{"id":165770,"date":"2019-10-03T04:28:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T20:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=257062"},"modified":"2019-10-03T04:28:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T20:28:36","slug":"apple-to-expand-siri-integration-with-outside-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/03\/apple-to-expand-siri-integration-with-outside-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple to expand Siri integration with outside apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tApple will soon allow its Siri assistant to open third-party messaging and calling apps by default, Bloomberg reported, loosening restrictions on the use of outside services as regulators probe its competitive practices.<\/p>\n<p>Siri currently automatically opens Apple services when a user asks to send a message or make a call. However, Bloomberg reported a forthcoming software update will allow Siri to learn a user\u2019s preferences and open the service most used for contacting a specific person.<\/p>\n<p>So, for instance, rather than opening iMessage by default, Siri might open WhatsApp for one contact and Skype for another.<\/p>\n<p>Messaging apps will be the first to receive the new functionality, with voice calling apps to follow. Third-party developers will need to update their offerings to enable the new feature, the report noted.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as Apple faces investigations into its competitive practices from the European Commission [1] and US Federal Trade Commission,\u00a0Department of Justice [2]\u00a0and\u00a0state legal officials [3].<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the company quietly modified [4] the search algorithm in its App Store after analysis showed its own services tended to dominate results for common queries.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/eu-advances-spotify-complaint-over-apple\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/doj-probes-big-tech-competition\/<br \/>\n[3] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/states-up-stakes-with-big-tech-review\/<br \/>\n[4] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/apps-home-banner\/apple-moves-to-avert-app-search-row\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple will soon allow its Siri assistant to open third-party messaging and calling apps by &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/apple-to-expand-siri-integration-with-outside-apps\/\">Apple to expand Siri integration with outside apps<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/03\/apple-to-expand-siri-integration-with-outside-apps\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2048,2,2047,3867,453,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,11,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-H7I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166520,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165770\/revisions\/166520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}