{"id":8765,"date":"2023-11-01T16:06:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=10103"},"modified":"2023-11-01T17:19:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T21:19:51","slug":"the-hey-part-of-hey-siri-is-now-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/the-hey-part-of-hey-siri-is-now-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cHey\u201d Part of \u201cHey Siri\u201d Is Now Optional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Siri, particularly on a HomePod, you\u2019re probably accustomed to saying \u201cHey Siri\u201d as the trigger phrase before your requests. In Apple\u2019s new operating systems for 2023, you can now choose to invoke Siri using the traditional \u201cHey Siri\u201d or just \u201cSiri\u201d (at least in Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US). You might appreciate being able to stop saying \u201cHey\u201d every time, or you might find that using just \u201cSiri\u201d generates incorrect activations. (And if someone in your family\u2019s name sounds like Siri, you may want to turn the feature off entirely!) There are four places to look:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>iOS 17 and iPadOS 17:<\/b> Settings &gt; Siri &amp; Search &gt; Listen For<\/li>\n<li><b>macOS 14 Sonoma:<\/b> System Settings &gt; Siri &amp; Spotlight &gt; Listen For<\/li>\n<li><b>watchOS 10:<\/b> Watch app &gt; My Watch &gt; Siri &gt; Listen For<\/li>\n<li><b>HomePod Software 17:<\/b> Home app &gt; long-press HomePod &gt; Accessory Settings &gt; Listen For \u201cSiri\u201d or \u201cHey Siri\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10096\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/the-hey-part-of-hey-siri-is-now-optional-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image based on an original by Apple)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Siri, particularly on a HomePod, you\u2019re probably accustomed to saying \u201cHey Siri\u201d as the trigger phrase before your requests. In Apple\u2019s new operating systems for 2023, you can now choose to invoke Siri using the traditional \u201cHey Siri\u201d or just \u201cSiri\u201d (at least in Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US). You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,112,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8778,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions\/8778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}