Siri in iOS 9. What's new

Apple yesterday evening He held a presentation at WWDC 2015 developers and introduced updated versions OS X, iOS and the Watch OS. Despite the many innovations in the OS X 10.11 and Watch OS 2, the most attractive yet iOS is 9. It boasts of new applications and features, but the most interesting - this is probably the updated Siri. On it will be discussed below.

Voice Assistant is a better place both in visual and functional terms. Of all that was made yesterday about of Siri, you can highlight a few basic facts.

New design

Apple often refreshes the design of their products with the addition of what some significant innovations. It happened with Siri in iOS interface 9. assistant design became more airy and now has more similarities with those on the Apple Watch. This is logical, given the Apple policy of unification of their products and ensure a unified user experience across all devices.

Siri has become smarter

Voice Assistant could deal, but in some respects still not call up the competition level. Now Siri has become much smarter she understands complex queries, knows of currently used applications and can offer a variety of activities based on these data.

For complex queries, but now you can ask Siri to find photos from a particular event or show a specific email sender. For example, at the presentation of Craig I asked Siri to find a photo with "karaoke" and immediately got pictures with the inimitable Eddie Kew.

Even more interesting is the ability to Siri to perform various commands, taking into account currently in use application. Say you searched at lunchtime sites with design kitchen and would like to discuss a favorite project with his wife, when you get home in the evening. Not to forget, it is necessary, without leaving Safari, launch Siri and just ask her to recall this - will create a reminder with reference to the place, with reference to the same site.

Requests are processed faster

According to Craig Federighi, of Siri has become not only more intelligent, but also faster. In iOS 9 query processing speed increased by 40%. We can not say that before assistant "loose", but sometimes needed to process the request for some time, especially in a weak network connection. We must understand that these times are now things of the past. Not for nothing because Apple bought all of these startups to work with servers.

deep integration

An important work is the integration of Siri with iOS. As we saw at the presentation, Assistant "friends" with the updated Spotlight and offers relevant contacts and applications in a small widget, which is located under the search bar. Similarly, the need to work and the other third-party tools built into iOS. For example, if you receive a message or a letter of invitation to the meeting will create a reminder with the corresponding date and time.

But this integration is not an end. With the new API for developers, Siri will be able to use data from third-party applications to better handle requests in the context of current events. Thus, it can be added to the "Calendar" event, if there is a mention in correspondence time. This is done with the command "Remind me about this."

Proactive Assistant

Another key new feature is Siri Proactive Assistant mode, in which the voice assistant will be able to to predict your behavior, to facilitate the work and save you time by eliminating the need to perform routine actions.

The simplest example - a player to start automatically when you connect headphones. That is, you wake up in the morning and going for a run, connect to the iPhone headphones. Siri knows about your habit of jogging in the morning to the music and immediately launches a player, displaying controls on the lock screen. Or, for example, you are driving to work like listening to podcasts in the car - when you connect iPhone Siri remember it and start a podcast where you left off yesterday.

Probably, the same will apply to applications and websites that you frequently use or view in certain situations. And, of course, this feature is optional and resist setting.

Security

Confidentiality of user data is very important, especially when the system is literally digging around our "junk." Many are wary of this kind of things, so Apple once assured us that all the new features Siri does not bind to the Apple ID. From the stage made a statement that access to the new features will be based on randomly generated identifiers that are not transferred to third parties. All personal data will remain under the control of the user.

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iOS 9 with the updated Siri It is now available for developers, A public beta to be released within the next month. The official release is traditionally held in autumn, simultaneously with the presentation of the new iPhone and the iPad line.