Tom,
Let's assume your Dad is John Rasch and you do have him entered under that name in Contacts, you would activate SIRI and say "John Rasch is my father". SIRI should come back and ask "Do you want me to remember that John Rasch is your father? Rely with Yes or No or tap one of the buttons" You can then press and hold home again and say "Yes" after the SIRI tone or double tap on Yes. However, keep in mind that unless you use iCloud to store your contacts this will not work. If you use gmail, Hotmail or Exchange SIRI will come back after you confirm and tell you that the addressbook you are using does not support this feature. Apple in their typical way of ignoring anything not Apple never did point this out during any of their Keynotes when they showed off this feature. Because of this limitation relationships are a useless feature for probably 95% of the world. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tom rash Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 7:52 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: SIRI and relationships I did that. I'll try it again. The result I got was I don't know that. Do you want me to look it up on the internet? I am using the standard contact list that came with the iphone. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ioana Gandrabur <mailto:igandra...@gmail.com> To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 7:17 AM Subject: Re: SIRI and relationships 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" <dadnthed...@gmail.com> 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 <mailto:siegh...@live.ca> To: viphone@googlegroups.com 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. 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