Apple’s Siri has fallen behind its virtual assistant competition. Google’s Assistant expertly surfaces information, while Amazon’s Alexa works with a staggering number of third-party apps for a broad variety of capabilities. Apple isn’t admitting defeat, though: Siri played a prominent role at WWDC, the company’s “Worldwide Developers Conference,” on Monday.
Specifically, Apple is finally tackling the issue of customization with its personal digital assistant: Making Siri do more, proactively, to make your day easier. Apple is primarily accomplishing this with a new tool called Siri Shortcuts, a sort of IFTTT built straight into iOS for personalizing and automating Siri commands and functions. Rather than completely relying on A.I. to predict information and tasks she should help you accomplish, Apple is giving users more control over Siri’s smarts—and that’s a good thing.
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