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Control your Apple devices and smart home accessories with Siri on iPhone

Use Siri to control your iPhone and other Apple devices with just your voice—like opening apps, adjusting settings, and locating your other Apple devices or items with AirTags. You can also control smart home accessories that you set up in the Home app.

Control your iPhone

Siri: On your iPhone, activate Siri, then see the ideas below for requests you can make.

Open apps and settings

  • “Open Camera”

  • “Open Accessibility settings”

  • “Open Calculator”

Adjust settings

  • “Siri, turn on the flashlight”

  • “Turn up the volume”

  • “Turn on the Work Focus”

Adjust accessibility settings

  • “Siri, hang up”

  • “Speak screen”

  • “Turn on Voice Control”

  • “Turn on VoiceOver”

  • “Turn on AssistiveTouch”

  • “Turn on Guided Access”

Control your home

Ask Siri to turn on lights, adjust the thermostat, and control the products that you use in your home—even when you’re not there.

To get started, find accessories that work with Apple Home. For information on how to set up smart home accessories with your iPhone or iPad, see the Apple Support article Add a smart home accessory to the Home app.

Siri: On your iPhone, activate Siri, then see the ideas below for requests you can make.

Turn accessories on and off

  • “Turn on the lights”

  • “Turn on the security system”

Adjust an accessory

  • “Set the temperature to 68 degrees”

  • “Turn down the kitchen lights”

  • “Set my reading scene”

Control a room or zone

If you organize your accessories by room or zone, you can control areas of your house with a single command.

  • “Turn off the lights downstairs”

  • “Turn on the fan in the office”

  • “Start heating the upstairs”

Check your home’s status

  • “Did I lock the front door?”

  • “Show me the entryway camera”

  • “Did I close the garage door?”

Play audio anywhere, or everywhere

  • “Play a song I like in the kitchen”

  • “Move the music to the den”

  • “What’s playing in the kitchen?”

Control audio

  • “Set the dining room volume to 10 percent”

  • “Remove the music from the kitchen”

  • “Stop playing music everywhere”

Control your accessories remotely

If you have a home hub set up, you can ask Siri to control your home while you’re away.

  • “Turn off the lights in the Chicago house”

  • “Lock the front door”

  • “Close the garage”

See alsoHow to use Siri on iPhoneTurn on and activate Siri on iPhoneChange Siri accessibility settings on iPhone
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