Help Siri Help You Series - Getting AboutIn the second of this series of setting up your Apple devices to work well with Siri, we are going to look at how the Assistant can help you get about.Using Apple’s Maps app is key to this and also ensuring that regularly visited places are also included in your Contacts app.1. The first thing to do is to ensure that yourin the Maps app and in Contacts. If you do not have a work address, then you may want to add another significant address you visit often, or leave this blank.It enables Siri to know easily important locations. You will be able to say: ‘Show me directions to Home’. Siri knows where ‘Home’ is an so means you do not have to specify your home address every time. The same goes for work or another significant address.2. In your Contacts app,. Maybe a park or recreational location. Maybe a cinema or bar that you like to visit. In doing this, when you ask Siri: ‘Give me directions to the Cinema’, it should know which one you mean.It is important to remember that we do not speak the way computers might understand us. Saying ‘Show me directions to the Park’ is much more natural than saying: ‘Take me to the park that is located at the corner of A and B streets’.3. In your Contacts app make sure thatare listed. Then when you want to visit these kinds of locations just say to Siri: ‘Give me directions to the Supermarket’ and the Assistant will know which one you mean.: It makes locating often visited locations easier.4.. With Siri you can specify how you want the Assistant to show you how to get to a location. So you might say: ‘Show me walking directions to the Park’. Siri will oblige. Likewise with: ‘Give me public transport directions to work’ and your bus and train options will be shown.You can also say; ‘Show me driving directions to Home’ and that route will be shown to you.Siri has access to a lot of information in the background such as road issues and public transport options. Why not harness that for your benefit?Brian10th February 2020