Chapter 5

Taking Control of Your iPhone

In This Chapter

arrow Controlling your iPhone with Control Center

arrow Calling Siri

arrow Determining what you can say

arrow Editing mistakes

arrow Dialing by voice

How could you not love Siri? The intelligent voice-activated virtual personal assistant living like a genie inside the iPhone not only hears what you have to say but also attempts to figure out the intent of your words. Siri then does her darnedest to respond to your wishes. She — yes, it’s a female voice (at least when you choose U.S. English as the default language) — can help you dictate and send a message, get directions, call a friend, discover who won the ballgame, tell you when a movie is playing, ID the song playing in the background, arrange a wake-up call, search the web, find a decent place to eat, and lots more. Siri talks back, too, sometimes with humor and other times with attitude. When Ed told ...

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