What the Tech? Siri Can Answer the Phone for You
If you can’t answer the phone with your hands, Apple’s voice assistant Siri can do it for you. See how to set it up.
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What the Tech? See Siri Secrets You Can Try
Here are some great Siri commands and skills that only power users know about.
What the Tech? App Helps You Record Traffic Stops
An iPhone app is helping people record video of traffic stops. The Siri shortcut app “Pulled Over By Police” will start recording video with the smartphone just by saying “Hey Siri, I’m being pulled over by police”. The app is not available in Apple’s App Store, rather it must be downloaded from a link using the “Shortcuts” app that comes…
What the Tech? Siri Can Now Answer Coronavirus Questions
Siri can now provide information on the Coronavirus and might even be able to help you decide whether you should seek medical attention or just stay at home. Apple updated the voice assistant over the weekend to provide information from the CDC. It will also ask about any symptoms you’re experiencing and using that information, will suggest you see a…
What the Tech? Siri May Give Your Personal Information to a Stranger
You find an iPhone in a coffee shop or club. It’s locked with a passcode and the owner is nowhere to be found. You may be able to find out who owns the phone and contact them without even touching it. This is a feature in Siri meant to help people who lose their phones and it works. However, you…
What the Tech? Is Your Alexa, Siri or Other Device Recording You?
I suppose we’ve all heard a beep or ding or bloop when one of the many voice-assistants springs into action. We expect them to be ready when we ask Siri or Alexa or Google for the forecast or when we get to move the clocks forward. I’ll bet you’ve even become frustrated at least once when the listening device you’re…
What the Tech? Tech Breakthroughs of the Past Decade
We always think time passes quickly but when you look at techs and gadgets that we use everyday, sometimes it seems time passes slowly. Here me out here. How long do you think we’ve had the iPad? What was life like before the “selfie” and Instagram? Seems like they’ve been around forever. But the two-thousand teens will go down in…
