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While Apple's personal assistant Siri may be irritating to use at times it comes stocked in iOS with thousands of uses. In today's how-to find out how to usefully use Siri in your life with 5 quick and simple tips.
Take a look at the video to see what to do.
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hi I'm Joshua Smith and you're watching
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a cult toac howto video though Apple's
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personal assistant Siri can be
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irritating to use there are thousands of
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useful ways that it can help you if you
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take the time and patience to test it
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out so I thought I'd share with you five
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useful Siri tips that can help you
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become more productive and get the
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things done in your life quicker so stay
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tuned to check it out
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first up James Davis is my best friend
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Siri can remember your contacts by
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labels like mom sister and tons more you
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want me to remember that James Davis is
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your best friend this way whenever
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you're using Siri later on you can just
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say text my sister or my grandpa and it
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will automatically know who you're
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talking about customize your contacts by
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voice or by going into your contact page
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and you can choose and add the labels
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yourself number two text my best friend
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that it's time to go now that you have
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contact save with labels you can use
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them naturally with Siri like when
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sending texts Siri send a text to my mom
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saying I'm on my way or send a text to
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my boss saying sorry I'm running late a
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lot faster than typing it all out tell
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my dad that Siri is a lot more useful
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than you think and definitely convenient
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ready to send
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it tip number three read my messages
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from James Davis while you can always
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unlock your iPhone and open up your
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messages app to read your text you you
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could always just have Siri do it for
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you yeah it wasn't worth 9 and even if
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you want to send a reply just say it and
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you can send it so whether you're in
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your car I just need to send off a
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message really quick Siri got you back
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okay I won't send it number four check
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my email you can have Siri pull up your
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email wow you have at least 25 emails
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since last Friday without having to
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Fumble with opening an app and going
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through different boxes Siri can pull up
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what you've missed in seconds and you
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can even have it read them to you last
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Tuesday at 3:32 p.m. so when you're on
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your way to work you can turn down the
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radio and listen to your inbox and even
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send emails out by voice which is pretty
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cool and last but not least tip number
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five instead of holding down the home
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button Siri has a setting where you can
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activate it by raising your phone to
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speak just slide it on and you're good
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to go how are the Miami Heat doing a
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quicker way to get the info you need
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just raise your phone the heat face the
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Pacers in game three of the Eastern
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Conference Finals on Sat Saturday at
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7:30
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p.m. there you have it use these five
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steps on a daily basis and get things
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done faster and easier than before okay
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I found this on the
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web hey thanks for watching this episode
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of C toax howto feel free to comment or
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tweet at us other things you'd like us
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to show you how to do we want to know
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and don't forget to subscribe to see
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videos posted every single day this has
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been Joshua Smith and I'll catch you
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later
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