Siri and geofencing reminders

[Arafiel]

Has anyone been able to get this to work?

If I say "remind me to call my parents when I leave work" she writes out "when I leave work, call my parents" with no geofence. If I say "remind me to call my parents" and wait before she asks when to say "when I leave work" it SEEMS to understand, but then says "I'm sorry, I was unable to create that reminder."

Anyone have more luck or is this just a bug for the time being?

 

[Anonymous Freak]

I have the same problem.

The issue, as I see it, is that Siri creates "Tasks" on my Exchange server, which don't allow geofencing. What you need is an iCloud "Reminder", which does. Even when I say "remind me to...", it creates a task on my Exchange account, not a reminder. If I manually edit the list the event is in, I can add the geofence, but I can't figure out how to make Siri default to the iCloud Reminders.

If I completely disable Tasks on my Exchange account, it works. But I don't want to disable Tasks on Exchange, I only want to make iCloud Reminders the default.

 

[Tammster]

I have the same problem.

The issue, as I see it, is that Siri creates "Tasks" on my Exchange server, which don't allow geofencing. What you need is an iCloud "Reminder", which does. Even when I say "remind me to...", it creates a task on my Exchange account, not a reminder. If I manually edit the list the event is in, I can add the geofence, but I can't figure out how to make Siri default to the iCloud Reminders.

If I completely disable Tasks on my Exchange account, it works. But I don't want to disable Tasks on Exchange, I only want to make iCloud Reminders the default.

You dont need to disable your exchange account. By making iCloud the default folder for new reminders (you can always add them manually to other folders without Siri), go to Settings-->Mail, contacts, calendars--> and scroll all the way down to the bottom where it says Reminders. Then just change the default list to iCloud.

Now it works every time.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Thanks, worked like a charm!