How To Disable Siri, Passbook From The Lock Screen

How To Disable Siri, Passbook From The Lock Screen
Posted by iPhoneHacks on Nov 19, 2012 | Comments (3)

One of the few things you can do from the lock screen in iOS is use Siri, which means that you can use it to make a phone call, FaceTime call, send a text message to anyone on your Contact list, send tweets and Facebook posts from your account or even send an email etc.

We find it very convenient, but if you’re paranoid about someone misusing the functionality when you leave your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch unattended or you lose your iOS device then you can always disable Siri from the Lock screen.

Read More

OS X 10.9 May Include Siri And Maps Integration

OS X 10.9 May Include Siri And Maps Integration
Posted by Rounak Jain on Nov 19, 2012 | Comments (2)

Citing “reliable sources” 9to5Mac claims that early builds of Apple’s next major Mac OS release, OS X 10.9, has Maps and Siri baked right into the system. This is in accordance with Apple’s recent trend of bringing iOS features to the Mac, as seen in the past two major releases of OS X.

Since these are early builds of the OS, Apple may choose to not ship some of these features, if it feels that they aren’t ready for prime time.

Read More

How To Replace Siri With Google Voice Search Using NowNow [Jailbreak Tweak]

How To Replace Siri With Google Voice Search Using NowNow [Jailbreak Tweak]
Posted by iPhoneHacks on Nov 07, 2012 | Comments (11)

Last week, Google released an update for its Search app to add support for Siri-like feature called Google Now aka Google Voice Search, which performed much better than Siri in yesterday’s comparison video.

If you’ve jailbroken your iOS device, then it is now possible to replace Siri with Google’s Voice Search thanks to a new jailbreak tweak called NowNow.

Read More

What does a Google Voice Search vs Siri Head-to-Head Sound like?

What does a Google Voice Search vs Siri Head-to-Head Sound like?
Posted by Tris Hussey on Nov 06, 2012 | Comments (5)

Google Search for iOS recently added a Siri-like voice search to their app so folks have been testing it against Siri for speed, accuracy, and the inevitable humor factor. Gizmodo posted a video with a head-to-head comparison last week, pretty interesting stuff where the apps both hit and miss.

Read More

Siri will let you order movie tickets in iOS 6.1

Siri will let you order movie tickets in iOS 6.1
Posted by Tris Hussey on Nov 04, 2012 | No Comments »

Earlier this week Apple released iOS 6.1 Beta to developers and the first new features we saw reported were better Maps error reporting and lock screen improvements (UI changes), today we have word that in iOS 6.1 Siri will help you get to the movies.

Read More

How To Adjust Siri’s Volume Independently Of Your iPhone’s Volume

How To Adjust Siri’s Volume Independently Of Your iPhone’s Volume
Posted by iPhoneHacks on Oct 28, 2012 | Comments (5)

In case you use Siri – Apple’s intelligent personal assistant feature, then here’s a neat little trick (in case you didn’t know already.)

If you find Siri’s volume is too loud, then you can turn her down independently of your iPhone’s ringer & alerts volume and media volume.

Read More

Siri Co-Founder Adam Cheyer Left Apple in June

Siri Co-Founder Adam Cheyer Left Apple in June
Posted by iPhoneHacks on Sep 12, 2012 | No Comments »

Last year, Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus left Apple just after iPhone 4S launch, which features the intelligent personal assistant feature.

As Apple gears up to launch the next generation iPhone in the next few hours, AllThingsD briefly reports that another Siri co-founder Adam Cheyer has left Apple.

Read More

Nuance Launches Nina – Siri-Like Virtual Assistant For Customer Service Apps

Nuance Launches Nina – Siri-Like Virtual Assistant For Customer Service Apps
Posted by iPhoneHacks on Aug 06, 2012 | Comments (2)

Nuance Communications has just launched Nina – a personal assistant service for apps. Nuance has released a Nuance virtual assistant SDK, which can be used by developers to offer a Siri-like virtual assistant feature in their apps.

This is an interesting development as Apple’s Siri currently works with only built-in apps and third party services such as Wikipedia, Yelp and Wolfram Alpha.

Read More

Apple’s iPhone 4S Print Ad Featuring Siri Misidentifies Poison Ivy As Poison Oak

Apple’s iPhone 4S Print Ad Featuring Siri Misidentifies Poison Ivy As Poison Oak
Posted by iPhoneHacks on Jul 27, 2012 | No Comments »

Apple recently took out an ad for iPhone 4S featuring Siri. Unfortunately, Apple’s seems to have goofed up, as in the ad that takes up the glossy back page of the July 7-13 issue of The Economist, Siri wrongly identifies poison oak as poison ivy.

Read More

Apple’s Siri Gets a ‘D’ Grade, Google Search Gets ‘B+’ in 1600 Question Test

Apple’s Siri Gets a ‘D’ Grade, Google Search Gets ‘B+’ in 1600 Question Test
Posted by iPhoneHacks on Jun 29, 2012 | No Comments »

Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster tested Apple’s Siri with Google’s Search by firing 1600 questions at each of them.

Not surprisingly, Google’s search came out on top, answering correctly 86% of the time, whereas Siri managed to answer only 68% correctly.

Read More
Page 3 of 13« First...234...10...Last »