How to call, send messages or E-Mail via Siri

If we summarize the minimum, Siri is not just a voice control system. It is able to remember the context and understand personal relationships, but after all is but a wizard voice a little more advanced than we knew before.

Thanks to these qualities can tell Siri to call your wife or our brother and if we kept the relationship, Siri will be able to dial the phone number or send a message without any problem.

Calling, sending messages or emails via Siri

How to establish relations with Siri?

Before you can use the relationships to call or send messages, Siri must explain to our relationship with the people who have contacts stored on iPhone or iPad. To do this we can edit the contact and enter the information by hand or, in a much more comfortable, than directly through Siri.

1. We press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.

   

2. We tell Siri what the relationship. For example Diego is my brother (we have to say the name exactly as you have saved in your Contacts).

   

3. We confirmed the relationship saying Yes or pressing a finger on the Yes button

   

4. Siri will show a confirmation that the link has been added successfully.

   

This works perfectly well for unique relationships, as a parent. But in other cases it may be more problematic. For example if you have several children, you can assign relationships as youngest son, eldest son or the like.

How to manually add data relations in Contacts

If we add these relationships through Siri, you can do it manually through the contacts application.

1. We went into the contacts application of our iPhone or iPad.

   

2. We seek our own contact form in the contact list.

   

3. Click on the edit button at the top of the contact card.

   

4. Click on the field relationship.

   

5. We choose the type of relationship.

   

6. Click on the blue arrow and select the contact sheet that relationship.

   

7. Click on the OK button in the top corner.

   

Now Siri remember this relationship and be able to make calls or send messages with actions like "Call my brother."

Any relationship that is added to a contact card is part of the card, so if you send the card to someone else also see relationships. You might want to create a second unrelated card to share with others.

Get contact information with Siri

Siri is able to quickly find any contact information stored on an iPhone or iPad. This is much faster than search through the contact list and manually enter the tab.

1. We press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.

   

2. We tell Siri the information you want to see. For example: a contact name, When is the birthday of Leanna Lofte?, Etc, etc ...

   

3. Siri will display the information you requested. Also, in case you have more than one contact with the same name, Siri will ask you which you refer.

How to call a contact with Siri

Siri is also able to call a contact using his name or simply mapped relationship, and allows calls to any number you dictemos. A very useful utility, especially when we are driving and need to make a call.

1. We press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.

   

2. We tell Siri who want to call, say "Call Mom".

   

3. If the contact has more than one phone number assigned, Siri will ask us where we want to call. If we call one particular from the beginning we can say "Call Mom Mobile" or "Call Mom work" as long as we have this information correctly assigned in the contact form.
4. Siri makes the call.

   

How to send an SMS or iMessage with Siri

The Siri voice dictation works reasonably well, making it possible to send SMS or iMessage through digital attend a particularly easy:

1. We press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.

   

2. We tell Siri you want to send a message and the person you send it. The fastest way is to say something like "Message to Diego, I'll be late for dinner" or "Message to Dad, everything went well."

   

3. In case you do not know the relationship Siri or name prompts you to enter the number or say the name again.
4. Wait Siri confirm the message.
5. Tell Siri "Send" or click on the OK button.

   

If the message that Siri has written is wrong, we can always say cancel to avoid being sent to change or modify the text.

How to send an email with Siri

Siri messaging is not limited to SMS or IMessages. Siri is also able to send emails, so a person as a number.

1. We press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.

   

2. We tell Siri you want to send an email and to save time we can also say that contact. "Email to John" or "Email to John and Mary."

   

3. If the contact has more than one email address assigned to contacts, Siri pedería us to confirm that we want to send.
4. Siri will ask the email subject.

   

5. Now we have to dictate to Siri email content.

   

6. Wait for us to confirm the text Siri.
7. Tell Siri to send e-mail is sent.

If the message written by Siri is not correct, we can always say "change case", "add" or "change message" to complete the email. Of course, we can also tell Siri cancel to discard the email.

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