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How to Open Apps with Siri?

Are you fortunately enough to hold an iPhone 4S in hand? Once you become one of the giant iPhone 4S user group, you may find that Siri is not able to run applications directly. Actually, with a little skill, Siri can help you open some applications. The below tips are just given out to present you how to use the voice control to open applications.

Shortcut of How to Open Apps with Siri

Actually, the concept of the tips of using Siri open apps is to open a specific type of URL in Safari to launch the pointed application. In other words, when you point and click on a particular link in Safari, it will start to set the application that preset by the developers. Fortunately, the sevelopers have found lots of URL types which can start some hidden features in iOS.

You can use different types of URL to star the applications like Twitter, Facebook, App Store, ets. For example:

1. You can open App Store application by using "itms-apps: / /";
2. Open the map application with the URL "maps: / /" ;
3. Want to open Message application's writing interface? Then you can use "sms: / /" to get it realized.
4. "music: / /" is used to open the music application and display the "Now Playing" songs in the opened music app.
5. You can use "youtube: / /" to open the Youtube Application.
6. To open the iBooks application, you can just use "itms-books: / /" to enjoy your eBooks.

You can also use more commands to control your applications, such as you can directly run Twitter and open the writing interface by entering "twitter://post?message" in Safari. This is all infrastructures, now we are back to Siri.

Although Apple does not directly provide such direct functions like "Siri, run the Angry Bird" , there is an indirect method to run the app. That is the contact. You can create a contact, and then add the URL type mentioned earlier to the contact page projects. After that, you are able to let Siri call this contact. And then the application will open naturally.

Here we'd like to take Facebook as example. First let's create a contact called Facebook. Then let's scroll to the URL section to add some commonly used URL types into it as well as the picture showed on the right. At last, you have to save the contact.

What are the URL types refer to?

1. "fb: / / profile" is used to open Facebook and go to the user's page;
2. "fb: / / friends" is rightly used to open the Facebook and then turn to the Buddy List;
3. "fb: / / notifications" allows you to enter the reminder list on Facebook;
4. "fb: / / feed" will show you whether there is anything new in Facebook;
5. "fb: / / events" help you open the Facebook and turn to activities page;
6. "fb: / / requests" just displays you all the requests on your Facebook;
7. "fb: / / notes" is used to open the application and then go to the blog page;
8. "fb: / / albums" will help you enter the album list.

Now, all set. Once you said "Facebook" to Siri, it will open Facebook this contact, Then you just need then click the specific URL on it to enter your wanted page.

That's all about how to open apps with Siri. By the way, if you want to open video files on your iOS devices for entertainment, then you may need turn for help to Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate for Mac. This software is coming up powerful functions and easy operations that you can convert your wanted media files to your device on Mac without a hitch.

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