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0:00 This video is sponsored by our friends at Anchor. Every time I open YouTube, I see people talking about the new Siri AI. It's like Siri's become magical somehow. For me, Siri is just a tool I use to save a little time and frustration. That's it. Siri pretty much does my donkey work. And finally, Siri has gotten much better at doing that, and that's what today's short video is all about. Hi, my name is Rich, and I make easy to follow videos on how to use your iPhone and iPad, you know, without going nuts. And honestly, until recently, Siri pretty much drove me nuts. But back in June, Apple released a new version of Siri, and now Siri is referred to as Siri AI. And even though Siri AI is
0:48 still in beta, Apple has polished this app quite a bit. So, to be clear, this video will not cover the thousand things Siri AI can do. That's way too complicated. I'll leave those videos to others. But after showing you a few Siri settings, I'm going to cover five simple things. How to ask Siri general knowledge questions. How to ask Siri personal questions. How to use Siri with your camera, and that one is really cool. How to ask Siri to perform tasks. How to use the Siri app to review all your conversations and continue them if you want to. By the way, Siri AI is only available on iOS 27, Apple's latest operating system. So, you'll need to make sure you're up to date there. Also,
1:35 some of the new Siri features only run on newer iPhones. Though, most of what I'm going to show you today should be available on most iPhones. And the iPhone I'm using is the iPhone 18 Pro. Okay, let's get started. Okay, the first thing we're going to do is just dive into the settings app and just take a look at Siri for a few things. It'll only take a second here, but it's important. So, we'll open the settings app. I'm going to scroll down until I see Siri right here. And then I'm going to look at a few things. I have requests set to Siri or Hey Siri, or I can press the side button, which is what I'm going to do during most of this video cuz I don't want to trigger everybody's phones all over the world.
2:20 So, that's how I'm going to trigger Siri, but you can set it up here for Siri or Hey Siri. The Siri app right here, um it will open. I've got it set to the most recent conversations instead of a new conversation, and I'll show you that in just a minute how that works. I've also set up Chat GPT. I happen to have an account with Chat GPT. If you happen to have an account with Chat GPT, then you can set it up here. You can sign in to your account, and Siri will use Chat GPT for things that Siri doesn't handle on device. So, that's kind of important. I've also turned on automatic visual lookup. This is one of the coolest features. I'm going to show this in one of the tips. It's how you use your camera to look stuff up.
3:06 And that's pretty much it. So, once you have those kind of things in place on Siri settings, then you should be good to go. So, the first thing I want to talk to you about is just using Siri uh to find out things about general knowledge. General knowledge are things that I call sort of out in the world. Siri also knows personal knowledge, which are contextual and things that are specifically on your iPhone or iPad. But with general knowledge, it's pretty simple. So, I'm just going to press the side button. How many albums did The Beatles sell? >> The Beatles have sold over 600 million albums worldwide. In United States alone, their album sales exceed 177
3:51 million copies. >> How many records did the Eagles sell? >> The Eagles have sold more than 200 million records worldwide, including 100 million in the United States alone. >> How deep is Lake Michigan? >> Lake Michigan has an average depth of about 279 ft, 85 m, and reaches a maximum depth of 923 ft, 281 m. >> That's an example of general knowledge question. So, if you have something
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6:55 But, you have things on your phone, I have things on my phone, and you can ask those types of personal questions. And let me give you an example of that. Did I call Carol recently? >> The last time you called Carol Canterbury was on August 28th, 2026. >> Did I tell Carol I bought a 3D printer? >> Yes, you told Carol Canterbury on September 26th, 2026 that you bought a 3D printer.
7:43 >> Did I call Rhonda yesterday? >> No, you didn't call Rhonda yesterday. Your last call with Rhonda Bolen was on September 17th, 2026. >> So, that's an example of contextual things. You can also ask Siri just about anything that's on your iPhone. Do I have an Apple note about making videos on YouTube? >> Yes, you have a few notes related to making videos on YouTube. One is titled 06 August 2nd, how to save your favorite YouTube videos to Apple notes, which includes a script for a video about saving YouTube videos.
8:28 >> See, that's pretty handy. Okay, the next thing I want to show you is how to use your camera with Siri. And this is really um something that's cool, and I know that I'm going to find myself using this particularly when I'm out and about. But right now, I've got my Logitech mouse sitting there, and what I'm going to do is open the camera app. And down here, I'm going to tap on Siri. I'm going to slide it over to Siri. And then I'm going to aim it at my Logitech mouse right there, and I'm going to tap Siri. And here, you can see that Siri has found this as the Logitech MX Master 3S, and that's correct. So, all I did
9:14 was take my camera, slide it to Siri, point it at whatever I'm looking at, and then tap the Siri icon, and boom, I get information about what I'm looking at. So, Siri has the ability to see what you see, and then tell you what you're looking at. That is really, really handy. Okay, before I mentioned that I have Siri do donkey work for me. By that, I just mean I ask Siri to do certain things that I don't really feel like typing in or, you know, little tiddly bit things like that, but they're important. So, let me give you an example of that how you can ask Siri to do certain tasks for you. Schedule a doctor's appointment for 11:00 a.m. tomorrow.
10:00 >> I've created a calendar event for your doctor's appointment at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow, October 18th, 2026. Would you like to add details like a location or notes? >> No. Um here's another example. Remind me to buy nails the next time I'm at Lowe's in Wake Forest. >> I've added a reminder to buy nails when you arrive at Lowe's in Wake Forest. >> Create a new note and add to it my recent payment to T-Mobile. >> I've created a new note with the details
10:47 from your recent T-Mobile payment of $16.64 on September 29th, 2026. >> So, let's just check that. So, I'm going to go into my calendar and here we do. We see a doctor's appointment tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. So, Siri did get that right. Let's go to reminders and see if that was put in there. Yep. Buy nails when arriving at Lowe's. So, my phone will vibrate in my pocket or make a little sound and I'll get a notification and that'll pop up saying, "Hey, don't forget to buy nails." So, that's pretty handy, too, and I didn't have to type any of this stuff in. I'm just using my voice. And then let's go into notes and see what happened there. And here we go.
11:32 Uh she did create a note that shows that I paid 1664 on September 29th uh to T-Mobile. I didn't have to type any of that stuff in. I just asked Siri to create it and she created it. I think that is really really handy. So, the last thing I want to talk to you about is just the Siri app. Before iOS 27, there was no app dedicated to Siri. It was just Siri on your phone. But now you have an app and the conversations you have with her are stored in that app. Let me show you what I mean. So, I'm going to open up the Siri app and this is what the Siri app looks like right there. And you'll see that the conversations that I I've had right here. Here's the conversation about the Logitech mouse.
12:20 Actually did that as a test run. If you want to delete them, you can slide it over and delete like that. Here's the YouTube video note that I asked her about, the conversation that I had there. Here's the call history with Rhonda that I asked about. And when you're in the Siri app, you can continue the conversation that you started before. So, I'll open the Logitech Master uh 3S conversation. And I'll ask Siri uh to continue this. Is there a newer version of this mouse? And there. There's now the Logitech MX Master 4. So, I have continued the
13:06 conversation that I started before. And all of those conversations are stored in the app. But that's just the new power of Siri, the ability for Siri to take requests and and uh give you general information, find specific information on your phone, set up appointments, and it's all working so much better. So, what do you think? Will you use Siri to help you do these things? Let me know in the comments below. Okay? That's it for today. Thanks so much for watching and as always, I'll see you in the next video.
