AppleInsider Staff
Apple's HomePod is out and users are impressed by the smart speaker's premium sound quality, but some have yet to take full advantage of its voice control functionality. To help users get started, AppleInsider collected a few useful phrases and commands that highlight Siri's capabilities.
Here's a list of the commands seen in the video above. Try them out with your HomePod by first invoking Siri by saying, "Hey Siri."
Music:
- Play Beats 1 radio
- Set volume to 50%
- Who sings this song?
- Add this song to my favorites
- Add this song to my Apple Watch playlist.
- Play some classical orchestra music
Reminders:
- Remind me to go to the store today
- Read my reminders
Alarms and timers:
- Set an alarm for [time]
- I'm awake
- Set an alarm for 7 in the morning and make it repeat everyday
- Delete my [time] alarm
- Set a timer for half an hour.
- How much time is left on the timer?
- Stop the timer
- When is daylight savings time?
Lists:
- Make a shopping list
- Add bananas to shopping list
- Read my shopping list
- Delete my shopping list
Conversions, translation and language:
- How many ounces are in a cup?
- How many teaspoons make one tablespoon?
- How many calories are in a tortilla?
- How many calories are in an orange?
- How do you say see you later in french?
- Translate Nice to meet you in Chinese.
- Convert 50 dollars to euros
- Define inevitable
Numbers:
- What's 80 x $21.59
- Now Multiply that by 24
- What's 20% of that?
Navigation:
- What's the traffic like going to work?
- How long does it take to drive to Seattle?
- Where's the closest gas station?
- Where can I buy some flowers?
- Where can I buy a replacement light bulb?
- Where's the nearest ATM?
- Where's the nearest Redbox?
- Where can I get some coffee?
- Where's the nearest pizza place?
Current events:
- What's the news today?
- Switch to Fox News.
- Give me the latest sports news.
- How's the stock market today?
- What's the best movie out right now?
- Give me showtimes for Jumanji.
Miscellaneous:
- How tall is mount everest?
- Flip a coin
- Do you work for the FBI?
We'll be looking at HomeKit commands in a future video, so stay tuned.
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16 Comments
Anyone experiencing HomePod not hearing "Hey, Siri" during loud music playing? HomePod is supposed to hear even when music is loud but mine was unresponsive last night when testing it out.
That video triggered my Hey Siri.
Try 'Hey Siri what is absolute zero?" Believe it or not she doesn't say Google, she gives the correct answer. :)
...and we have the first one in, only took three posts :/
Dave: "Play music from my iTunes library that I ripped from CD."
Siri: "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that... unless you pay for iTunes match so you can stream music that you already paid for, and already have on your Mac, over the internet."
Dave: "Get lost. I'm buying a smarter smart speaker."