Why can't Siri set alarms in the future and for specific dates?

[bornfromanegg]

Thanks. I will do that.

I was more just wondering why Apple would do that or not allow that. Do the majority of people not set alarms more than a day in advance? When crafting what Siri and the clock app can do, why were specific dates not part of it?

Maybe I use alarms and its functions differently than most people. Maybe allowing Siri to set alarms in the far future or even more than 2 days in advance.

And maybe I'm misunderstanding your answer, but the clock app has more than a 24 hour window. You can set an alarm for any day of the week, up to a week out, by manually going into the clock app and doing it. Setting specific dates though for alarms, May 24, 2015, for example, is not possible with Siri or the clock app,

Nor is, to my knowledge the ability for Siri to set an alarm for "Friday April 24", even though you could manually go into the clock app and set an alarm for the generic Friday and it would go off on April 24, Friday.

It seems like if you can do it manually and its allowable in the clock app, seems like Siri should also be able to do it?

But again, maybe Im a minority here and most people either set alarms via Siri one day in advance or else manually set the alarms a week in advance in the clock app

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And its also a question, i guess of, WHY is that function not available in Siri or the clock app?

I know I’m late to this party, but what no one seems to have mentioned is that you *can* do what you said above.

As you say, you can go into the Alarm app and set an alarm for up to a week out, so you could set it so it goes off on Friday, but what you’re doing is setting it so it goes off *every* Friday.

If you say to Siri, “set an alarm for 11:00 every Friday” that will work. Or “set an alarm for every Thursday and Friday at 12:00”. Or “set an alarm every day…”, you get the idea.

Anything you can do in the alarm app you can do via Siri.