I'm 76 and in the UK and bought an IPhone for the first time a few weeks ago at the constant urging of my son. He keeps offering me help and advice but then discovers that I have figured it out all by myself. He can't believe how much I know. I'm allowing him to think that I'm a technical genius but just following your videos. Thanks Rich (keep this between ourselves!)
I only found you yesterday. I live in England and find your explanations really helpful. Other advice videos go too fast and skip what they regard as too simple stuff. Thank you for helping me make much more use of Siri.
I use Siri to translate. My gardener speaks English, but his crew all speak only Spanish. If I need to talk to them, I say, “Hey Siri, translate to Spanish.” She says, “What would you like to say?” I say something like, “Please be sure to lock the gate when you leave.” Siri says, “Please be sure to lock the gate when you leave” in Spanish is . . . and she says it out loud so the guys can hear. She also puts it on the screen in English so I can check that she heard me correctly. I love it! No more crazy gesturing to my horrible Spanish that makes us all laugh!!!
Very nice video, thanks for posting. I’m 70+ and a big Siri fan. I use it throughout my day, with HomeKit. For things like, turning lights, on and off, adjusting my thermostat, and viewing my security camera feeds. Siri has become a very valuable assistant.
Wow! Glad to hear you're using Siri in such a useful way. After reading your comment, I think I'll eventually do a video on HomeKit and the ways it can make life easier. Thanks so much for watching and for the video idea!
Hi Rich, I use Siri a lot. I have a tip for you if you don’t already know it. Tell Siri Rhonda Bowlin is your wife. Tell Siri Lindsay Bowlin is your daughter. (however you have them listed in your contacts). Siri will remember. Then you can call them by saying to Siri “Hey Siri call my wife”/“Hey Siri call my daughter”. Kindness, Teresa
Read text message you receive while driving!! A pet peeve is getting in the car, making calls, getting navigation going to some place, and then start driving. It never fails!! As soon as you get going, a text comes in. It’s hard, unsafe, and mostly illegal to read while driving. “Hey Siri, read text message.” “Don Brown sent text: can we meet for lunch today at farmer’s market? I think it’s my turn to buy. How about eleven thirty.” She’ll ask if you want to reply. You don’t have to take your eyes off the road! I learned this one day when I got several texts while driving so I pulled off the road and dealt with all the messages. I no sooner got back on the road, when yet another message arrived! In disgust, I decided to ask Siri to read the message - and she did!! Now I use that feature all the time.
I’m 83 and use Siri to read the text if my daughters call while I’m driving . It ‘s excellent when I’m on a long drive to text them from time to time as I let them know my progress .
Excellent and well explained video, awesome, everything cleared and no room for any question after watching this video about Siri. Very well done Rich 😊😊👏👏
Thanks Rich, I've just switched to Apple and at 66 yrs old I also find that sometimes using Siri can be extremely helpful especially when travelling and you're in unfamiliar surroundings. I have picked up a few extra tips, thanks so much.
Another great video-thank you for your helpful attitude toward using the technology we all have in our hands to our benefit, whatever that might be. I used Siri to get driving directions and also restaurant, nearest gas stations and/or dog park locations when I travelled in the western states. Now, at home, I use Siri for reminders, to timers while baking, for specific data like gram and Celsius conversions, recommended internal temperatures of safely cooked baked goods and meats. t’s super useful.
Wow. You've mastered using Siri. Lately, Siri has been hit-or-miss for me. Fore example, I asked Siri to call my daughter Lindsey, and she tried to call Senator Lindsey Graham!
Rich, I just found your videos a couple of hours ago & they're great! I'm 73 & have a wonderful opportunity to help my niece by answering her business phone remotely. However, I've never used an iphone before & she has already gotten me a new one to use, so I have to learn to use it quickly in order to take some of the workplace demands off her. I've found other videos but the instructor talks too fast or has too much of an accent to understand well. I don't have time to keep replaying them as I need to learn her computer program, too. Hopefully that won't take too long, but both are critical to the continued success of her business & to my financial stability. In desperation I'd tried to find an owner's manual online, watched other videos, contacted friends & places that sell phones, & the local library, etc. to see if they offered classes or could otherwise help me - all to no avail. I'm single & finances are very tight. My niece recently lost her husband & home after 23 years of marriage so the need to learn to use the Apple 2022 is great. Thank you SO much for producing all the videos, but especially those that are geared toward seniors. May God richly bless you!
I love using Siri. I've only been an iphone user for a little over a year. My daughter taught me how to use GPS but sometimes when I'm at my destination and need to find somewhere else I'll just ask Siri and she comes through for me. Glad your channel is here. I just subscribed. And I'm not a fan of technology being the 65 yr old Boomer that I am.
I'm not far behind you at 62. I probably look older! Most of my Boomer friends use tech to some degree or another because we have to. But my wife would rather use a rotary phone than a cell phone. And of course the TV remote has a thousand buttons. But honestly, Siri has worked pretty well for me too. Thanks for watching and subscribing.
Very helpful, thank you. I use Siri for some things (I like the female Irish voice), but I know there are way more things I can do. I like the idea of asking for the weather instead of checking the app.
I watch all of your videos you're very very helpful when I first started using series I didn't like her I like her now because I know how to use her because of you thank you very much I appreciate everything that you do your hard work great job
I have been really iPhone resistant for ~5 years, but at 81 I 'really need it' for appointments and the like. I saw a middle-age woman use it this morning ...so quick and easy!?This old is learning new tricks ..with your help. I do need however to figger-out how to convert plain old phone #s into something Siri can understand. Cheers. Jim
Yes, I use Siri a lot. I prefer the Australian Male voice. I had totally forgotten about Reminders! I had 7 or 8 categories set up. They must have been from many years ago based on their content. I cleaned them up and will start using this forgotten feature. You explain everything in detail. I thoroughly enjoy your calm approach! So many on here talk too fast and loud, and wave their arms around. I have unfollowed them since discovering you. I do wish you would identify your phone model and iOS version at the beginning of each video.
Thanks so much for the tip. I really should ID the iPad or iPhone I'm using since features vary based on model. I should have been doing this all along! I really do learn a lot from comments like yours. Thanks so much for watching!
Thank you for your channel. easy to understand. I really like this. I try to use as many any as I know, but sometimes so irritate, using English & Japanese are much herder. but all your example ware working w Japanese words
Hi Rich, You are so good and calm. I'm going to try Siri from now on. Very daunting for a 76 year old who loves tech. Thank you. - Dana Rushton (Male) - Australia
What a really helpful series of lessons these have been. Thank you. Your tips are clear and concise and have covered all the things I had to learn about my new iPhone. Brilliant.
Glad I just found your channel. got i phone 13 2 days ago......learning curve will be much shorter now. I'm 67 , first smart phone , flip phone user for 12 yrs .
Thank you so much for this great video. I have never used Siri mainly because I didn't know what it was for. Thanks to your video, I will be using it often!
just discovered you while trying to figure out my new iPhone and love the way you explain this...subscribed and cant wait to check out your other content..thanks much..at 77 its nice to get some sound and easily understood tech advice.
I'm not a senior (50 this month) but have Raynaud's Disease in my hands. My skin is so dry it's like wood and gets cracks in it. It is so painful at times. I've used stylus pens a lot but now I am also driving more. But I can't find it half the time! Raynauds makes looking for things absolutely horrible sometimes so Siri would be invaluable ☺️ Thank you, from Australia 👍✌️🇦🇺
Thank you! I tried to set up a reminder, but Siri said I needed an app. Downloaded the app, and it worked. : ). Siri is great for turning off the flashlight on my phone; thought I had it set up not to turn on automatically, but now and then I manage to do so. Siri will turn it on and off for me. Really enjoy your videos. : )
Thanks! So glad it was helpful. I'm thinking about making a new video on Siri. There's a lot of things I forget how to do on my iPhone or iPad and most of the time I can just ask Siri to do it and I don't have to remember!
Maybe YOU could perhaps produce a video about how you go about having Siri do, but you just said, because I haven’t progress that far in Siri I guess because I don’t know how to do that. Thank you for sharing that with us.
Give Siri a try. If Siri doesn't work well for you, you can always do things the way you did before. Nothing to lose by giving it a try. Thanks so much for watching!
Haha! M’y Siri on m’y iPad has asked me twice since you started talking what I wanted, lol! And she just asked me what I want to say to Lindsey , gave me the weather, and I’m laughing! She’s listening to you.
Rich, That is a great video except for one thing. I had my old iPad on a shelf near my tv where I was playing your TY video. I use that iPad as a monitor for my Ring doorbell cameras. Well, every time that you mentioned her name Siri's little icon started spinning and asking for input! Strangely enough, my Mac, my other iPad and my phone did not wake Siri up from her slumber!
Yes, I shouldn't have used the trigger phrase so much in that video. I've probably triggered a million iPhones and iPads when I did that. I fixed that on my latest Siri video! Thanks so much for watching!
How can you find something while on a route to another city? For instance, where’s the next Culver’s restaurant along my current trip? Or, what restaurants are ahead on my current trip?
Great question. With the latest version of iOS16 for the iPhone and iPad OS for the iPad, you can set your destination in Maps. While on your way, you should be able to ask Siri "Where's the closest Culver's?" and it will pop up on the Maos app. You can then add it as a stop on your route. The trick is to have your destination and route in the Maps app. Hope this helps!
I have turned off and then on Siri many a time so that the five steps for setting it up will work. Usually to work very occasionally a third prompt will repeat after me. But all five do not ,no matter where I hold the phone or how I annunciate. Having said this I really relying on using the microphone. The funniest thing is that many of my messages have poor grammar, spelling, and even some foul language 1:28
I've been using the reminder's for over a year now but here's anotherI like to set a particular time for the reminder to pop up, so I'll say something like, "Hey Siri, at 2:35 PM tomorrow, remind me to mail the package to uncle Bill." That way you can be more specific and have multiple reminders at different times during the same day.
Ha! I watched this video a while back for review purposes and mu iPhone did the same thing! Funny things happen on this channel from time to time. Thanks for watching!
Listening to this podcast ever time you would say Siri my Siri would stop the podcast and ask me what I wanted! Lol I had to keep restarting the podcast! Lol 😂
Hi Steve! Sorry about that. I thought about muting "hey" so I wouldn't trigger every device on the planet. But then I was concerned that people would just say "Siri" and Siri wouldn't respond. I need to figure this one out!
I was re-listening to the podcast and I thought why is Rich playing Jackie Evancho music for so long then I realized it was me my Siri! And that the podcast was stopped! Lol
I find that Siri has a long way to go. When it reads me text messages it has trouble interpreting street numbers dates zip codes and more. It also gets what I dictate wrong far too often for me.
Siri is getting better. But not on the level of other digital assistants. Your issue around addresses and stuff are related to the way Apple Maps works. I think this is the first year where I've finally begun to trust Apple Maps for a detailed trip. Always used Google Maps before. I hope Siri improves over the next few years. Thanks for watching!
I love Siri, I use her for everything. The only thing I do not like is when I say "Hey Siri" and she responds with hmmmm or uh huh. I do not have the best hearing and sometimes I can't hear her respond. It is a slight annoyance, otherwise Siri is extremely helpful.
Some folks don’t realize that one does not need to wait for Siri to answer back with with the first “hey Siri“. In other words, one can say “hey Siri“ and immediately speak the request with no delay. This works and you don’t have to wait the two seconds for her to go hmmm? Or uh huh?
Hi Anna! You can just tap you home button or swipe up from the bottom to dismiss Siri. If you hold down the home button too long Siri will pop up. Hope this helps!
Siri could become the first usable personal digital assistant. Hey Siri Verbose mode ON" Imagine having a deep engineering knowledge base on tap. " hey Siri run an FFT on this sound" "hey Siri what is the second derivative of 7X cubed" "hey Siri what is the second law of thermodynamics A whole new industry.
Yes. And answers to those types of questions are coming. I think AI is being baked into Siri and Alexa now so that complex questions around multiple topics at one time can be answered. Thanks for the great observation and thanks for watching!
