![]() You will need to have iOS 16 or later for this feature to be available to Siri, as earlier versions do not support the restart voice commands. You can also use Hey Siri, for example with “Hey Siri, restart iPhone” Siri will ask to confirm that you want to restart the device, and once confirmed your iPhone will restart itself entirely through software means. There’s no secret to restarting iPhone with Siri, it’s just a matter of using the proper commands, which you could probably guess what they are. This is the fruit of Apple’s acquisition of Topsy, the Twitter search and analytics company, and it’s highly welcome.This is a great feature for convenience, since it’s all voice commands, but also for users who need to restart their iPhone without having to press buttons or use hardware buttons on the device, whether because they are unable to, or because the buttons are malfunctioning. In addition to searching Bing for news, it can now also search Twitter, and it uses your account (with your permission) to personalise the results it gives you. However, Siri is definitely getting smarter about finding and delivering information. Yes, it probably is – but at least make the effort to find it for me. Ask it to search for news about iOS 10, and it will happily tell you that everything you need to know about Apple products is on Apple’s website. Occasionally, Siri is annoyingly literal. And, once you’ve completed your search, you can pin it to Notification Centre, so you can revisit it again. “Find me the latest football results”, also works, although at the moment Siri appears confused about which kind of football you want – “soccer”, or the American version. For example, you can now ask something like: “find me all the files I worked on yesterday”, which will return all the files you opened yesterday. The types of questions you can ask have been expanded for the Mac. You then use natural language to ask it a question, and Siri responds. Invoke Siri, either by clicking on an icon in the Dock or menu bar, or via a keyboard shortcut, and the familiar colourful sound-wave pattern appears. If you’ve used Siri on iOS devices, then you know what to expect. The headline feature is the arrival of Siri on the Mac, five years after its first appearance on iPhone. READ NEXT: Apple iOS 10 review (hands-on): “Biggest update ever”? We don’t think so However, Apple has tended in the past to release security and driver updates for older operating systems for quite some time – it’s still supporting Mavericks, released in 2013 – so if you’re still using a seven-year-old machine, you can expect to squeeze a couple more years out of it yet. If you’re using a Mac that was released prior to 2009, you won’t be able to use Sierra, and you’ll be stuck with OS X El Capitan. To run Sierra, you’ll need any of the following products: MacBook (late 2009 and later) MacOS review: Which Macs will be able to install macOS Sierra?įor the first time since 2012, Macs are being dropped from the lineup of supported models for a new release. But even at this stage, we can still get a flavour of where Apple is taking its oldest existing operating system. Some things are broken, some things are missing in action, and everything needs a fair bit of fine-tuning. ![]() There are also a few smaller changes, all of which add up to a decent if unspectacular update. ![]() ![]() There’s one major feature – the arrival of Siri on the Mac – and a large number of changes designed to keep pace with new features in iOS 10. This year feels like a consolidation rather than a revolutionary change. ![]()
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