Siri has always been one step behind others Attendees and even with the introduction of iOS 12. The few improvements presented during WWDC do not make it improve significantly. However, the new features introduced mean a slight change that will improve the user experience.
I am talking about the Siri shortcuts o Siri Shortcuts, small personalized actions with a voice command that can be carried out just by talking to the virtual assistant. It is an option for you third-party apps like Spotify can be controlled by our voice, since until now we were not capable.
Expanding to third-party apps: Siri Shortcuts
Siri has always been capped versus third-party applications. That is, we were not able to play a song on Spotify talking to the virtual assistant. It was something that many users frustrated us but that Apple wanted to keep so that users could try to use native applications, but why else was the App Store? Over time it has been opening to other applications such as Whatsapp, with which we can send a message just by talking to Siri.
The Siri shortcuts available in iOS 12 is an interesting novelty that can give a lot of play, not only to Apple but to the rest of the developers. During the presentation of the new operating system we were shown some examples that made us think that this function was related to the previous purchase of Workflow by the big apple.
Siri is now able to associate your daily routines with third-party apps to suggest shortcuts just when you need them. For example, if you usually go for a coffee on the way to work, Siri keeps the song and from the lock screen suggests that you go ordering the coffee in the corresponding app to save time. You can also activate shortcuts with your voice or create one for fire measured with the new Shortcuts app.
By associating phrases or words created by us with a certain function we can, among other things, if Spotify wants, control the reproduction of audiovisual content. For example, Time capsule playback of this playlist would begin. Of course, for the rest of the controls such as passing the song or raising or lowering the volume, we will have to do it through the physical controls of the terminal, the application itself or the Control Center.
