To make life a little easier, I’ve made you a PDF of these commands that you can download here or below - just click on the image to get to it. You should work through them and remember the ones you need as it will make dictation on your iOS devices way more effective, despite the lamentable lack of Delete. What commands can I use when I dictate on iPhone, iPad?Īpple has managed to put a huge collection of commands you can use when dictating on your device. I’m urging readers to contact Apple to tell the company to add a Delete function to iOS. I can’t believe these 64-bit pocket computers lack the power to achieve this, so must only put this missing feature down to Apple not caring about dictation enough. To delete your data from Apples servers, tap Siri & Dictation History. How about a phrase like ‘Edit mode: Delete the last three words’, for example? An option would move to the top as soon as you disable Siri.

Surely Apple could develop a way to tell your device to delete the last word, character or even parghraph. Show me my tweets What are people saying about Apple. That means if you say something stupid, make a mistake, garble a word and it gets picked up wrong, or any of the other common things that happen to people dictating messages a million times every day you need to delete the entire message and start again, or you’ll need to edit what you have written manually. Updated: iOS 9 Listed below are some common commands which can be used with Siri in iOS 9.

Apple dictation commands delete