Siri has secret commands for your iPhone (and this is ’em)

Siri is everyone’s friend and really does everything for you. ‘Everything’ has become even more, because the smart voice assistant on your iPhone has gained another handy command. OMT editor Sabine tells you all about it.

Making a phone call or showing the way: Siri takes care of it for you. The voice assistant Fortunately, Apple also receives a useful update every now and then. Not only to fix any bugs, but also to add new commands. Now that iOS 16 is upon us, Siri can serve you even better on your iPhone.

New Siri command on your iPhone

From now on it is possible to restart your iPhone via Siri. That is a nice step, because iOS also sometimes suffers from stuck apps or menus. Restarting your device is also often the solution for slow apps and other problems.

Normally you use the buttons to turn your iPhone off and on again, but with the recent Siri update that is a thing of the past. Are there problems with an app or is there another reason to restart your phone? Enable the help of good old Siri in!

This is how you use the command

All you need to do to restart your iPhone with Siri is say “Hey Siri” to invoke the voice assistant, followed by “restart iPhone.” Then say “Yes” when Siri asks if you’re sure.

Haven’t turned on “Hey Siri” yet? You do this as follows. Go to your iPhone’s settings and navigate to Siri and search. Make sure that Listen to “Hey Siri” is enabled. Also useful to Allow Siri on lock so that you can easily turn on the help of the voice assistant.