3 ways to make Siri smarter on your iPhone

Sure, Siri sounds a bit less like a robot in iOS 11, but Apple's digital assistant still fails to understand me and mispronounces names.

Learn four easy ways to improve Siri's smarts

1. Train Siri to hear you better

If you have the "Hey Siri" feature enabled and Siri frequently fails to spring to life when you utter the magic words, then it's time to start over and retrain Siri. Go to Settings > Siri & Search and toggle the switch off and back on again for Listen for "Hey Siri." You'll go through the setup process again of training Siri to recognize your voice.

1. Correct Siri when she's wrong

Siri makes her best guess at pronouncing names but, like teachers on the first day of school and John Travolta at awards shows, doesn't always get it right. You can, however, teach Siri how to correctly pronounce names in your Contacts.

3.Tell Siri where you live and work

My favorite kind of reminders are location-based reminders. "Remind me to change over the laundry when I get home" or "Remind me to buy milk when I leave work" or "Remind me to drop off that form when I get to school."