The worst part is, its clear that Siri (or, more accurately, the developers behind it) know what youre trying to do: Say Turn on Do Not Disturb, and you get a link to iOS 6s new setting for muting notifications. Id love to use Siri to toggle that setting, or Bluetooth, or Airplane Mode. (Speaking of that last one: Id love to be able to use Sirifor settings, at leasteven when Im not connected to the Internet. After all, iOS had built-in speech recognition before it had Siri; surely that could be used for things like turning Airplane Mode off.)

Siri makes quick works of all sorts of common tasks. But the fact that it cant help with something I do several times a day continues to frustrate.Lex Friedman

Inaccessible settings

While the Settings app is easy enough to use, there are a number of settings that I access frequentlyturning wireless networking on and off, for examplethat still require too many taps.

The Android operating system has a nice solution to this problem: It lets me place widgets on the home screen that provide quick access to such settings. For example, my Nexus 7 comes with a pre-installed widget that I can tap to toggle WiFi, Bluetooth, location, and syncing, and to cycle through screen-brightness modes. I wish iOS had something similar.Dan Frakes