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Re:Toyota ad hijacks Siri to switch off iPhones while driving by vbezhenar on Saturday July 11, 2015 @10:45AM (#9869921)
> Actually couldn't you just tell siri to turn airplane mode off?

Siri is a network service, it can't work locally.

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Re:Toyota ad hijacks Siri to switch off iPhones while driving by coldtea on Saturday July 11, 2015 @10:53AM (#9869948)
For such simple commands, it could very well be made to.

In fact, IIRC, it had an offline mode back in the day before Apple bought them.

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Re:Toyota ad hijacks Siri to switch off iPhones while driving by StavrosK on Saturday July 11, 2015 @11:33AM (#9870125)
It still has an offline mode that can only make calls.
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