Like you currently do to use Voice Control on the iPhone, Siri can be activated with a long-held press of the home button. Then all you have to do is speak to your handset. Voice recognition software ...

Apple in iOS 18 added a Vocal Shortcuts accessibility feature, and now that iOS 18 is available in a beta capacity, users have figured out that this option can be used to give Siri a new wake word.

The digital landscape has transformed dramatically since Apple introduced Siri in 2010, followed closely by the 2011 debut of Google Voice Search and the 2014 introduction of Amazon’s Alexa. More than ...