Not only does Siri work well on the Mac, the Mac version of the digital assistant also brings new capabilities and features. After all, Siri on iOS devices is a bit limited, due to the available processing power, storage and memory on an iPhone or iPad. In addition, the Mac has quite a few more peripherals available that could benefit from being used as an interface element.

“Siri, print six copies of the 2018 quarterly report and collect them.”

Siri may not be quite up to par with that command yet, but it can’t be far off. With the power available in your Mac, it should be easy enough for it to recognize “print” as a command to open the default app for the file named “2018 quarterly report” and then print out as many copies as requested. Collating could be a service offered by the printer.

While we wait for Siri to get a little smarter, you can still use it to perform a surprising number of commands for features found only on the Mac, as well as most of the common commands that have been part of Siri since it first launched on the iPhone 4S in 2011. To help you get the most out of Siri on your Mac, here’s a list of Siri commands that the Mac OS understands in 2021.