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Yes, in the car via CarPlay. It makes for safer driving. I just plug my phone in and put it away so I can’t reach it to text and drive. I then ask it to text, look up directions or play whatever song I want.

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This would be great if Siri ever reliably worked for me. It works just often enough that I keep trying to use it before giving up in frustration for the umpteenth time. I recently retrofitted CarPlay to my Mazda and it's better than Mazda's voice recognition, but that's a very low bar.

Here's an example of something that seems obviously should work: I'm driving to pick someone up. Apple maps is navigating. "Hey siri, text <person I'm picking up> my ETA."

Yeah, that doesn't work. The only thing I reliable get out of Siri is setting a timer and opening the camera.

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