You just say something like this: "Siri, such and such is my father. Or you can say:
"Siri, such and such is my landlord" Hope this helps, Ioana Sent from my iPhone On 2012-09-29, at 9:32 AM, "Tom rash" <[email protected]> wrote: > How do you initiate this using siri? I know how to do this while in the > address book, but don't see how to initiate this feature using Siri. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sieghard Weitzel > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 9:42 AM > Subject: SIRI and relationships > > Hello List, > > I was never able to add a relationship with SIRI in iOS 5, e.g. So and so is > my brother or My mother is so and so. Now that this is mentioned in every > document I read about what you can do with SIRI I tried it again and at first > it seems OK, I tell SIRI the relationship and she asks “Do you want me to > remember that so and so is your brother”. I tap Yes and then get the > following message: > > The addressbook you are using does not allow me to change this. > > I am using 2 cloud services for my contacts. For personal use I use Windows > Live Hotmail and for business use I use Microsoft Office 365 which is full > hosted exchange. Adding relationships for contacts I have in either contact > list results in that same message. > > I am curious whether somebody who uses Google for storing contacts gets the > same message because if that is so Apple is offering a SIRI feature which is > useless for just about everybody except those who use an Apple @me.com email > where I assume this will work. > > I am not syncing my contacts via iCloud although I guess I could try that, > e.g. turn of Contacts in the Hotmail account and turn it on in iCloud. I am > not sure if this will screw things up and if anybody has ideas, suggestions > or experience with this I’d appreciate any feedback. It’s not like being able > to tell SIRI who my Mom or my brother is would completely make my day, I can > still go into Outlook and put in “Mom” or “Brother” as a nick name and then I > can say “Call Mom” and it works. > > I am also mystified by what is supposed to be a new ability of SIRI. I read > an example where they say “So and so is my favourite comedian”, can’t > remember what name they used. > So, I just told SIRI “Shania Twain is my favourite country singer”. SIRI > replied “I see”. Then I asked “Who is my favourite country singer” and SIRI > said “I don’t know”. Does this mean I have to add Shania Twain to my contacts > first not withstanding that my contacts can’t have relationships associated > with them? > > I wish Apple would put some useful functionality in SIRI like “Redial the > last number that called me” or “Turn Bluetooth on” instead of coming up with > gimmicks that don’t work for anybody who is not using Apple services. > this But > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
