Late this past week, Apple updated its Siri webpages to drop all references to the product being in beta. Prior to this past week, the bottom of the Siri informational page read:. Siri may not be available in all languages or in all areas, and features may vary by area. Cellular data charges may apply. Siri is available on iPhone 4s or later, iPad with Retina display, iPad mini, and iPod touch 5th generation and requires Internet access.
Additionally, Apple has removed its Siri FAQs website Google Cache that explained some of the finite details of the service and the supported languages. Because Siri seems to no longer be in beta, perhaps Apple feels that the service now performs well enough to not need an additional page of explanations.
Thanks to Joel for the lead! See also: As Siri makes it out of beta, is it time to give it another chance? Put on a favorite album. Or even answer questions about bands you love.
Siri can also suggest your favorite playlist when you arrive at the gym or start your drive home. Just tap to play. Now you can control your smart appliances, check their status, or even do a bunch of things at once — using just your voice.
Quickly check facts, do calculations, or translate a phrase into another language. A great example is the Siri watch face, which serves up events, news, suggestions, and more right when you need them. And the capabilities of Siri are optimized for each device, so you get the right kind of help, anywhere you are. You can also create your own shortcuts to streamline tasks you do all the time.
Machine learning is constantly making Siri smarter. And you can personalize Siri to make it even more useful. Choose to have Siri speak one of 21 different languages. Teach Siri who your family members are. And spell out unusual words so Siri can recognize them in the future. Siri is designed to do as much learning as possible offline, right on your device. Whatever you need, Siri is there to help.
On every Apple device. So more of the things you already love to do on your devices can be done simply by asking Siri. Siri does more than ever. Even before you ask. Calls and Texts Siri lets you stay connected without lifting a finger. Siri has also expanded its powers to include control of common iPhone settings, something that was noticeably missing in beta Siri. You can now turn settings like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on and off, change your screen brightness, turn on Do Not Disturb or view a specific app's settings.
If you use the new iTunes Radio feature, you can vocally express your enthusiasm or displeasure with specific songs to customize music stations. One of the biggest challenges facing new Siri is some serious competition from Google. Slowly and with less fanfare, Google has been building up its own powerful natural-language voice search in recent years.
Although it lacks a catchy anthropomorphic name, Google Voice Search takes on many of the same tasks as Siri. In addition to typical Google search results, it pulls answers from Gmail, Google Calendar and other Google accounts the way Siri does from the e-mail, contacts and calendar apps on the iPhone.
Google Voice Search is less chatty, but by cutting out extra words it is sometimes faster to return an answer. It cannot be used to control phone settings or launch applications on an iPhone, but if you are a Google Account user it is a legitimate alternative for tasks like calendaring. The competition between the two companies helps explain the new Siri's most unfortunate change. Siri has dropped Google as its default search engine of choice and switched to Microsoft's Bing.
When a question can't be answered by Siri itself or a Wikipedia entry, it will pull up web results from Bing directly in Siri.
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