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Siri, Apple's favorite voice and pocket assistant is becoming even larger part of the Apple experience. In a way, you can say that Siri has graduated, and has moved from smartphones and tablets to desktop computers. At the WWDC 2016 event, Apple announced the new Mac OS Sierra, where Siri integration will be the focal point. With that in mind, fans are asking what can Siri do on your Mac? Now I will explain you how to use Siri in macOS Sierra.
In the past several years, Apple has used Continuity to make your iPhone experience better with a Mac computer. With Siri on board, using a Mac computer will be much better for iPhone users than for Android users. Siri is icing on the cake for the new Mac OS Sierra, as Apple has finally embraced the fact that using a personal assistant on your desktop computer or laptop is actually pretty darn nice.
Let's start from the beginning. Once you install the new Mac OS Sierra, you will be asked to Enable Siri. Enabling the voice assistant will place two icons on your computer for launching, in the dock and in the menu bar.
One of the key features of Siri is conducting search using your voice. Note that Apple already has a pretty good search engine, but Siri works in a different way. In time, Siri and Apples search engine might be combined into one, but for now, Siri can do any search you ask. And thanks to the new categorization in Sierra, Siri will be even smarter. For example, when you are searching photos, you can ask “Show me photos from last week”, or “show me photos from my holiday in France”.
One of the common usage for Siri however, will be to ask questions like you do on your iPhone. You can ask when the latest movie is showing, and Siri will show it in your browser. You can ask for popular Flick pictures, and Siri will list them for you.
Siri will offer you hands-free messaging with friends. You can use Siri for Twitter, WeChat or any other messaging tool. If you want to tweet something, just shout “Tweet I am enjoying a movie”, and Siri will do the rest. You can even add hashtags to your messages and tweets, as Siri is smart enough to sub out the word “hashtag” from the word itself.
Your new voice assistant will help you with settings, but not for all settings. Some of the actions Siri can do are lower and increase volume, turn Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on and off, start the screen saver or put your Mac to sleep.
Last, but not least, whenever you feel like you want nothing and nobody to disturb you, just shout “do not disturb”, and you’ll be stress free to watch a movie or listen to music. You just need to setup the do not disturb option in settings. You can turn off all alerts and notifications.
When Apple introduced Siri, it didn't take long for the company to find a way to integrate Siri with PDF documents. Siri on iPads can be used to read books from PDF documents, but there is no word whether this feature will be available on the Mac Sierra. But for anything else PDF related, Mac users can get Wondershare PDFelement for Mac, a great tool for copying files, editing files, inserting files and everything else you can think of in a PDF document. The tool also allows you to add watermarks to your PDF documents, as well as sign them using the digital signature.
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