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Siri - Set Relationships?
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Set up a contact for yourself and edit it to add a field "relationship" or something like that. Then you can add mother, brother, etc. Next time you tell siri to "send text to your mom it will know. Magical..
I believe you can also say:
"My brother is Jim Thomas" or "Jim Thomas is my brother."
Probably any form of "my <something> is <contact name>" will be saved as <something> = <contact name>, unless they only programmed in family relationships.
Can someone please try an experiment, like "My honey is ..." or "My tiger is..." and see if it takes any word after the "my"? So you can later say, "text my honey" or "call my tiger "?
"My brother is Jim Thomas" or "Jim Thomas is my brother."
Probably any form of "my <something> is <contact name>" will be saved as <something> = <contact name>, unless they only programmed in family relationships.
Can someone please try an experiment, like "My honey is ..." or "My tiger is..." and see if it takes any word after the "my"? So you can later say, "text my honey" or "call my tiger "?
I've gotten this far, but my only options for relationships are spouse, manager, and assistant. Does anyone have any idea why this is the case? I'm syncing my contacts with Exchange 2003 and I have a hunch this may have something to do with it (limitation/bug)....
Guys you don't need to do anything with your contacts. Do this:
1) activate Siri
2) say "call my brother"
3) Siri asks who your brother is
4) tell Siri which of your contacts is your brother
5) Siri will then ask if she can remember that name as your brother
6) you say yes
That's it. The next time you ask to call your brother, it'll know who it is.
1) activate Siri
2) say "call my brother"
3) Siri asks who your brother is
4) tell Siri which of your contacts is your brother
5) Siri will then ask if she can remember that name as your brother
6) you say yes
That's it. The next time you ask to call your brother, it'll know who it is.
I've been saying "My (relationship)'s name is ________" or "(insert name) is my (insert relationship)". Works like a charm, except for having a little trouble with uncommon names.
I don't give Siri a command, I just tell her random relationships I have with people and she makes note of it.
I don't give Siri a command, I just tell her random relationships I have with people and she makes note of it.
Sorry mate, but its just not the case for some of us, and judging by other threads, the ones having trouble are Exchange-sync'd contacts. Though you can still "train" Siri by saying "X is my brother" we only have a MANAGER, ASSISTANT, or SPOUSE field to save the relationship to. If we say "X is my brother" she responds "Save X as your manager?"
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Siri on my daughters phone addresses her as me...in other words it calls her Robert instead of Tabatha. How do I tell it to address her as Tabatha and not my name?
Siri on my daughters phone addresses her as me...in other words it calls her Robert instead of Tabatha. How do I tell it to address her as Tabatha and not my name?
I found a fix: (this fix assumes you have setup your iCloud account to sync contacts...even if you don't have any stored in iCloud yet)
1) Go to Contacts, then click Groups in the top left
2) Go to your iCloud addressbook
3) Create a new contact for yourself
4) Save the contact, but then edit it: delete any "linked" contacts (these are listed towards the bottom)
5) Go into Preferences -> iCloud and set "My Info"
6) Again click Groups in the top left, choose iCloud addressbook, and select the new contact you made for yourself in step #3
Now when you tell Siri "Joe is my brother" she'll remember!
siri is really starting to annoy me
i cant set personal relationships . when i go to my personal contact i can only set manager, spouse or assistant. thats all. evern when i tell siri "my girlfriend is ..." she says she stores it but it stores under manager. what the hll am i doing wrong? this is starting to annoy me now
i cant set personal relationships . when i go to my personal contact i can only set manager, spouse or assistant. thats all. evern when i tell siri "my girlfriend is ..." she says she stores it but it stores under manager. what the hll am i doing wrong? this is starting to annoy me now
This is a problem with exchange sync accounts. Gmail and Google Apps users will have the same problem if they use google sync. Relations and custom fields are not supported by the protocol. Thats why the iPhone does not make those fields available. You can actually set relations in your google apps account but it will never sync down to your phone.
Don't have a 4S, but would love a confirmation on something. If you ask Siri to "Call Daddy" without setting the relationship, does the sexy computer voice say back "Who's your daddy?"
Try this:
Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Contacts > My Info
And select her contact instead of yours. If she doesn't have a contact for herself, just create one quickly and then choose it. I think that should do the trick.
