My friend Anastasia uses a bluetooth keyboard on her iPad.
Earlier, the escape key, that works as a home button, used to act like a siri key when being held down.
Now, this is no longer working.
I know there is a key because I accidentally triggered it and I didn’t know what key it was.
Any help would be appreciated and really awesome.
By venova, 18 May, 2018
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Checking in. any answers?
From the date on this post, it appears the Escape key shortcut to launch SIRI has been broke for four years. Does anyone have an update on this issue? Is there a new keyboard shortcut to launch SIRI? Thanks.
It does exist. Can’t figure out how to activate it
You’re absolutely right. There is a way to do it. I just recently did it on my iPad Pro. But I can’t figure out which key combination made it work. To be completely honest, you might be better off asking Apple directly than the people on this website as they tend to be critical and mean and toxic.
Try this
Here's a helpful article:
https://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/09/20/siri-keyboard-shortcut-mac/
Here's another:
https://support.apple.com/en-by/guide/mac-help/mchl6b029310/mac
Me? What I did was go to system preferences>siri and entered a custom shortcut. When I use that custom command, it takes me into the same place that you can go to by pressing vo-m twice and then arrowing to siri, pressing vo-space, and arrowing and interacting until you get to the edit box where you can type your siri question or command. The shortcut is good because it takes you right there without all those keystrokes.
Joy!
Bruce
This is an iOS/iPad issue
Thanks, Bruce Harrell. To be clear, there is no issue on the Mac desktop - just hold Option+Space.
This thread is in the iOS and iPad OS forum. It was formerly possible to invoke SIRI by holding down the Escape key, but that feature inexplicably disappeared, and now the only way to invoke SIRI is to hold the sleep/wake switch, or home button if you have one. But apparently there is no equivalent keyboard shortcut.
So . . .
Sorry I missed it, Paul, but then why not just use Hey SIRI? I use it all the time on my iPhone 10s.