The personal assistant now asks users to be more concise when necessary

May 15, 2013 08:21 GMT  ·  By

If you ask Siri for something and your sentence drags on, she may now reply to you with a famous quote suggesting that you use fewer words, thanks to a new update from Apple.

If Siri can’t fully understand what you’re saying she may tell you something like, “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

That’s Siri using a Thomas Jefferson quote to politely ask you to trim down on those words before she can give you a straight answer to what you're asking.

Another example is a quote from the 1970s television show MASH, where Hawkeye (Alan Alda) says, “If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday.”

To be noted that the update has been carried out by Apple on the server side of Siri, which means there’s nothing new to download on your iPhone.