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Siri will be getting several new features and enhancements when iOS 8 is released later this year among them are new dictation languages voice activation and song recognition but even now Syria is capable of doing more than you realize I'm dan Graziano and I'm going to share with you some of Ceres lesser known features everyone knows that pressing the home button will activate Siri but did you know that you can actually hold the home button to ensure that Siri keeps listening this will prevent the voice assistant from cutting you off mid question you probably know that after you ask Siri a question you can scroll from top to bottom to see the previous answer but did you know that you can see these recent exchanges even after you closed her STR a question such as what is the temperature close Syria by tapping the home button and open her again but instead of asking a new question tap the lower section of Siri screen next to the question mark icon and swipe down but what happens if you made a mistake when accent Siri a question sure you can repeat and rephrase the question or you can edit it swipe up well inside of Syria - you see your question tap on the phrase tap to edit and retype your question or speak it by using the microphone icon on your keyboard while you can yet use Siri to control third-party apps you can use the voice assistant to open any app speak the name of the app you wish to open and Siri will comply feeling a little lazy you can use Syria to post a status or a new tweet to Facebook or Twitter use the command post on Facebook or post on Twitter and Siri will ask you what you would like to post you can also send an email or a text message to a contact in your phone by saying text or email Steve and have Siri read your incoming emails and messages to you to hear all of your emails in your inbox at one time tell Siri to read all my email to hear the most recent email by date and time simply tell Siri to read my latest email the same commands can be used for your text messages as well in addition to Siri reading the names and numbers of all your miss phone calls you can take it one step further having the voices system playback your voicemails simply say play my voicemail and Siri put your phone on speaker and automatically reads your latest voicemail want to be able to tell Siri to text your wife or send an email to your mom you can set Syria to recognize someone who is in your phone open the voice assistant and tell her that veronika is my girlfriend or Anne Marie as my mom if you're frustrated because Siri mispronounces your name or the name of one of your contacts you can teach her the proper way to say it for example tell Siri that's not how you pronounce graziano Sarah will then ask you how to pronounce it simply say the name and Sierra will give you a list of pronunciations pick the right or closest one and Syria will correct how she says the name from now on and finally you can view a list of commands serious capable of understanding by saying what can I ask Siri or by tapping the question mark icon in the lower left corner and there you have it 11 of series lesser known features that you can perform on your iPhone or iPad right now for more how-to like this one be sure to check out how to Tina calm you can also reach out to me on Twitter with any questions or comments I'm dead rossion for CNET thanks for watching