This might sound strange, but a question

[batsy312]

I suffer from night terrors, and I had to call Apple technical support to help me to figure out how to use the Health app on my iPhone to monitor my sleep.

Because my doctor may want to prescribe me some medication to help with my sleep my question is.. is there a way to have Siri send me a message every hour when I go to sleep in her voice? Like so and so, this is Siri. I know sounds stupid but it might help me to sleep at night. Is there anyway to do that?

I'm not new to Apple products but I am new to iPhone and iOS.

 

[neutrino17]

Sorry to hear that.
Try this website:

How to automatically play songs on a HomePod or iPhone speaker at a set time

Learn how to set your iPhone and HomePod to automatically play your favorite playlist at a set time of the day.

www.idownloadblog.com

It won’t invoke Siri, but it will play a song at a scheduled time. You could use the Voice Memos app to record your voice or a friends voice for a short time. I don’t use shortcuts but maybe you could make a shortcut to play this. Shortcuts are quite popular so I think you could get help with this.

 

[Slartibart]

maybe you like to elaborate exactly what you need. the following short cut does - probably - the basics:

It uses Short Cuts »Speak text« talent. »Play/Pause on iPad« will/can be adjusted to your device(s). You might not need the repeat loop. You probably want increment the 5 second »Wait«. And maybe some other voice than »Daniel«? 😃

 

[NoBoMac]

Don't think the Repeat is needed.

Big hurdle is the "every hour" part. Unfortunately nothing as flexible as launchctl or cron in Shortcuts. And cannot set a sleep/wait for one hour (Shortcut will time out well before getting close to one hour). So, would need to define Automations in Shortcuts at, say, top of the hour to run the above Shortcut.

Alternative: can set a Reminder with "repeat every hour" before going to bed. Won't get a Siri voice (unless you change your Reminders tone to something similar), but will get a tone of some sort.

Similar but probably a bigger pain: have not looked in a while, but 3rd party calendar apps sometimes have alternate notification methods. Example: Google Calendar can send an email for an event. So... can setup events for every hour while asleep to send an email, then in Shortcuts, Automation to do the Shortcut when "email arrives".