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I've heard this sentiment with 3D Touch and Siri before. I'm probably an outlier, but I use each about a dozen times or so a day. 3D Touch is one of the reason
by chipx86 10y ago
I've heard this sentiment with 3D Touch and Siri before. I'm probably an outlier, but I use each about a dozen times or so a day.
3D Touch is one of the reasons I upgraded to the 6S. Lack of 3D Touch was the one thing that disappointed me the most about the new iPad Pro. I wasn't sure at first if it was something I'd end up using long-term, but it didn't take long for me to develop a lot of habits around it. Here are some of my daily actions through 3D Touch:
* When I go to Starbucks, I use 3D Touch to get to the app's Pay option.
* I use it on the Phone app to quickly dial the people I call the most.
* Same with iMessage.
* I use it on Sleep Cycle to quickly start my morning alarm.
* On Intercom to speed up launching/getting to the part of the UI I want (People vs. different support mailboxes).
* Day One to quickly record a journal entry.
* Drafts to jot down a quick bit of info (someone's name or something, or a thought) to later process/organize somewhere.
* Pandora to quickly get to my most-used stations (I only really have a few I often use, so it's perfect)
When I need to place a call and am in the middle of something (getting ready in the morning, looking something up, making dinner, etc.), I use Siri. Actually, I'd say most of my calls are placed with Siri unless I have the phone in my hand.
"Hey Siri, call <person> on speakerphone" is pretty common here.
I also use Siri to start timers for laundry or to remind me of something I need to think about later. "Hey Siri, in 4 hours, remind me to do <blah>".
I hate naps, but sometimes I need them. "Hey Siri, wake me in 30 minutes."
I ask her every day in the morning what the weather's going to be like. Even though I live in Palo Alto and it's not exactly hard to guess. Super handy when I'm going to go somewhere else though.
I also use her as an app launcher pretty frequently. Mostly in the morning when I want to kick off some music at home. I'll wake up, start getting dressed, and say "Hey Siri, launch Harmony." Since that takes a few seconds to launch sometimes, I do that while I'm otherwise occupied. Then when I can get to the phone, I just have to tap the item on the screen to get music going.
My car will let me know when I have incoming texts, but I can't respond through it, so Siri's also my dictation if I'm stopped at a red and need to fire off a message to someone saying I'm late.
So that's how I use 3D Touch and Siri. Consider me a data point :)
- theshrike79 10y agoSame here. I use Siri for everything that would be slower to do by hand, or my hands are busy. "Wake me up in X minutes" "Call <person>" "Remind me to ... [in X hours, in the evening, when I get home]" "What's the weather like today", when I'm getting ready in the morning "What's on my agenda today?", while driving to work I rarely use Siri to query for specific data, which seems to be the thing Google Now does well. Siri for me is just a way to operate the phone faster.