Siri: 'Here's what I found on the web for "turn off the alarm on Anna's iPhone"'
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How to Silence An Alarm on a Family Member's iPhone Using Your Own iPhone
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Interesting. I'll have to try it in the office next time someone leaves their phone behind...
Can I do something with preventing Anna iPhone for waking her up? Like
Hey Siri don’t wake Anna up. ??
Hey Siri don’t wake Anna up. ??
Siri: "Just a minute. Working on that. I'm having trouble connecting to the internet. For more information check the Home app."
This is the fundamental problem with Apple presenting Siri as "just ask questions", rather than giving a very detailed accounting of what Siri can understand.
Doesn’t work for me as usual it seems. With growing frequency from Apple. Same WiFi. Same family. Siri cannot find the alarm that’s blaring in the room.
Didn’t work for me. Tried multiple combinations of iPhones on the same Wi-Fi network and on the same family sharing.
This works for HomePods too. If I hear the alarm from the other room I’ll ask Siri on my phone to turn it off.
Kinda contrived examples. Most weather services don't list past weather information. You have to go to sites that specifically list historical weather.
When I was younger, my brother would have loud hip hop as his alarm clock and would wake me up in my bedroom since our rooms shared a wall. He’d never wake up, so the music would just play endlessly. I figured out that if I called his phone, it would stop the alarm. I’d just have to let the call go on long enough for it to go through; it wouldn’t have to play the ringtone for longer than like half a second and it would cancel the alarm.
Needless to say, this would have been a welcome feature back then. 😄
Needless to say, this would have been a welcome feature back then. 😄
Or "Hey Siri, turn off all social media and chat apps for the rest of the day on my wife's iPhone"
Damn, won't work at my home; we turn off wifi during the night...right before I put on my tinfoil hat for bedtime.
but Siri s.u.c.k.s............
If you live in a family household, there's a good chance that at some stage you've been disturbed by someone else's alarm going off on their iPhone. If their phone is out of your reach and no one else is bothering to turn off the alarm, the disturbance can quickly become irritating, but if your own iPhone or iPad is nearby, there's a handy trick you can use to silence that alarm without you having to get up.
The next time you hear an alarm going off on a family member's iPhone and your own iPhone or iPad is within earshot, simply say "Hey Siri, turn off the alarm on Anna's iPhone" (or the name of whoever's iPhone it's likely to be).
Siri will ask you to confirm that you want to stop the alarm that's going off on the person's iPhone, to which you can respond with "Yes" or "No," or you can tap the same two onscreen options. All things being well, the alarm will be silenced forthwith.
Tip: You can make the same request using a nearby HomePod with Siri enabled.
Note that this feature only works if the noisy iPhone in question is owned by a person included in your Family Sharing group, and that person identifies in Family Sharing with the name that you use in the Siri request. Lastly, both devices must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
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MR why not link to the original Reddit post?
Came here to post this exact thing. Thanks for posting - annoyed that MR are pretending they weren’t inspired by the original post!
That's okay - I've been turned off by movie theaters for going on a couple decades now...
Alarms shouldn't last that long in the first place. If the owner doesn't turn it off, chances are they're not around.