In this episode, Thomas Domville delves into the seamless sharing of content from your iPhone screen via iMessage, thanks to Siri’s enhanced capabilities. Apple has equipped Siri with on-device processing, offline support, and advanced contextual awareness, which facilitates a smooth “Share This” feature.
Here’s the process:
When you’re in any supported application, such as Safari, Apple Music, or Photos, you can initiate sharing by saying, “Hey Siri, share this with [contact name].” Siri will grasp the context and ask for confirmation to share the particular content. Afterward, you have the option to append a personalized message before sending it off.
Should the content be unsharable directly, like a weather forecast, Siri cleverly captures a screenshot to share instead.
transcription:
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Hello and welcome.
My name is Thomas Domville also known as AnonyMouseSo I am in a situation where I do a lot of messaging throughout the day So you probably are in a similar boat So you probably have text message to your friends or family and co-workers and whatnot And if you are like myself, I send a lot of links to various things that could be photos web Weather things like that, right and but the problem I have with that is that it's pretty tedious And I'll show you what I mean in a moment But the point is I have a feature or a advice for those that do this often Something that might streamline your texting with a link more efficiently and faster So let me show you what I'm talking about.
So let's just say I let's go to my Safari app here, for example Safari double tap to open.
So I'm gonna do that.
So let's just say I have something in Safari that I want to share with someone Safari we'll go to the top here so I can show you what I'm sharing here Skip to content in page link critically endangered attacks born at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge So this is a great article.
I wanted to send it to a friend of mine And there's a Disney News, of course, and this talks about a new baby that was born at the Animal Kingdom Lodge Anyway, the point is say I want to share this article with my friends So typically what I have to do is I have to go to the bottom right to find my tabs first toolbar tabs button double tap and hold for more tab options Now I have to swipe to the left until I find the share button show bookmarks button share button Now I have to double tap on that critically endangered attacks critically endangered attacks born at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge WDW news today.
Now I have to swipe to the right until I get some messages WDWNT.com options button close button airdrop button messages button double tap that New message and now I'm gonna swipe to right until I find the to edit box cancel button to text field is editing word mode insertion point at start double tap that Insertion point at end and now I've got to put in the first couple initials that the person I want to send it to So I created this just for this podcast.
I'm going to send it to Mickey Mouse I'm gonna find the letter M and no M M now gonna go back to the top here new message And now can I swipe to the right until I get the results for the contact?
cancel button to text field add contact button Results Mickey Mouse one eight.
So here's Mickey Mouse and then I double tap that and then finally voila I got that link sent to Mickey Mouse via message.
Well, what if I told you there's a much quicker way of doing this So let me show you how to do this and it's as simple as using Siri Yeah, it's one of those forgotten things I just keep forgetting about and I thought I may probably nudge you to remind you that you can use Siri too to send links or Something that you want to share with your friends, but I have to do all these steps.
So let me cancel out of here new message cancel button Skip to content in page link baby adax Okay, so now I'm back to the web page, right?
so you have a couple ways to do that so you can initiate the wake word or Siri to wake up and Initiate these following commands and that is command is share this with my contact So in other words my contact replace that with somebody in particular you want So in this case share this with Mickey Mouse and then voila it will do the same exact same but in a much quicker manner So let me show you that I'm gonna hold down the side button to initiate Siri this time Share this with Mickey Mouse Send this web link to Mickey.
Yes It's sent And of course, I link that to my phone number So you heard my text message come through so you've heard the meet me and that tells me I have a text message Just to show you that it was sent correctly.
So keep that in mind So there's a couple things I want to mention to you.
What else can I use this with really?
It's going to depends mostly on the app that you're using.
For example, Safari is a good one.
It works with that But the big one that you probably going to be using one times not like myself our photos So if you go into photos choose the photo that you want Make sure the photos up and then say share this with Mickey Mouse and that will share the photo as well Another nice good one to think about is if you have Apple music same thing So if you have a song that's playing you really like this and you think somebody would like that go to the mini player Make sure that song is playing and then pause it and then you can see that initial keyword to share that with your friend Another nice cool one If you have a podcast you like and if you use an Apple podcast open up the podcast of choice make sure the podcast is open and then share that with your friend as well and Believe it or not.
This is kind of a weird thing weather tube.
So the native weather app So if you like to send somebody what your current weather or what's coming up?
So for example, I use this the other day with my wife with her upcoming trip to Walt Disney World So I thought well, I got to show her this weather for Walt Disney World.
It's crazy Another one I do want to show you in person I think this is going to help a lot of people and that is Maps.
Why would I want to do that?
Well, this is a great way to share your location quickly with this process or this technique So if I wanted to initiate Siri and tell her to open maps, for example, so you don't have to search for it open maps Maps my location shows more info.
First thing you should hear is in my location.
Go ahead and double tap that my location Share but and it gives you the share button.
Well instead of tapping on the share button.
Guess what I can initiate this I can say and I'll initiate Siri here Share this with Mickey Mouse Send us web link to Mickey.
Yes It's sent And once again, I get my text meet me, which is the cool part about this This is the quickest way I can show you how to share your current location So if you're stuck some more or you're waiting for a ride and they need your location this saves a lot of time because one you don't have to be searching for your maps by Swiping swiping swiping until you find a maps You can just simply say open maps go to my current location and share your location by law and that's simple It's easy and peasy with Siri now with this work other with other apps Such as like leery sure does certain apps and only certain apps I want to make that very clear some apps allow you to do this some apps you can't so for example in leery or Good read if you're a book reader, you have a book in particularly like to share and whatnot It's one of those you have to experiment to see if this is will work with that Typically what I found is anything that do in web scraping or kind of a web base Or in app or browser kind of a thing and within your third-party apps It seems to work really well with this with it, but it's one of these experiment and it does come in handy Why did I bid now what happened if it doesn't like support that feature?
Well, it will still send a link but it's gonna be something different.
So let me show you an example here Let's go to an app that I have installed Disney World double tap to open Imagine that Disney World, right?
Yep.
For those that know me.
I love our Disney World everything Well, did you want any who you double tap this open up Walt Disney World, for example?
Disney World Remy's Ratatouille adventure Epcot 85 minutes stand by wait now 66 of 68 button.
This is great place So I have it right here when I have rating time and sometimes I like to share those with my friend and my wife Just to show what the current waiting time for a certain park is.
Yep.
It's a great app to show you which park is Having a busy day and whatnot.
But the point is is I was binging what happens if I shared this well, take a listen So I'm going to do the same thing Share this with Mickey Mouse.
I can only send screenshots from here.
Send this photo to Mickey.
Yes It's sent So as you can hear for yourself in that it can't send a link But it could send a screenshot of what you're looking at.
Well, I guess it's a second best option Especially for somebody that's sighted like my wife and etc that can see that now taking mine and granted is that it's not gonna Cover everything in the screen.
So what you look at or what you see is what's gonna be screenshot but however every so often we have to screenshot anyway to send to a Friend or whatever not see what you're looking at, right?
Well, this is a great way to do screenshot and send it to your friend so I wanted to introduce you a easier and streamlined and more efficient fast way of being able to share a link a photo weather and all sorts of different things and showed you an example how to do in other Circumstance a screenshot that you can message to your family co-workers and friends.
Alright, well that's gonna do for today My name is Thomas Domville also known as AnonyMouseMouse until next time.
Bye Bye.