Table of Contents

About This Book

How to Use This Book

What You Can Safely Ignore

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

So What Is Siri, Anyway?

A Bit o’ Background

Setting Up Siri

Talking to Siri

Keeping the lines of communication open

You can call me Al

Keeping a Calendar

Adding new calendar entries

Adding a new calendar entry — with location information

Making changes to calendar appointments

Reviewing calendar appointments

Setting Reminders

Starting a reminder

Telling Siri when to remind you

Setting a location for your reminder

Previewing your reminders

Taking Notes

Creating a new note

Adding more to an existing note

Finding notes

Setting Alarms, Clocks, and Timers

Setting an alarm

Finding out what time it is

Setting and adjusting timers

Opening Apps with Siri

Turning to Siri for Navigation

Using Siri to find an address

Using Siri to give you directions between two addresses

Using Siri to find a location without an address

Asking Siri to see an address

Telling Siri to take you home

Telling Siri to direct you to someone in your Contacts list

Using Siri for Location-Based Searches

What’s the Weather Like? Ask Siri!

Turning to Siri for Sports

Using Siri for live sports scores

Using Siri for previously played games

Asking Siri to tell you about two teams

Asking for more sports info from Siri

Using Siri for Movie Info

Looking for movies near you

Asking Siri for movie info

Asking Siri for movie trailers

Asking Siri about Restaurants

Having Siri find you a restaurant

Using Siri to book a reservation for you

“Siri, Take a Letter”

Composing, Sending, and Accessing E-Mails

Starting and sending an e-mail from scratch

Having Siri finish an e-mail you started to type

Sending e-mail to groups

Siri e-mail grab bag

CCing and BCCing contacts in an e-mail

More E-Mail Tasks Siri Can Do for You

E-mailing someone who isn’t in your Contacts

Finding e-mails in your inbox

Replying to and forwarding messages

Composing, Replying to, and Reading Text Messages

Composing a text message

Texting more than one person

Composing a text message from within Messages

Hearing Your Text Messages Read Aloud

Sending a Text Message to a Phone Number

Calling a Number or Person (and Starting FaceTime Chats, Too!)

Getting Info

Word definitions (and other fun stuff)

Solving math problems

Stock quotes and more

Currency conversion

Web Searching

Siri Does Music

Playing a particular song (or album)

Playing songs from the same artist

Launching a playlist using Siri

Playing music from one genre

Shuffling your music

Controlling your music

Play podcasts, too!

Posting to Social Networks

Posting to Facebook

Posting to Twitter

Using Your Voice to Find Your Friends!

Siri Don’t Play That

No Love for Me

A Guy Can Try

No Nuptials

Is There Someone Else?

Playing Along

The Birds and the Bees

Wasting Time

Humor Me

Story Time

Tongue Twisters, Too

Bad Intentions

Modest? Not.

Getting Deep

Song Me, Siri

Pink in the Face

Avoiding the Question

Sensitive Siri

Who Are You, Anyway?

Good Advice

Ask a Stupid Question . . .

Sleep Tight

From the “Duh” Department

Enquiring Minds Want to Know

Need a Shrink?

Shot Down Again

I’ll Be Back

Ouch!

Guessing Games

Oldest One in the Book

Trekkies, Unite!

Rise and Shine

Reminders by Location

Siri Can Read Your Texts

Post to Facebook, Twitter

It’s a Verbal Calculator, Too

Find Your Friends (The Ones You Like)

Ask Siri to Play Movie Trailers

Book Restaurant Reservations

Get Directions by Asking for Them

FaceTime with Someone

Faster, Smarter Web Searches