kate, immobile. And there we go. In that situation, we've now added a nickname. So your first job in a minute is to go through and teach Siri all of the important relationships you have with siblings, with parents, with children, all members of your family, maybe nicknames for other people in your life so that Siri knows all of the different relationships you might use, and then you can phone those people using the nicknames facility in Siri. Things change, your relationships change. Maybe the person you've set as boyfriend or girlfriend no longer should be that in your card. So let's go in and make that change. I'm going to go into my address book and then go and find my own card. And now when I go into this card, we can see here, but wife now has Kate leases contact information set with it. Well, let's edit this. And what do I need to do now is next to where it says wife, Kaitlyn, I'm just going to click the red Delete icon there and then confirm it so that that person is no longer registered by Siri or bad or undo that though quickly. 12. Making Calls by Number: As well as making calls using Siri direct from your phone book. You can also give Siri the number you want it to call. Let's try that now. Hey, Siri, call 0 123-412-3123. Calling 0, 123-412-3123. There we go. Siri can make that call direct by us just giving the number. Why don't you give that a go as well? 13. Voicemail: What we're looking at the phone call features. Let's get Siri to check our voicemail. Hey, Siri, play my voicemail. You don't have any new voicemails? That's great. If I did, siri would be able to play those to me as well. After you hear the message, siri will ask you if you want to hear it again, save it, or delete it, or call the person back. So why don't you try that out. Check your voicemail via Syria as well. 14. Staying Present by Using Siri: So before we look at how to access FaceTime and contacts and messages and things like that through Siri. I just wanted to again think of another reason why it's useful to do so. This book by Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last is a great place to start. He says, the time we spend getting to know people when we're not working as part of what it takes to form bonds of trust. It's the exact same reason why eating together and doing things as a family really matters equally as important. Our conferences, company picnics and the time we spend around the water cooler. What he's really saying here is about the importance of when you're spending time. Actually spend time be present in the moment, don't be distracted by other things. He goes on and says, Trust is not formed through a screen, it's formed across a table. It takes a handshake to bind humans, are no technology yet can replace that. There is no such thing as virtual trust in that way to me being able to keep my phone out the way and being able to focus on the person I'm talking to is really key. If I can just dictate a message or open something and make something happen without needing to actually take out, stare at my screen and having that block between me and the other person. That's really key. Cigarettes around social media, the drug or the 21st century, but at least people who smoke stand outside together. So he really reinforces that point, that face-to-face communication is great. And to me using Siri and the way we're learning to now really helps with that. It gets the screen out of the line of conversation, keeps me communicating and present in the moment. Let's move on again. 15. FaceTime: To round off the cooling section of our course, let's have a look at FaceTime calls now. This time, we're going to ask Siri to make a FaceTime call and let's look at how the grammar for this could work. Hey Siri, call mom on FaceTime and making a FaceTime calls anomalies. And there we go. That time it started a FaceTime call for us as well. Why don't you try out using the FaceTime call and use it in combination with some of the other facilities. Have you set up some nicknames? Can you FaceTime call using your nicknames as well. 16. Sending Text Messages: I'm there ends the calling and phone calls parts of the course. Now let's move on and look at what we can do with text messages. To start off with, we'll look at getting Siri to read to us, Hey, Siri, read my texts. Lately, sent a new message. Can you pick up some milk on your way home? Would you like to reply? Yes. What do you want to say? Yes. I'll stop off at the shop. You reply to Katie's says Yes, I will stop over the sharp ready to send it? Yes. Okay. It's sent. Okay. No other messages. Let's try something else. Let's just send a text message now. Hey Siri, text Kate, what do you want to say? I'll be home in half an hour. Your message to Katie's says I'll be home in half an hour, ready to send it. Please read it to me. Your message to Caitlin says I'll be home in half an hour, ready to send it. Please change it. Okay. Go ahead. I'll be home in 45 min. Your message to Katie says, I'll be home in 45 min, ready to send it? Yes. Okay. So there we go. You can see in that process, I only actually needed to address Siri once at the beginning of the process to send the text. And after that, Siri guided me through the conversation, asking me at each interval whether I was happy and whether I wanted to send things as they were. There's also some extra grammar for there isn't there around. Please read it to me or please change it. Statements that you can use using normal plain English that Siri responded to and adapted the text for me. So why don't you try out now sending some texts yourself using those formats yourself. 17. Set a Title: Okay, let's have some fun getting Siri to address view with a certain title. I need to feel a bit better about myself. So let's see what we would ask in order to get surgery to address us in different ways. Hey, Siri, could you call me Your Highness? Okay. You'd like me to call you a highness? Yes. Okay. Your Highness, it is. So now that title has been added to my contact card as well. So now whenever Syria dresses me, it will call me, Your Highness. All feel great. Not ideal though. Hey Siri, could you call me and from now on, I'll call you on. Okay. No. Alright. Then I went, Hey, Siri, could you call me? Okay. You'd like me to call you on? No. No problem. I went, Hey, sorry. Could you call me? From now on I'll call you out. Okay. No. Okay. I weren't Hey, Siri, could you call me from now on I'll call you owned. Okay. No no problem. I went, Hey, sorry. Could you call me Anthony from now on? I'll call you anthony. Okay. Yes. Okay. Anthony and his wedding set yourself a nickname that you want sorry to call you. 18. Calculations: Right, Let's get Siri to do some calculating for us. Let's see what different ways we can use Siri to make life easier with calculation. Hey Siri, how many kilometers are there in 3 mi? 3 mi is 4.83 kilometres. Hey Siri, what is eight pounds in kilograms is 3.63 kg. So you can use Siri to perform all sorts of equivalence calculations. But let's try some other more real-world situations, perhaps. Hey Siri, what is a 25% tip on $35? 25% tip on $35 is $8.75. Let's try something a bit more challenging. Hey Siri, what is 30/4 plus 15% divided by four times one plus 15% is 8.625. So there's all sorts of situations you can see where it's really useful to be able to get Siri to do the calculating and converting for you. Why don't you try out some now, see if you can get surgery to do some calculations and conversions for you and even workout some tips. 19. Calendar: So using the calendar built into your iPhone is a great way to help stay on top of your commitments and manage your time. Let's have a look at what happens when we get Siri involved in organizing that. Hey, Siri, on my schedule for today, you have one appointment at 11:00. Talk about Siri us really helpful. So siri can tell me what's going on in my life. Let's look at making appointments with Syria as well. Hey, Siri set a Dr. appointment for October 5th at 5PM. I scheduled your appointment on the 5th of October 2021 from 1,700 h to 1,800 h. The appointment is called Dr. so as long as we use a time, a date, and a title, we can set events for our calendar using Siri. Now let's look at how changing events that already exist as well. Hey, Siri, open my Dr. appointment. You have one appointment about Dr. on Tuesday at 1,700 h. Dr. Hey, Siri, change the appointment to 01:00 P.M. tomorrow. Your appointments called. Dr. will be tomorrow from 1,300 h to 1,400 ours. Ready to update it? Yes. It's in your calendar for tomorrow from 1,300 h to 1,400 h. He appointment is called Dr. so that works really smoothly because by default, Siri will look three months ahead to see what appointments you have. If you're looking for an appointment further than that, you need to tell Siri the date as well. Okay. Now, let's look at what happens when meetings conflict. Hey, Siri set a lunch appointment for 01:00 P.M. tomorrow. You have an appointment about Dr. that overlaps with this. Should I schedule your appointments about lunch tomorrow from 1,300 h to $1,400 anyway? No. Change it to 02:00 P.M. I showed you on your appointment for tomorrow from 1,400 h to 1,500 h. The appointment is called lunch. So that works because you can see I'm using natural language, which series interpreting. And also after I've initially used Hey Siri the first time, It's quite happy to carry on the conversation if you like. Asked me and prompt each step when I need to make a decision. Hey, Siri. Well, so my schedule tomorrow, you have three appointments. On Tuesday. It's 1,300 h Dr. at 1,400 h lunch and all day tomorrow cycle. So you can see this another great example where actually using Siri can help speed up the, the way you can recall information and the way you can input information, but also the hands-free nature, again, of using Siri means that I can do that at any point, even when I maybe don't have easy access to my screen and my phone while they're unsere. Why don't you have a go at that now by adding some calendar appointments through Siri and seeing if you can edit them and change them afterwards as well. 20. C008 L16a Getting Your Thoughts Down: This time we're going to have a good look at the original book on GTD, Getting Things Done by David Allen. And this really is the seminal work on managing your tasks. He says there is no reason to ever have the same thought twice unless you like having that thought. And that's the key message to me of one of the most powerful ways to use Siri is to get any idea I have any thoughts that occurs to me about the jobs I need to do to get it down quickly so that I only have to have it once and then it's out of my mind. And his book really is an excellent read about just that. He says, the big problem that is, your mind keeps reminding you of things when you can't do anything about them, it has no sense of past or future. That means that as soon as you tell yourself that you need to do something and store it in your RAM, There's a part of you that thinks you should be doing that something all the time. And he's book talks at length about that idea of cognitive load out about having that nagging feeling in the back of your brain where you have loops that are not closed. So to me being able to learn ways to use Siri as we're going to now, to remark, to write down all of our reminders, any thoughts that occur to us capture those tasks that need doing this to me is the best reason for it. He goes on. The cognitive scientists have now proven the reality of decision fatigue, that every decision you make little or big diminishes a limited amount of your brainpower. And in that way, I think this is a really handy tool because it allows us to keep all of our thoughts in one place as soon as we have them using Siri. Let's learn how. 21. Reminders: Okay, We've made it to what is my favorite use of Siri? Hands down, and that is to help you manage your to-do list, your tasks, your projects, and your reminders. So we're going to look at what happens when we use Siri with the reminders app now. So we'll start off by just adding some tasks. Hey Siri, Remind me to get a haircut. Alright, I've added it to your catalyst. So Capture is the name of my default list. By default, Siri, we'll add any tasks you give it to the default list. We can expand on that by giving it a timeframe as well. Hey, Siri, Remind me to pick up dry cleaning tomorrow morning. Okay. Gentle reminder is set for tomorrow, 07:00. That's great. And those timings are set by default as well. And you can have timing set for different times of the day. So hey, Siri, Remind me to call Josh tomorrow evening. Okay. You reminder is set for tomorrow at 1,800 h. And there we go. Tomorrow evening, it interprets as 06:00 P.M. let's look at working with other lists as well as the default list. Hey Siri, make a new list called shops. And what would you like to list? Cheese. Okay, I did two shops list. So we can make a list. And actually as part of the same process, cerebral prompt us to add things to the list, which we can add at the same time. But let's add things to that specific list separately. Hey Siri, add milk to my shop's list. Okay, added to your shopping list. So let's just go in and check some of these things out. Let's just go into reminders and check out these lists. So here I am. And when I go to my capture list, you can see amongst all the other things that I've dumped in there, gets a haircut pickup dry cleaning called Josh are there at the bottom and the bottom to have those timings set. Let's go into the shops list we made as well. And you can see cheese that I added when I made the list and also milk that I added separately. So next, let's have a look at location dependent reminders rather than time-based reminders. Hey, Siri, Remind me to plug in the charges when I get home. Okay. You reminder is set series going to use the location from my contact card that we looked at earlier in the course to work out where home is and as long as location services are turned on, it will allow me to do that. Let's see what happens with apps. So the first thing we're going to do is try in email. And we're going to look at reminding ourselves about an email. Hey, Siri. Remind me about this email tomorrow morning. Okay. You reminder is set for tomorrow 07:00. And that's really useful because as well as setting the reminder, you can see the email icon on that reminder. That means that when the reminder pops up or when I open it in reminders, I can click on that icon and it will take me straight to that reminder. Let's do it with something different. Let's do it in the browser. Hey Siri, Remind me about this tonight. Alright, I've added it to your capture list. And again, you can see the same things happen there. I gave it a time as well, but actually, a reminder has the browser icon as part of it, which means I have a link as part of the reminder to go straight to it right now, why don't you try setting yourself some reminders, try making some lists, and then putting some reminders in those lists and see if you can set time and location-based reminders as well. This really is one of the best features about Siri that will really help you manage your commitments. 22. Travel: Okay, so we're gonna look at travel now. That means we've reached what I think is probably my most used series scale. And that is finding where I left my car. If you link your phone via Bluetooth to your car, then there may well be an app for your vehicle. That means you can tell lots about the diagnostics of the vehicle, but actually it's just linking it for music even is enough for your phone to be able to find your car when you leave it. So Hey, Siri, where's my car? Okay. Here's your parent's car. And that skill is really helpful because I can then click on the map. And you can see not bark too far this time, but it's going to show me where my car is and open it in Apple Maps afterwards, which is really, really helpful. It's absolutely brilliant scale and as I say, one that I use all the time, right? Let's try a different one this time we're going to think about just travel in general. So hey Siri, how do I get to Exeter? Getting directions to exit. There we go. So Siri will open a map with the directions for the location that I asked you to. And those two travel-related skills are really helpful. I think the first one, as I say, I use endlessly. After this, why don't you start asking Siri where you left your car or at least using it to track down routes to get to different places. 23. Playing Music: Okay, let's have some fun and get Siri involved in playing music from our library. To start off with, we're going to ask Siri to play either a particular song or music by a particular artist. So let's start here. Hey Siri, play London grammar. Now playing London grammar on Apple Music, you can always ask me to switch to a different tab. You'll choices will help you learn the ones you like. Now that series playing, Let's try some other controls that we can do during that time. Hey Siri, pause, pause, pause. The song will help with that. Hey Siri, continue. And she'll carry on as well. Hey Siri, next track. Hey Siri, skip. So there's a couple of different ways that we can go about that. Hey Siri, play previous song. So you can see completely hands-free using Siri, we can move back and forth between the songs that are playing. Now let's try some different things. First of all, from our library will ask Siri to choose the genre. Hey Siri, play funk. Funk and series chosen some funk music from my library. Now let's go wider than our library and see if we can just use iTunes Radio. Hey Siri, play funk from iTunes Radio. Fun, playing on Apple Music. So now that we've got into the swing of trying out some different types of music requests. Let's consider what happens when Series playing something that actually we don't really want to hear. So we're going to use this option to not hear a song again. Hey Siri, don't play that song again. I'll remember that you don't like this song. There we go, right? Why don't you now try using Siri to help you play. Pause, move back and forth between your playlist and work with your music library and Apple radio as well. Have a go. 24. Identifying Music: Okay, Having managed to get Siri to play music to us, Let's get new Siri to work out what music we're listening to and identify it for us. This is a really handy feature. Hey Siri. What songs this sounds like what you're saying. Okay, so siri can work out what track we're hearing by listening to it itself. Now, what you may have noticed there as well is that it will come up with a link to the store where we can purchase that as well. Hey Siri. What song is this? Let me list. It. Sounds like you're listening to 24. Okay, Magic by Bruno. And you can see when I clicked on the link, it's opened it in Apple Music. And it's taken me straight to that track and highlighted that tractor show me which one I was listening to as well, which is great. Now that's because I'm using Apple Music subscription. If I didn't have that, then it would have taken me to the Apple store where I could have purchased that track instead. Have a go yourself, see if you can get Siri to identify the music that you can hear. 25. Following Sports: Something else that's great fun is to let Siri go to work finding sports results, trivia, and making predictions for you. So let's have a go at looking at the grammar for some of those things. Hey Siri, who won the 1960s football World Cup. Okay, I found this on the web for her one, the 1960s football World Cup. So in that case, so in that situation, Siri will look up the information for us. Hey Siri, who won Wimbledon this year. Here are the latest results from Wimbledon. Immense Singles Final at Wimbledon on the 11th of July 20, 2011 seed Novak Djokovic put away seven seated motto, verity, need for sets 67646463. And in women's, just stop it there because Siri will carry on reading. But you can see in that situation, we get a card of information rather than just to link to browser-based searches. Hey Siri, who scored most goals in the Premier League last year. Here are the leaders in goals for the 2020, 21 Premier League season. Hurricane of Tottenham hotspot, her 23 and I have it set a gallery of Liverpool, had 22. Bruno will stop Siri there again before it keeps going. Hey Siri, who's the best team in the Super Bowl. We are still waiting to see you all participate in the Super Bowl 56. And you can see lots of it's available via detailed cards that Siri will show you or linking to web searches for information that it doesn't have as easily to hand. Have a go, see what you can look up about the teams and players that are interesting to you. 26. Using the Law of Least Effort: We're going to learn to use dictation in a minute. But before we do, I wanted to share with you another reason why we've been looking at all the ways Siri can make things easier for us and more efficient. This book, Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, really helps us contextualize why that is a good thing. Overall, he says, a general law of least effort applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law exerts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people who will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action in the economy of action, effort is a cost and the acquisition of scale is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature. So to me, again, to be able to use something like Siri to dictate what I want to say and have it open apps without me going, there is a better way to do things because it takes a lot of what he calls that law of least effort out of the process. Let's move on to dictation. 27. Dictation: There are some other uses for Siri that we might be interested in. One of them that doesn't require us to say the phrase, Hey Siri to launch it is dictation. So we're going to have a look now at what happens when we try to use Siri using the on-screen keyboard. Let's go into a new text here. We can see that there's a couple of tools that are relevant here. Now in the message box, we can see just to the right of the message box, there's a little gray icon that looks like a sound wave. Now if we click that, that's going to record an actual audio message as a recording. Well, we don't want that. We want the icon that is in the bottom-right corner below the keyboard, where it has an actual image of a microphone. So I'm going to tap that and it's going to then let me record my message. But in order to do this, I need to keep this short sentences. I need to say the punctuation that I want as well. Let's have a go. Shall we go out for lunch? Question mark? It's a beautiful day. Exclamation mark. Now you can see Siri carried on listening there until I press the keyboard icon to show that I wanted it to stop listening and go back to keyboard input. Now that we've done that, I can send the message. Okay, let's try this in a different context. I'm going to go into drafts. You can see drafts doesn't have the recording button that messenger had, but it does have the microphone icon in the bottom right corner. So let's try this. The length of the desk in my office is 1 m, 16 cm period, new line. The word is Birch period. The height is 80 cm period. And again, I can finish the message by pressing the keyboard icon that appears where the microphone icon was in that bottom right corner as a way to show to Siri that I don't want it to listen anymore. That way it's a really easy to take quick messages, to draft texts, to draft e-mails. And because that's part of the built-in keyboard in your iPhone, it works across all of the apps, native or third party apps that use the keyboard. So your task now is to have a go at dictating to Siri either a text message or an email or maybe in your notepad, any of the places that dictation might be really useful, have a go. 28. Settings: This is our last lesson in the main part of the course, and we're just going to take another look into the Settings app to see how we can fine tune the Siri experience a little bit further. Hey Siri, open settings. So from earlier, hopefully you'll remember that when we go to the general section of the settings app halfway down his Syrian search. Before we looked at those top options about ask Siri the listen for Hey Siri, tick box, press side button for Siri and Allow Siri When Locked to decide if we want in Syria to be able to function when your phone was locked as well. We then went through and set a language and we chose a voice out of the available options. Now let's look at those remaining four options that we haven't looked at yet. Firstly, we're going to look at announced calls. So I'm going to click on there. When I go into there, you can see I have choices about when Siri announces who's calling me, as well as just ringing, siri can tell me about who's phoning. I can set that to always. I can set it to when I'm either using headphones or in the car, or when I'm only using headphones or as I have at the moment, never. Below that, we then have Siri responses. And in survey responses, this again gives us a choice about when Siri speaks the results to us. So it doesn't change when Surrey does the action, but it does change whether it says it to us or not. So you can see at the moment the choices are always, or I have selected, went silent mode is off. Or we can say only with, Hey Siri. Now below that you also have a choice to turn on or off, whether Siri will always show captions. And where are the Siri will always show speech, which the moment you can see I have turned off. But your job now after this is to experiment with these different settings and see what makes a difference to the way that you use your device. Below that, my inflammation, remember let you choose the card within your address book that Siri was using to log your relationships are nicknames and things like that. Then the final option that we're going to look at here, Siri and dictation history. So Siri logs every time you use it. If I go into here, I have the option. Delete that Siri and dictation history so that it doesn't keep a record and then starts a new record. Now below that, I can choose when Siri makes suggestions. So I have four options there while searching on the lock screen, on the home screen, or when sharing. And you can toggle on or off when you want those options to be available from Siri. So there's a huge, huge range of different settings that you can choose with all those different options to fine tune the Siri experience for you and the way that series supports you. Below that, you then have a list of all the apps on your device. And you can go in and fine tune each of these settings for a particular app as well. So if you do want to have suggestions while searching, but not for a particular app, you can turn that off as well. So your task now following this, is to now go into settings, set some initial settings in all of those different areas. Live with them for a little while, see which ones work for you and fine tune that experience over time. 29. The Class Project: Okay, We've got to that point in the course where we're on to the class project. This is a time for you to really cement your thinking and your understanding about why and how to use Siri. So with that in mind, one final book reference, Make It Stick The Science of Successful Learning. This is book is gonna give us the understanding of why to complete the class task. He says it's not just what you know about how you practice, what you know that determines how well the learning service you later learning is stronger when it matters, when the abstract is made concrete and personal with something fairly abstract like use of Siri. I wanted to give you a project that would give you a chance to get stuck in. So just to expand on that a little bit, durable, robust learning requires that we do two things. First, as we re-code and consolidate new material from short-term memory into long-term memory, we must anchor it there securely. Second, we must associate the material with a diverse set of cues that will make us adept at recalling the knowledge later. Having effective retrieval cues is an aspect of learning that often goes overlooked. The task is more than committed knowledge to memory, being able to retrieve it when we need it is just as important. So with that in mind, I've included a document that you can use to complete the class task if you choose to. And it's this Word document. You could complete it digitally. You could print it off and annotate it, take a picture of it, and share that bag. You could do your own version in something different like PowerPoint or Google Docs or even Canva or something like that. The key is that you're going to mark out how and when do you intend to use Siri in your day and then reflect on whether that's happened. So let's have a look at this document, a day of using Siri for work and play. And I've gone through to give you some times of day when you might be using series. So e.g. preparing for the day and some suggested ideas, checking the time, checking the weather, reviewing your calendar, opening web searches. When you're getting to work, when you're at work, when you're on a break or at lunch, when you're getting home, eating or eating out, planning the evening. I've just included for each of those things, you can see some examples of the type of Siri uses you might decide to use during that time. So I'm looking forward to seeing in the class project how you engage with this. The task is to get really secure with how we use Siri and embed it in part of your daily life. So any visual system that you use like this, you could do a concept map or brainstorm some sort of spider diagram. But I'm looking to see how you engage with that task to show me how you've made Serie a part of your daily life to help you hope you've enjoyed the course. Thanks for being part of it and I hope to see you in another one. Have a good day.