But you can now use it to make reservations at a restaurant (ask it to find a burger joint for six at a specific time, and presto, it will), launch iOS apps, scan movie reviews and showtimes, dictate Facebook or Twitter updates, even grab sports metrics, say scores from a football or hockey game or - and this sounds very cool - one player’s stats stacked against another’s, all by simply asking your iPhone (or, for the first time, the new iPad) to.Īnd, further reinforcing the assumption that Apple would rather facilitate social networking - and in this case, one very specific social networking tool - than preempt it, the company’s folded Facebook into iOS 6.

Apple’s not specifying how, precisely, it’s improved Siri’s general accuracy, or even if it has (we can only assume).

Forget flyover: Apple’s seamless zooming and native turn-by-turn guidance features should make iOS Maps the navigation app to beat.Ĭhecking in on Siri, the sometimes-accurate, sometimes-not natural language voice recognition app has been refined in iOS 6 as expected. The other Maps feature which, if it works as well as Apple claims, should be a boon to users (and a malediction to third-part GPS app makers - shades of Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with Windows back in the day?) is Apple’s new turn-by-turn spoken directions, which includes a 3D view and real-time traffic updates. ( MORE: Apple’s iPhone 5: A Thinner, Lighter, Taller 4G Phone)

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