“Apple rolled out an update for iPhones and iPads on Tuesday, iOS 11.2.5, which lets you ask Siri to play a variety of news content,” Todd Haselton reports for CNBC.
“It builds on a feature introduced in the last update, iOS 11.2.2, which let you ask Siri to recite the news but was limited to content from select sources,” Haselton reports. “Now you can ask it to play music, sports and business news, too.”
“First, make sure you’re updated to iOS 11.2.5,” Haselton reports. “Next… simply say ‘Siri, play the news,’ and it will default to playing news from NPR in the United States, but you can say ‘switch to The Washington Post,’ ‘switch to Fox News‘ or ‘switch to CNN,’ too. The feature is currently only supported in the U.S., UK and Australia.”
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MacDailyNews Take: It works very well on our iPhone X units! We can’t wait to try it on our HomePods!
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Apple releases iOS 11.2.5 – January 23, 2018
Amazing, simply amazing.
“MacDailyNews Take: It works very well on our iPhone X units! We can’t wait to try it on our HomePods!”
And we all know which news source MDN is tuned into…Fox news..
But that’s Fake News. Ugh. NEVER.
I’ll try Washington Post… CNN… Dan Rather..
I get it. I’ll give 5 stars.
😉
Finally, the bulk of the U.S. population is wise to the leftist propaganda apparatus that is the American mainstream media.
You have decently been watch too much Fox PR.
Yeah, because that’s real news your a joke
…but not in Canada! Odd that Canada is missed out on this rollout…
Wow this is awesome. And it keeps playing in the background after you minimize it and open another app.
Well done, Apple.
Isn’t that how it should work? Why give Apple praises for minimal performance?
I’ve been using Siri to play music for some time. Wonder how this implementation differs.
Oh… “recite” music. Guess that can be interesting.
I will set the voice to Robotic and the channel to Fox News. I will laugh and laugh.
recite “the news” according to who; more dumbing down of the broad citizenry; or will it be smart news reading, where it finds news that reinforces views? that’d be helpful; how about if Apple focus on other wasted opportunities that have a chance of generating shareholder value? yeah i’m looking at you applepay, apple watch projects, IOT in-home connectivity, enterprise, connected car, map etal search disintermediation; instead we get new gimmicky phones with animated stickers. Neato!
This is probably the most revolutionary feature I have ever heard of. Can your modular Mac Pro do this? No.
Yes it can. Macs can do anything iOS devices can do. If you know how to code, they can do more things, faster, with much more display and interface options.
The only thing ios offers is portability.
The modular Mac Pro doesn’t exist, so no, it can’t.