5 Tips for using iPhone 4S Siri without disturbing people around
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How to use Siri with less noice


iPhone 4S intelligent voice assistant Siri can give you the response when you ask to:
Wake Me Up, Find Coffee, Find the the way To somewhere, Play a random song, Send A Text, Weather prediction, Remind Me To Do This Every Day, Remind Me When I Come Back Here, Settle Our Argument, Send a Tweet, etc.

Indeed, Siri does help iPhone 4S users a lot in the daily life. However, users can also easily annoy people around them by talking to Siri. The New York Times recently highlighted a slew of examples of people engaging in annoying behavior using the 4S. But fear not. You can enjoy Siri and practice good etiquette at the same time. Here are five tips of using iPhone 4S without annoying people nearby.

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1. Hold the phone up to your ear. If there is a lot of noise or you don't want to disturb people around you, you can just hold the handset up your ear when you wanna ask Siri for something. In an addition, you don't need to use the speaker to talk to Siri.

2. Use the standard ten-foot rule. As the specification says, don't talk to Siri if you're within ten feet of strangers in a quieter locale such as a restaurant or standing in line or in the train where someone is asleep. Obviously, if you're in Grand Central Station nobody's going to care what you’re doing.

3. Be mindful of your audience when playing around with Siri. Since Siri has enough answers to silly questions to delight you for a break. Like you ask her: "How much wood a wood chuck could chuck?", and she will respond, "42 cords of wood, to be exact. Everyone knows that." Such answers will make you laugh aloud. Just don't play around like this while alone in your cube at work to the distraction of co-workers.

4. When in public, tap it if you can. If there's a chance your conversation with your iPhone is going to perturb someone, let your fingers do the walking instead. The voice assistant feature is optional and you can do everything you need without actually using it. This tip depends on where you are staying in, I just think if you are in America when you are in a street, you can talk to Siri freely. However, if you are in Japan, I'm afraid you have to turn off your Siri.

5. Don't be a show-off. Even Bluetooth headset users still get pegged for trying to be lofty when communicating hands free in a shopping aisle, when they could use their phone in the usual way like everybody else. But, I think most iPhone 4S users get it with the purpose of showing off, particularly, in China, though iPhone 4S haven't been sold officially on China mainland, the users got 4S by all means for what? Show OFF. So these 5 tips just tips not rules.