iOS 9 comes with a host of new features with Siri as the common core. While proactive features were the star of the show, Siri as we know it has also gained some new features. In particular, you can ask Siri to respond to new commands related to photos, reminders, and even content you're currently viewing.
Summary“Remind me tomorrow at 11am. ““Remind me to get gas when I get in my car. “Show me some pictures I took last week. “I want to see my pictures from New York last year. »The public version of iOS 9 will be available in the fall of 2015, but if you have access to the beta, these new features are immediately available.
Starting with iOS 9, Siri can now set reminders about specific content you're watching on your screen. For example, if you receive a new text message that you plan to meet somewhere, you can tell Siri to remember "this". Using "this" tells Siri that you're talking about what you're currently watching.
This Siri trick works in multiple apps, including Safari, Mail, Notes, Maps, and Messages. Siri then sets a text reminder in the Reminders app with an icon for the mentioned app. When tapped, it takes you back to where you needed to come back from – whether it's a website, a note, an email, a message, etc. .
Siri has been able to set location-based reminders since its early days, such as when you arrive at work or leave home. Now Siri has gotten a little smarter by adding an extra location:your car.
Since your iPhone now knows when you're in your vehicle thanks to CarPlay, you can tell Siri to remind you of certain things when you get in your car.
Note: For this feature to work, you must own a vehicle with built-in Apple CarPlay functionality. Otherwise, Siri is unable to know your car or when you are there.
When you set a reminder like this, Siri confirms that it has set a reminder that will appear once you are in your car and connected.
As a bonus, you can use car reminders in conjunction with the "this" format to set cool reminders that work together. For example, if you're looking at a restaurant in Maps and don't want to forget it later, tell Siri "Remind me of this when I get in my car" for directions when you're ready to leave.
With iOS 8, Apple introduced the ability to search the Photos app by typing album names, locations, and dates, among other things that can help you filter through your library. In iOS 9, the next step is to integrate this functionality into Siri.
As a basic example, you can now ask Siri to show you photos or videos you've taken during a specific time period. Phrases you can say to Siri include "Show me pictures from yesterday", "Show me videos I took last week", or even "I want to see pictures from May 30".
Important: Don't worry about security. Even in the first iOS 9 beta, Apple locked down your photos. If you ask Siri to open photos from the lock screen, you must first unlock your phone with your password.
Even more than just specifying a date, Siri can take photos of specific events. It could be from saying an album name like "Trisha's Birthday Dinner" or a place like New York.
Combine locations and dates for an even more precise search of your iCloud Photo Library. As someone with over 2,000 photos in my library, you can imagine how hard it is to find photos of specific events when I can't remember when it was or if I ever even put them in an album.
Telling Siri to "show me pictures of Hyannis, MA last year" immediately brought up dozens of photos from my trip to Cape Cod last July. I could also say "show me photos of Hyannis" to see all my annual photos at once after six consecutive years of traveling there.
