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Siri - Set Relationships?

maddog91 said:
its about pronoucing it. so try saying it with the u not how we say gold in spoken . say it how its read..
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Boy, we have tried. My wife has tried and my neighbor. Comes out the same. I even tried spelling it:). If anyone else can make it recognize the word "Gulf" let me know. Then we will keep trying it. Believe it or not we live near the Gulf and many places we go to have that word in it.
 
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GraphicsGeek said:
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.
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This doesn't work if you're syncing with Google Contacts. I did this, and told her my brother was Jason. She said great, I'll update your info. I went in to my contact card and it has Jason listed as Manager. I went back in to Siri again and asked her to call my brother. She asked me who my brother was. Forgetting I just did this because she set him up as manager. There is no relationship option for brother if you're using Google Contacts.
 
ipoddin said:
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This doesn't work if you're syncing with Google Contacts. I did this, and told her my brother was Jason. She said great, I'll update your info. I went in to my contact card and it has Jason listed as Manager. I went back in to Siri again and asked her to call my brother. She asked me who my brother was. Forgetting I just did this because she set him up as manager. There is no relationship option for brother if you're using Google Contacts.
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I am syncing with google contacts and it works perfectly fine. Maybe step 5 confused you because it is incorrect.
You need to go to Setings > Siri > My Info and set it to the newly created contact in iCloud.
Now Siri sas a contact for you in iCloud that it can add custom fields to. All your other contacts can remain with google. This is the only one that you need in iCloud.
 
akacaj said:
I am syncing with google contacts and it works perfectly fine. Maybe step 5 confused you because it is incorrect.
You need to go to Setings > Siri > My Info and set it to the newly created contact in iCloud.
Now Siri sas a contact for you in iCloud that it can add custom fields to. All your other contacts can remain with google. This is the only one that you need in iCloud.
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Ah, that worked, she now remembers. Thanks!
 
I am having a hard time setting relationships with Siri. I want to be able to say call my brother in-law or sister in-law, How do I set these relationships?

Also, How do you set up relationships with friends? Coz i am sure everyone have more than 1 friend. Do you nickname them if so how?
 
shagam said:
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!
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Yep, that works, thanks

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i-sidd said:
I am having a hard time setting relationships with Siri. I want to be able to say call my brother in-law or sister in-law, How do I set these relationships?

Also, How do you set up relationships with friends? Coz i am sure everyone have more than 1 friend. Do you nickname them if so how?
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I was able to do it using the method that was outlined using icloud.

I was able to set my brother in law, father, sister, brother, etc... Worked perfectly.
 
i-sidd said:
I am having a hard time setting relationships with Siri. I want to be able to say call my brother in-law or sister in-law, How do I set these relationships?

Also, How do you set up relationships with friends? Coz i am sure everyone have more than 1 friend. Do you nickname them if so how?
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You could create a new type of field as the post above says. I created Son, Daughter, Motherinlaw (It worked better than Mother in law or mother-in-law) and onced linked I can call them from that name.

As for odd names, I call many of the people with more unusual names by a nickname rather than their full name, so I added the nickname to the nickname field, but spelt how it is pronounced, and now I can call them by nickname.

I dont have "relationships" with friends as they are not relations, just friends. Because of this I dont have them listed as anything and call them by name or nickname
 
Is my icloud supposed to have my contacts from my phone in it. Right now my contacts in icloud is empty.
 
you can tell her to set anyone as, uuh, anything
 

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teerexx52 said:
Boy, we have tried. My wife has tried and my neighbor. Comes out the same. I even tried spelling it:). If anyone else can make it recognize the word "Gulf" let me know. Then we will keep trying it. Believe it or not we live near the Gulf and many places we go to have that word in it.
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Works for me! I find that I really have to enunciate when talking to Siri, though.
 
akacaj said:
Here is how you can use custom fields such as brother-in-law: http://tingalin.com/2011/10/15/siri-can-remember-custom-relations-or-pet-names/
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This is awesome. I have set about 10 different nicknames in my address book at that enables me to be able to call people much more easily.

I would suggest that, as I think others have said, you type the nickname in roughly how it's spoken if it's a little different. E.g. I have a friend nicknamed 'Babel' and I've found that Siri prefers it typed 'Baybel' - works every time.

Hope others are having fun with this too :)
 
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Siri relationships (iCloud)

My wife and I both have iPhone 4S's. We use the same Apple ID for iCloud.

When we go into Siri settings and enter "my info" Siri will sync the last person to change it. An example would be that I put my info on my phone. Then my wife enters he info on her phone. I go back to Siri later on and it has her info on my phone. Is this because we use the same ID for iCloud?
 
roth697 said:
My wife and I both have iPhone 4S's. We use the same Apple ID for iCloud.

When we go into Siri settings and enter "my info" Siri will sync the last person to change it. An example would be that I put my info on my phone. Then my wife enters he info on her phone. I go back to Siri later on and it has her info on my phone. Is this because we use the same ID for iCloud?
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Yea; and I think that if one of you guys makes a serious iCloud update in the future, it's really going to mess up information on the other phone.

The stuff is made to be used with one phone only, why don't you just going create your own account?
 
We generally share the same contacts and calendars. If I were to create my own iCloud Apple ID could be still share our contacts and calendars?
 
roth697 said:
We generally share the same contacts and calendars. If I were to create my own iCloud Apple ID could be still share our contacts and calendars?
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I'm sure there are a few applications out there that will let you sync contacts... But if not, is it that hard to write the info down of new contact daily? Just take 10 minutes out of the day and share new contacts with each other or something.

Edit just go to the contact, go to the bottom, and hit share contact. Bam. You're done.
 
Yeah, thanks for the note that the more complex relationships need to be stored in the iCloud address book. They should really make this clearer. Beta I guess. Siri now works with all relation ships that I've set up, except for "brother-in-law" which it won't use, even though it's listed the same way she says it when I say "text my brother-in-law."
 
this is flawed ..

i want to set

mother in law
father in law
step mum
step dad

doesn't work
 
rick snagwell said:
can i make it so my buddy chris thompson is douche.

so i can say to siri....call douche.

how do i do that?
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On you're iPhone

-go into your contact page ... The one labelled 'me'
- scroll down and you should find a list of people who Siri already knows by nickname
- click edit and you can add a new entry to that list.
- click custom to write whatever nickname you like

I'm not sure, but if you add the nickname field (add field in address book on Mac) toall your contacts you can then add custom nicknames to each contact. I am just not sure if Siri 'reads from that field.
 
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