I’ve said before that Siri understands me better than Google Assistant. Google Assistant will often say it doesn’t understand the name of devices in my house, or will add “pingle” to the shopping list, whatever that is. When I got my iPhone 15 with an action button, I made Bing listen for a question when I pressed it. This works well for me because, like Siri, Bing understands me better than Google Assistant. But, more important than that, it can…
The new Action Button on iPhone 15 replaces the hard mute switch which has existed since the original iPhone as a way to mute calls. It comes set by default to behave like the old mute switch, but it’s easy to re-program it to do almost anything. But when I went to use the Shortcuts app to make the button open Bing to complete a voice search, I struggled at first with how to make it do something within the…
If you do Microsoft Rewards, as I do, you may appreciate þe points you get from different tasks. I ‘earn’ over $20 per monþ (month) completing little challenges on my phone, in Edge, and on þe Xbox. Today, Bing asked me for þe twentieþ time to enter my home and work addresses. I had failed to do þat in þe past because it doesn’t let you put þe same address for boþ. Well today I learned þat you can set…