iPhone App-Specific Siri Commands

[Vlad Soare]

Hello,

In iOS 12 you could define custom phrases to use with Siri for triggering actions from apps. You could do this either directly in an app's settings (provided, of course, that the app published such actions to be used with Siri, because not all of them did), or in the Shortcuts app (i.e. create shortcuts and assign custom phrases to them).
However, I cannot for the life of me find this feature in iOS 13. Has it been silently phased out? Or has it been moved somewhere else - in which case, where?

Thank you.

 

[chris4565]

As far as I know that feature is gone in iOS 13 and now you trigger the actions by just saying their names.

 

[Vlad Soare]

Indeed, I think all the existing custom phrases were converted into shortcuts. I did have a vague feeling that I was seeing more shortcuts now than I could remember having created, but I thought it was just an impression. 😁
But even with shortcuts, iOS 12 allowed you to attach a Siri command to each of them. That feature seems to be gone. It seems that now the name of the shortcut is actually the phrase to be pronounced. That's a bit unpleasant if Siri doesn't speak your native language. I used to have English phrases attached to the shortcuts, but their names were in Romanian. I guess I'll have to rename them.

 

[chris4565]

I did have a vague feeling that I was seeing more shortcuts now than I could remember having created, but I thought it was just an impression. 😁

Exactly. I e. g. created a custom phrase to find my keys with "Tile" and this shortcut popped up in the "Shortcuts" app after updating to iOS 13.