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A woman named Siri has sent an email to Apple CEO Tim Cook, asking for a laptop as a gift for her 30th birthday. She believes she deserved the laptop after enduring ‘years of jokes’ about her name.

Siri works with your products on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, HomePod, AirPods, and in CarPlay, so people can use it almost everywhere. SiriKit and Shortcuts aren't supported on Mac. When you make your app's tasks available through Siri, you have several opportunities to customize the user experience. Lastly, Siri’s preference pane makes it a cinch to remove its icon from the menu bar. Apps: Siri, hail me an Uber. Like on iOS 10, Siri in macOS Sierra supports integration with third-party applications, thanks to Apple’s newly released APIs. You could, for instance, hail an Uber or a Lyft right from Siri on your Mac. Mar 23, 2021 Click the Siri icon in the menu bar, Dock, or Touch Bar. If Siri is already open, click the Siri icon. Press and hold the Command (⌘) key and Space bar until Siri responds. Speak “Hey Siri.”. “Hey, Siri” won’t respond when the lid to your MacBook is closed.

Siri Hafso always thought her lovely name was very unique. However, it all changed when in 2011 the California-based company Apple integrated into their iPhone 4s the first virtual assistant with a voice, and named it Siri.

Since then, the name Siri became one of the most common names around the world, and for that she feels Apple owes her something in return as consolation. She wrote an email to Tim Cook, in the hopes he would accommodate her request of being given a laptop for free.

Shared on TikTok, the message Siri wrote was, “Hello Tim, I’ll get right to it – I have a favor to ask. You see my name is Siri. Yes, Siri. And up until 2011, I was the kid who could never find their name on a keychain at the souvenir shop. I was the teen who knew when the nurses were about to call me because they would look at the clipboard in confusion not knowing how to pronounce my name. I was the young adult who was always told ‘you’re name is so beautiful and unique!’ I think you can see where this is going.”

The text on the video says, “I wrote an email to the CEO of Apple asking for a computer because I feel like they owe me after enduring years of Siri jokes. I turn 30 next month and I don’t have one, this is my only wish, please help me get in touch TikTok.”

The video has indeed gone viral, racking up over 17,000 likes and many funny comments.

One TikTok user commented, “Honestly you deserve it. Imagine hearing people yell your name and then barking orders at you.”

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Another user who also happened to share her plight wrote, “As an Alexa I totally feel your pain. ‘Alexa turn on the lights’, ‘Alexa what’s the weather ‘, it never ends.”

Now, whenever Hafso meets someone for the first time and they learn her name, all she ever hears is “Siri? Like the iPhone? or “Did your parents name you after the iPhone”, despite the fact that Siri turns 30 years old in June.

Siri reveals her MacBook “took its final breath” in 2014, and that even the Genius at her Apple Store appointment asked for her ID because they did not believe she has the exact same name as the tech giant’s voice-activated personal assistant.

Hafso also reveals that she lost her acting job due to COVID-19. She was supposed to perform in a show that was one night away from opening night.

She humbly requests Tim Cook for any MacBook that Apple could spare, even one missing a key, sitting on a shelf in storage, or one that “is refurbished after having one too many coffees spilled on its keyboard”.

Check out Siri Hafso’s full email here.

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  • Calls and Texts

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  • Knowledge on the Go

  • More Powerful Tasks

Calls and Texts

Siri lets you stay connected without lifting a finger.

Siri can make calls or send texts for you whether you are driving, have your hands full, or are simply on the go.1 It can even announce your messages on your AirPods.2 It also offers proactive suggestions — like texting someone that you’re running late for a meeting — so you can stay in touch effortlessly.3

Siri can announce your incoming messages and calls on your AirPods.

Start a FaceTime or Group FaceTime call with Siri, just by asking.

Everyday Tasks

Siri is a faster, easier way to do all kinds of useful things.

Set alarms, timers, and reminders. Get directions. Preview your calendar. Siri can do it all without your ever having to pick up a device. Based on your routine, Siri can even anticipate what you might need to help you breeze through your day. And with Siri Shortcuts, you have an even faster way to access apps.

See apps that support Siri Shortcuts

Siri lets you know when to leave based on traffic.

“Remind me to pick up the dry cleaning when I leave work”

Create shortcuts from your favorite apps for the tasks you do all the time.

Music

Siri can find the song you want to hear. Just ask.

Apple Music and Siri work together beautifully.4 Which means you can ask Siri to find a new song you’ll like. Put on a favorite album. Or even answer questions about bands you love. Siri can also suggest your favorite playlist when you arrive at the gym or start your drive home. Just tap to play.

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Siri recognizes individual voices for a more personalized music experience on HomePod.

Siri suggests the playlists you want. Right when you want them.

Home

Siri is a smart way to
run your smart home.

Now you can control your smart appliances, check their status, or even do a bunch of things at once — using just your voice. In the Home app, for example, you can create a scene named “I’m home” that opens the garage, unlocks the front door, and turns on the lights.

Learn more about the Home app

Siri suggests scenes based on your routine. Tap to turn the lights off and the heat down.

Siri learns and recognizes family members’ voices for personalized responses related to Messages, Calendar, and more.

Knowledge
on the Go

Siri has answers to all kinds of questions.

Quickly check facts, do calculations, or translate a phrase into another language. It’s as simple as asking. Even when you don’t ask, Siri works behind the scenes like a personal assistant. A great example is the Siri watch face, which serves up events, news, suggestions, and more right when you need them. And the Siri voice uses advanced neural text‑to‑speech technology to sound incredibly natural, particularly when speaking longer phrases, like when reading the news or answering knowledge questions.

Stay on top of stocks, scores, your schedule, your Activity rings, and more with the Siri watch face.

Neural text-to-speech technology helps Siri sound natural, especially for longer phrases.

Siri gets you answers even before you finish searching in Safari.

More Powerful Tasks

Siri can search, send, and book faster than you can.

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It’s amazing how quickly Siri can find photos of your kids, locate your parked car, get you a ride, or unearth what you’re looking for from massive numbers of files. And the capabilities of Siri are optimized for each device, so you get the right kind of help, anywhere you are.

“Open the presentation I was working on yesterday”

When Siri recognizes events in apps like Mail or Messages, it suggests adding them to your calendar.

Shortcuts can do multiple things across multiple apps.

Siri For Macbook Pro

Built into iOS and iPadOS, the Shortcuts app gives you a library of
useful shortcuts to choose from, like
“Heading home.” Just say the words and Siri will text your ETA, start a playlist, and find the fastest route home — all at once. You can also create your own shortcuts to streamline tasks you do all the time.

Siri For MacDownload the Shortcuts app

Siri is always learning how to be even more helpful.

Machine learning is constantly making Siri smarter. And you can personalize Siri to make it even more useful. Choose to have Siri speak one of 21 different languages. Teach Siri who your family members are. And spell out unusual words so Siri can recognize them
in the future.

Siri keeps your information private and secure.

Siri is designed to do as much learning as possible offline, right on your device. Searches and requests are not associated with your identity — so your personal information isn’t gathered to sell to
advertisers or other organizations. And end‑to‑end encryption ensures that data synced between your devices can’t be accessed, even by Apple.

Learn more about Privacy

You can activate Siri hands-free just by saying “Hey Siri.”Or simply press a button. Whatever you need, Siri is there to help. On every Apple device.

See how to use Siri on your Apple devices

SiriKit lets Siri work with all your favorite apps.

SiriKit and Siri Shortcuts enable developers to build Siri capabilities into their iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS apps. So more of the things you already love to do on your devices can be done simply by asking Siri.

Learn more about SiriKit