Siri Tips

Daily Tip: How to protect your iPhone or iPad with a Passcode Lock

By chrisoldroyd, Friday, Oct 21, 2011 a 10:35 pm

New to iOS, worried about the security of your iPhone or iPad, and wondering how to set a Passcode Lock for better protection? While the current version may not be perfect, it provides a number of real advantages over just leaving your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad unlocked. It's also easy to set up. here's how:

Daily Tip: How to add phonetic spelling to a contact for Siri

By Allyson Kazmucha, Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 a 7:31 pm

With the introduction of Siri many people want to be able to use voice prompts. But what if your iPhone 4S doesn't want to say a contact correctly. Maybe it doesn't even recognize what you're saying at all. Sometimes adding phonetic spelling will solve the problem.

Warning: Don't leave your iPhone unattended or risk pranks, data theft

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 a 10:52 am

Thanks to the quick Camera access and power of Siri as a virtual assistant, iOS 5 and iPhone 4S are more convenient than ever -- but they also leave you open to everything from pranks to data theft. We've talked about this extensively on the iPhone Live podcast but it's worth repeating here.

How to update your Twitter status from Siri on the iPhone 4S

By Andrew Wray, Friday, Oct 14, 2011 a 4:50 pm

Apple hasn't (yet?) added posting to Twitter to the tricks in Siri's bag, but if all you want to do is tweet out a quick status, you can add it yourself.

It's simple: Navigate to Twitter from Mobile Safari, jump into the mobile settings panel and make sure you have your mobile phone number setup with the service. Twitter will then spit out a number for you to text message Twitter updates to. For confirmation's sake, send a quick status update to the number to make sure the text is pushed to your Twitter timeline.

For more, see Clay Russel's write up below.