Here’s another hint that Siri is coming to the Mac

Siri WWDC 2016 Finder response

Siri is rumored to be coming to the Mac and third-party apps with an official Siri software development kit (SDK). In addition to teasing a dark mode in iOS 10, Siri seems to beĀ also trolling Apple fans worldwide with an unusual reference to OS X Finder when asked to ā€œopen settings in the window.ā€

There are no windows in iOS, of course, so one would expect Siri to respond with an ā€œI don’t understandā€ whereas she in fact says that ā€œIt doesn’t look like you have an app named ‘Finder’ā€, as first spotted by Brian Roemmele.

You can try it out yourself.

Simply press and hold the Home button on your iOS device to invoke Siri, and then say, ā€œSiri, show settings in the windowā€. Your question must begin with ā€œSiriā€ or the query won’t yield a response saying, ā€œIt doesn’t look like you have an app named ‘Finder’ā€ or ā€œI need Finder to do thatā€.

For non-Mac owners, Finder is the OS X file management application.

The response suggests that Siri’s backend had been updated with hooks for Mac appsĀ aheadĀ of today’s keynote. ā€œWhen I asked a similar question a few weeks ago Siri reported that she couldn’t help me with that,ā€ wrote Roemmele.

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As mentioned, asking Siri to ā€œTurn on dark modeā€ on an iOS device produces a response saying, ā€œSorry, but I’m not able to change that setting,ā€ indicating she soon might be able to, provided the rumors of dark mode coming to iOS 10 areĀ true.

WWDC 2016 is kicking off with a keynote today at 10am Pacific.

Source: Brian Roemmele