button below the screen). Tap the Apps button (
). Finally, find and tap the Settings icon (not Google Settings, which is different).You may have heard: For the first time since the dawn of computers, sales of PCs are dropping. Fast. By like 15 percent a year.
They’re being rapidly replaced by smartphones: beautiful, sleek, touch-screen phones that can run thousands of apps. Apps can turn a smartphone into a camera, music player, voice recorder, calendar, calculator, alarm clock, stopwatch, stock tracker, weather forecaster, flashlight, musical instrument, remote control, game machine, an e-book reader, and so on.
Some people say it can even make phone calls.
Many of the tips on the following pages direct you to adjust your phone’s settings, so you need to know how to do that. On an iPhone, here’s how to get there: Press the Home button (the big button below the screen). Then tap the Settings icon.
Giving instructions for Android phones is tricky, because phone companies make their own tweaks to the Android software; they put things in different places and give them different names. But in general, you make changes to Android settings like this:
Tap the Home button (the button below the screen). Tap the Apps button (). Finally, find and tap the Settings icon (not Google Settings, which is different).
The end-of-a-sentence automatic period trick
On a smartphone, you should complete each sentence by tapping the Space key twice.
This shortcut accomplishes three things: It creates a period, adds a space, and automatically capitalizes the next word you type. It saves you the trouble of finding the period (which, on the iPhone, is on a different keyboard layout), hitting the Space key, and then manually capitalizing the next letter.
(This technique works on every kind of smartphone: iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone. And on every BlackBerry ever made.)
Recharge in a hurry
You wake up. You reach for your phone. You wince: You thought that the phone had been charging all night, but it actually hadn’t been plugged in right. And you have a busy day ahead of you. You have to be out the door in 30 minutes. What’s the fastest possible way of charging your phone?
First, plug it into the wall, using the little prong adapter that came with it. That’ll charge it 30 minutes sooner than your computer’s USB jack would.
Second, put your phone into Airplane Mode. It will charge nearly twice as quickly. (All the electricity is coming into the battery, but none is going out; the phone isn’t wasting power hunting for a signal, checking e-mail, and so on.)
On the iPhone, here’s how to turn on Airplane Mode: Swipe your finger up from the bottom of the screen to open the Control Center, shown at left. Tap the top-left icon.
On Android, open Settings; then, under Wireless & Networks, tap More; turn on Airplane Mode. (It might be called Flight Mode.)
How to make your battery last twice as long
Having a touch-screen phone (iPhone, Android, etc.) is wonderful. You can watch movies, get driving directions, and read books.
Too bad the battery’s dead by dinnertime.
But once you know which elements are using the juice, you can make each charge last far longer—a couple of days, even.
• The screen: It’s the biggest gobbler of battery power on your phone. Turn it down to turn your battery life up.
And how do you do that? On the iPhone, drag your finger upward from beneath the screen to make the Control Center appear. The top slider controls the screen brightness.
On an Android phone, open Settings. Tap Display, then Brightness. Turn off “Automatic brightness”; use the slider, then tap OK.
• “Push” data: The next biggest battery drainer is “push” e-mail, which makes new messages appear in real time. What’s happening, of course, is that your phone is checking for messages every second, which uses power.
On the iPhone, you can tap Settings, then Mail, Contacts, Calendars, then Fetch New Data, then turn off Push. On Android, it’s Settings, E-mail Settings, Data Push.
• Wireless features: Your phone uses radio waves to connect to Wi-Fi hot spots and wireless Bluetooth gadgets. And a radio needs electricity.
If you can do without Wi-Fi or Bluetooth for a while, turn those features off to save juice. On the iPhone, you’ll find the on/off switches in the Control Center. On an Android phone, tap Settings; the on/off switches are right at the top.
• Background updating: Some apps frequently check the Internet for new information: Facebook, Twitter, stock-reporting apps, and so on, much to the dismay of your battery.
You can turn off that feature for individual apps. On the iPhone, tap Settings, then General, then Background App Refresh. You’ll see an on/off switch for each app. (There’s no similar feature on Android. But some Android phones offer a feature, called Extreme Power Saver or Ultra Power Saver, that turns off background app updating—and many other features—to save energy when your charge is low.)
• Final battery tips: Beware of 3-D games, which can be serious power hogs. And for goodness’ sake, put your phone into Airplane Mode whenever there’s no cell signal—when you’re in an airplane, for instance. If you forget, the phone pours even more power into its antenna, trying to find a signal—and you’ll burn through it in no time.
Stop the ringing instantly
Sooner or later, it happens to everyone: Your phone starts ringing at an inopportune moment. During a movie, for example, or a wedding, or a funeral.
At that moment, you probably want to shut the thing up, fast. Don’t be that idiot who wastes time pulling it out, waking it up, and tapping the Decline button on the screen.
Instead, just press any physical button on the side or top. Press the power button, for example, or one of the volume keys. Often, just wrapping your fingers around the phone and squeezing hard does the trick; you’ll hit one of the buttons in the process. And the phone will stop ringing.
Your caller will still hear the phone-ringing sound, but the call will eventually go to voice mail.
The secret Redial button
On a cell phone, you can call back the most recent person you’ve called with one touch.
On a smartphone (iPhone or Android, for example), tap the Call button on the dialing pad. Doing that puts the most recently dialed number into the typing box, as though you’d just typed it out again. Now tap Call again to place the call.
On cell phones that have keys, the equivalent trick is pressing the Talk key when you haven’t actually dialed anything yet. You get to see a list of all recent calls.
Bring a wet phone back from the dead
Don’t beat yourself up when your phone winds up in hot water—or any kind of water. Face it: You’re bringing a delicate piece of electronics into a life filled with rain, beaches, and toilets.
Phone makers are perfectly aware that more phones meet their demise from water encounters than from any other threat. That’s why most cell phones contain a sticker that changes color when it gets wet; the technicians know right away how your phone really died. “Sorry, that’s not covered by the warranty,” they’ll tell you.
But water has this delightful quality: It tends to disappear all by itself. To save a wet phone, therefore, all you have to do is make sure the evaporation happens before the damage does.
Turn off the phone. Remove and hand-dry all the pieces you can: the battery, the SIM card (the very tiny memory card that stores your account information), and memory card, for example.
Use a vacuum cleaner for 20 minutes to suck out as much water as you can. Patience, grasshopper. (Do not use a hair dryer, which will only blow water deeper into the phone.)
Finally, bury the phone in a container full of uncooked rice for 24 hours. Yes, rice. It absorbs moisture beautifully. (Change the phone’s angle once an hour, if you can, to help gravity help you.) Immerse the battery, if it’s removable, in a separate rice bowl.
After 24 hours, let the phone sit on a paper towel for a few hours. If there’s no dampness coming from the phone, try turning it on again. You might be astonished to discover that it works just fine. (If the moisture gods are against you, take it in for repair.)
How to bypass the voice mail instructions
Your leg is on fire, or your boss is choking, or towering alien tripods are advancing upon the city. You frantically dial for help. Your call goes to voice mail. And then you have to listen to 15 seconds of instructions: “You may begin speaking at the tone. To page this person, press 1. When you have finished recording, you may hang up, or press 5 for more options.”
Shut up. Shut up!
It is, in fact, possible to bypass that message with a key press, jumping directly to the “begin leaving your message” beep.
Unfortunately, to make your life as miserable as possible, each cell phone company requires a different keystroke to get to the beep:
• Verizon: Press *.
• AT&T: Press #.
• Sprint: Press 1.
• T-Mobile: You don’t need a keystroke. Its phones don’t play an instructional recording.
Of course, this means that every time you call someone, you have to know which cell phone carrier that person uses, which is a bit impractical.
If you’re not sure, you can press 1, then *, then #, listening after each press. Eventually, you’ll hit the right key. (The mnemonic: “One star pound.”)
And if you want to do the world some good, change your greeting to let the world know. (“Hi, this is David. Press star to hear the beep and leave a message.”)
Secrets of the three-inch keyboard
A phone with a screen that covers the entire front is great when you’re watching a video, reading e-mail, or playing a game. Unfortunately, now and then, you have to type. That’s when you long for the pleasures of a physical keyboard.
Still, that tiny on-screen keyboard isn’t quite as awful as it might seem. Just be sure you realize that:
• There doesn’t seem to be a Caps Lock key—at least not that you can see. So how are you supposed to type IN ALL CAPITALS? Simple: Tap the Shift key twice. It changes color to show that the Caps Lock key is on. (Tap once to turn it off.)
• The keyboard gets bigger when you turn the phone 90 degrees, becoming horizontal. Bigger keys give your fingers a bigger target.
• To type a punctuation mark, you’re supposed to tap the 123 key (to display punctuation and numbers), then tap the punctuation key, then return to your typing. But you can save a step or two by leaving your finger down on the key and then dragging it onto the punctuation key you want. When you release your finger, your phone types the symbol and flips back to the alphabet keys.
The hidden pop-up punctuation keys
The letters A through Z are generally enough to get your message across. But every now and then, you might want to go to a café. And order a piña colada. And pay with a €10 bill.
Those symbols (é, ñ, €, and so on) don’t appear on a smartphone’s main keyboard. You can switch to a special symbol layout—if you have all day. Fortunately, there’s a great shortcut: Hold your finger down on a letter key to see all of its accented variations.
For example, keep your finger pressed on the A key for one second to see a pop-up menu of accented A characters (À, Á, Â, Ä, and so on). Slide onto the one you want, and marvel as your phone types it.
Not all keys sprout this pop-up palette. But the vowel keys are loaded up with diacritical marks (like ü, å, i, ő). The $ key offers a choice of other currency symbols (€, £, ¥, W). You’ll find the degree symbol (°) hiding behind the letter O.
The hidden Web-address suffix keys
On the iPhone, a very similar shortcut awaits when you’re trying to type a Web address or e-mail address. If you hold down your finger on the period key (.), you get a pop-up menu of common endings for Web addresses—.com, .gov, and .edu.
Use that. Learn that. It’ll save you a lot of time over the years.
When autocorrect gets it autowrong
Autocorrect, of course, is that helpful phone feature that instantly fixes anything you type “incorrectly.” For example, if you type pikcle, the phone realizes that you meant pickle and automatically replaces what you typed.
The problems begin when autocorrect fixes a word that was, in fact, perfectly fine. Suppose, in an effort to be cute, you type It’s very flustrating. Right before your eyes, the phone changes that to It’s very flu starting (on the iPhone) or It’s very frustrating (on Android). Which can flustrate you indeed.
Fortunately, the phone always reveals its evil plan ahead of time. On the iPhone, the replacement proposal appears in a little bubble. On Android, it’s in the row of suggested words above the keyboard.
If you simply keep typing, that’s the replacement you’ll get. But if you can see that the suggestion is wrong, tap the bubble with your finger (iPhone), or tap the word you actually typed, shown first in the suggestions row (Android). That shuts the phone right up—and next time you type that word, autocorrect won’t try to replace it.
(If it’s too late, and you accidentally accepted the suggestion, tap the Backspace key. A word bubble appears, which you can tap to restore what you had originally typed.)
You can also turn the autocorrect feature off entirely. On the iPhone, tap Settings, then General, then Keyboard, then turn off Auto-Correction. On Android, it’s Settings, Language & Input; tap the little settings icon next to Google Keyboard, then tap Auto-Correction and Off. (Your phone’s wording may be different; Android versions vary by maker.)
What to do when “we’re” auto-changes to “were”
Your smartphone is always working for you, trying to save steps and minimize annoyance. One example: It types apostrophes for you. If you tap out dont or cant or itll, your phone automatically types don’t or can’t or it’ll.
Pretty thoughtful, eh?
But a few other words aren’t so easy. If you type were, did you mean we’re? If you type ill, did you mean I’ll? If you type hell, did you mean he’ll? About half of the time, the phone makes the wrong guess.
At least you know when it’s about to guess wrong, thanks to that preview bubble. If you want a contraction and the phone doesn’t realize it, type the last letter twice.
For instance, if you want we’re but the phone thinks you want were, type an extra e, like this: weree. The phone types we’re.
And it works with I’ll and she’ll and he’ll and we’ll, too. Type an extra l at the end to force the phone to create the contraction. (It doesn’t work the other way. If you don’t want the apostrophe but the phone thinks you do, you’ll have to tap the suggestion bubble to reject it.)
Free directory assistance
Whatever you do, don’t dial 411 on your cell phone to get directory assistance. Your cell phone carrier will slap you with a $2.50 fee for the privilege.
Instead, call 800-FREE-411 (800-373-3411). It’s free directory assistance. The service offers both residential and business listings. You have to listen to a 10-second ad—but for most people, that’s a lot more palatable than a $2.50 fee.
How to delete an app
If you can’t figure out how to delete an app from your phone, it’s not your fault. It’s the designer’s fault for not making it obvious.
On the iPhone, hold your finger down on any one app’s icon until all of the icons begin to—what’s the technical term?—wiggle.
At that point, a little X appears on each icon; tap it to delete the app.
On an Android phone, tap Settings, then Apps (or “Application manager”). In the list of apps, tap the one you want to jettison, then tap Uninstall.
In both cases, you’ll discover that you’re not allowed to remove certain apps. Those are the ones preinstalled by your phone’s all-knowing maker (Apple or Google), which thinks it knows what’s best for you.
Zoom in to your iPhone
If the type on your iPhone’s screen is too tiny, or you want a better view of an app, you’re in luck: You can magnify the screen.
Open Settings, then General, then Accessibility. Turn on Zoom.
From now on, whenever you need a closer view, double-tap the screen with three fingers at once. You’re now zoomed in. You can pan around your little Jumbotron by dragging with three fingers.
By the way, it’s amazing how many people wind up triggering this feature accidentally. You see them lining up at Apple Stores to get their “broken” iPhones fixed! They could have saved themselves a trip—and just double-tapped with three fingers again to restore the regular-size screen.
Take a picture of the phone screen
There are lots of reasons you might want to take a picture of your screen (called a screenshot). Maybe you’re getting some infuriating error message, which you want to send to a tech-support person. Maybe you want to immortalize something you’ve found online (a photo, a receipt, a mention of you). Maybe you’re writing a book about tech tips and you want to illustrate it.
Fortunately, it’s easy.
• On an iPhone or iPad: Press the Home button and the Sleep (on/off) button simultaneously.
• On an Android phone or tablet: Press the Home button and the Volume Down button simultaneously. (Some Samsung phones require that you hold the Home and Sleep buttons instead.)
• On a Windows 8 tablet: While pressing the Windows logo key (
), press the Volume Down button.
In each case, you’ve created a graphics file in your Camera Roll, within your Photos app. (“Camera Roll” means “all the pictures you’ve taken with this gadget’s own camera.”) You can send it, print it, or frame it just as you would any other photo.
Overseas travel without the $6,000 phone bill
It’s no problem to take your cell phone out of the country with you. Just don’t turn it on.
The Internet teems with stories of hapless Americans who came home from vacations to find cell phone bills for $5,000 or $6,000. In the foreign country, their phones quietly kept using the Internet in the background—checking e-mail, checking for software updates, updating Facebook posts. Unfortunately, when you’re out of the country, you’re subject to obscenely high international roaming rates—for Internet use, text messages, and phone calls.
You can outsmart all this, though. Here’s what you need to know:
• Put your phone into Airplane Mode but turn on Wi-Fi. Now you can get online whenever you’re in a Wi-Fi hot spot, but you’ll never use the cellular network, so you’ll never run up any charges.
• Call your cell phone carrier before you travel. If you sign up for its overseas-traveler plan, you can pay a one-time monthly surcharge (it’s $6 for AT&T, for example) in exchange for much lower roaming rates.
• If you’re on T-Mobile, don’t worry. Internet use and text messages are free overseas, and phone calls to other countries are twenty cents a minute. (This free Internet service is slow Internet service—good enough for e-mail and Web sites but not for watching videos. You can pay for faster speed if you need it.)
Free maps without an Internet connection
And speaking of overseas travel: If you’re a fan of the Google Maps app on your phone—and you should be—you’ll like this tip. You can still use Google Maps overseas, even with your phone in Airplane Mode—if you’ve planned ahead.
While you’re still home, with Internet service, call up the map area you’ll want to use while you’re abroad. Tap the banner at the bottom of the screen (lower left in the illustration below); on the next screen, tap “Save map to use offline” (top right).
The app gives you the opportunity to scroll the map and zoom in or out, to isolate the area you care about. (The bigger the area, the more space the saved map will take on your phone. About five miles across is the maximum area.)
Tap Save. Type a name for your saved offline map (like “London downtown”).
Once you land in London (and turned your phone to Airplane Mode to avoid going bankrupt), open Google Maps. Tap the little person icon (third from top on the facing page). Voilà: Here’s the list of Offline Maps you’ve saved. Tap the one you want (bottom).
It opens. You can zoom in to the tiniest street details, all without having to use the Internet. The map can’t give you navigation instructions, but at least you have a map to consult.
How to take better phone selfies
Every modern smartphone has a camera on both the front and the back. The one on the front (above the screen) exists so that you can join the photographic craze of the decade: selfies. (That is, self-portraits.)
Unfortunately, it’s tricky to hold the camera far enough away from you to snap a decent self-portrait, especially if you’re with a friend.
One solution: get a free self-timer app. There are dozens, for iPhones, Android, and so on. And in iOS 8, a timer is built into the Camera app.
If you have an iPhone, here’s another idea: plug in your white earbuds. You can use the volume-up button (+) on the cord as a remote control! Perch the iPhone on a wall, a shelf, or a barrel; then, thanks to the extra length of the earbud cord, you can back away before you snap the shot.
(You can use the middle button on the cord, the Play/Pause button, as start/stop in video mode.)
Training your gadget to stop interrupting you with hot spot names
Your phone is only trying to help.
Every time it senses that you’re in a new Wi-Fi hot spot, it interrupts whatever you’re doing with an announcement like what you see at left. It’s looking out for your Internet needs, and that’s great. But it can get annoying if it keeps popping up while you’re trying to do something on the phone—type something, dictate something, or defeat aliens.
Turns out that you can tell the phone to shut up—to stop offering the names of Wi-Fi hot spots it has found.
• iPhone: Open Settings. Tap Wi-Fi. Turn off Ask to Join Networks.
• Android: Open Settings. Tap “Wireless and Networks,” then Wi-Fi. Turn off Network Notification.
From now on, your phone won’t bug you about new Wi-Fi networks it finds. If you want to hop onto a new network, you’ll have to do it manually, on the Wi-Fi page of your phone’s Settings app.
What those bizarre square bar codes are all about
They’re everywhere: on cereal boxes, bus-shelter ads, magazines, brochures, airplane boarding passes. Those weird little alien-looking black-and-white squares full of square dots. Surely at some point you’ve wondered, “What is that thing?”
They’re called QR codes. (It stands for Quick Response, but that won’t be on the test.) Truth is, advertisers are much more excited about these codes than regular people are; most people have never scanned one in their lives.
QR codes are supposed to make it easier to get more information. When you hold up your phone to a QR code and scan it, your Web browser opens on the phone and shows you a Web page about whatever you’ve scanned.
That’s the idea, anyway. But to scan a QR code, there’s a lot of setup. First, you need a smartphone, like an iPhone or Android phone. Second, you need an app that reads QR codes. There are dozens of these apps, most of them free; you may as well get RedLaser (for iPhone or Android). It does a great job of reading QR codes (and traditional bar codes, too).
That’s a lot of effort just to read somebody’s ads. Now that you know what QR codes are, you can safely ignore them completely. That’s what most people are doing already.
How to find your lost phone
Unless you’re handy with duct tape, there will come a day when you and your cell phone are separated. Maybe you’ll leave it in a hotel room; maybe you just won’t remember where it is in the house. Or maybe it will slip under the seat of the car.
In all of these situations, you’ll be grateful for the world’s greatest free feature: Find My Phone. It shows your phone’s current position on a map (if you left it somewhere in your travels)—or lets you make it start loudly chiming (so you can locate it in your house). If you’re worried that some villain will riffle through your private e-mails, you can also lock the phone or even erase it, all by remote control.
Sound useful? Then set it up now, before you lose the phone.
• iPhone: Open Settings; tap iCloud. Turn on Find My iPhone. (This feature is one of the many perks of signing up for a free iCloud account, which you can do at icloud.com.)
• Android: Open the Google Settings app. (It’s not the same thing as the regular Settings app.) Tap Android Device Manager. Turn on “Remotely locate this device” and “Allow remote lock and erase.” Tap Activate.
Now then. When the sad day comes that you can’t find your phone, here’s what to do: Open up a Web browser on your computer, tablet, or another phone. Then:
• iPhone: Sign in to iCloud.com. Click Find My iPhone.
• Android: Sign in to google.com/android/devicemanager.
In either case, the Web site updates to show you, on a map, the current location of your phone. (If it’s turned off or the battery is dead, you’re out of luck.)
But wait, there’s more. If the phone is somewhere in the house, or in some coat pocket, or in the car somewhere, you can make it start ringing loudly for a few minutes—even if it’s asleep or the ringer is off.
• iPhone: Click the dot representing your phone, click the 
next to its name, and then click Play Sound.
• Android: Click Ring, and then click Ring in the confirmation box.
You can also password-protect your phone by remote control.
• iPhone: Click Lost Mode. The Web site asks for a phone number where you can be reached; when you click Next, you can compose a message you want displayed on the iPhone’s Lock screen. When you click Done, your message will appear on the phone’s screen, wherever it is—and the phone will lock itself. Whoever finds it can’t miss the message and can’t miss the Call button that’s right there on the Lock screen.
• Android: Click Lock. You’re asked for a password that will protect your missing phone.
Finally, if there’s sensitive data on the phone, you can also erase everything on it by remote control. (If it’s ever returned, you can restore it from your backup.)
• iPhone: Click Lost Mode, if you haven’t already. Click Erase iPhone. Confirm the dire warning box, enter your iCloud ID, and click Erase.
• Android: Click Erase. Click Erase in the warning box.
Note that once you’ve erased your phone, you can no longer use any of the Find My Phone features on it.
Dismiss the iPhone banner
Several times a day, the iPhone seems to want your attention: Every time you get an e-mail, a text message, a Facebook update, and so on. In general, such notifications appear as banners at the top of the screen.
It hangs around for a few seconds, long enough for you to read it, and then it disappears.
You’re not required to put your life on hold until it disappears, however. You can just flick it away with your finger—upward. That’s handy when it’s (a) blocking what you’re trying to read or (b) humiliating you in front of someone you’re trying to impress.
By the way: You can also shut up these notifications on an app-by-app basis. To do that, open Settings, then tap Notification Center. If you really don’t need all these alerts from Facebook, for example, tap Facebook, and then tap None for the notification style.
iPhone: Jump back to the top of any list
You spend much of your iPhone life in lists. Lists of e-mail, lists of search results, lists of photo albums. Lists of notes, of tweets, of Facebook messages.
A phone’s screen is fairly small, though, at least compared with the one on your computer, TV, or local Cineplex. So you have to do a lot of scrolling.
But not when you want to jump back up. To return to the top of any list (in any app), tap the top. That is, tap the status bar above the screen. The list dutifully springs to the beginning.
Coming to an understanding with Siri
Siri is the iPhone’s speech-recognition feature. Lots of people complain that her voice comprehension isn’t perfect. And it’s true: When you dictate a message to your iPhone (click the 
button next to the Space bar on the screen), she usually makes a few transcription errors that you have to fix by hand.
That’s why some people never bother “voice typing.” And that’s fine.
But Siri’s voice command aspect is a different story. It virtually always works. Siri understands hundreds of voice commands, but here are a few especially useful ones. (Hold down the phone’s Home button until you hear a double beep, then speak.)
• “Wake me at 7:45 a.m.” You’ve just set your phone’s alarm without having to open an app, fiddle with dials, or even touch the screen.
• “Open Calendar.” The Open command opens any app without your having to scroll through pages of apps to find it. You can say, “Open Mail,” “Open Music,” “Open Safari”… anything.
• “Call Michelle’s work number.” Siri can dial any number in your phone’s Contacts list. You can also say things like “Phone home,” “Call Mom,” or “Dial 512-444-1212.” (If Siri doesn’t know who your mom is, she asks you to choose your mom’s card in the Contacts list. After that, Siri will always know.)
• “What’s the weather going to be like this weekend?” The wording doesn’t matter. You can also say, “Will it snow in Miami this weekend?” or “What’s the high for Washington on Friday?” or “Should I wear a jacket in Fairbanks tomorrow?”
• “What’s a 15 percent tip on 37 dollars?” Ask Siri math questions. She’s amazing.
Actually, she can handle any factual information that would ordinarily have you skittering off to Google. “What’s the capital of Germany?” “What’s the world’s tallest mountain?” “What flights are overhead?”
And sports trivia—oh, boy. Ask her anything. “What was the score of the Dolphins game last night?” “When’s the next Cowboys game?” “Are the Knicks playing today?” “Who has scored the most touchdowns against the Giants?” “Who’s got the highest batting average in the Major Leagues?”
Siri: She’s hours of fun for the whole family.
One more thing about Siri
If you utter one of the commands described in the previous tip and Siri mishears you, there’s no need to start over. You can tap directly on your transcribed command and edit it.
You can also scroll up to see your earlier Siri conversations. (Most people think that once they’ve asked a new question, the previous questions and answers are gone forever.)
