Siri strides forward

Siri has its critics, but Apple is pushing the platform in a positive direction by adding new uses for your voice driven personal assistant. Developers will be able to leverage its abilities in more varied ways in the future to let Siri help you throughout the day and within many of the third-party apps that you use often. Siri may be catching up with the competition very soon.

1 Siri shortcuts

You can now create shortcuts for activities that you do often. This will enable you to automate many of these tasks and to understand just how beneficial Siri can be.

2 Siri suggestions

Siri will intelligently offer suggestions for apps you use by understanding your various usage patterns over time. Potentially, this could grow into a very powerful tool.

3 Celebrity facts

It’s not all serious because Siri can now offer answers to questions about celebrities and the results are displayed in a way that gives you all of the information you need.

4 Know your food

Almost everything you need to know about food and drink can now be garnered using Siri. The results can help you to keep healthy and to even lose weight.

5 Over to the developers

The future of Siri will largely depend on how third-party developers embrace the new features, but they have the power to lift Siri to new heights which will benefit us all.