SIRI HAS SOME NEW SHORTCUTS WITH APPLE'S LATEST SOFTWARE UPDATE

With the latest iOS 12 update, Apple is making sure that Siri will make all the fans love her even more, with new shortcuts and powerful new features.

Siri is a lot more powerful in both iOS 12 and watchOS 5 and features a new app called Shortcuts which is now available to download for iOS 12 users. The iOS update allows iPhone and Apple Watch users to use Siri to step through multistep routines. Shortcuts replace the previous Workflow app that Apple acquired last year, and is designed to allow you to create custom commands in Siri that launch apps or combine a number of actions in a similar way to IFTTT.

You can do things like tell that Siri you are "watching a movie" and the digital assistant will switch your phone to do not disturb. A number of app developers are also launching their own custom Siri shortcuts with iOS 12, which will help the assistant display more information when you create a custom phrase. Citymapper is one of the first big apps with Siri shortcuts support, allowing you to create a shortcut to ask "when's my next train?" and get relevant updates and even platform information.

You can download Siri Shortcuts from the App Store immediately, and there's a whole gallery of templates to get you started building routines and shortcuts. You can learn more about iOS 12 by watching the video below.