Ask Siri to make a Phone Call or FaceTime
- “Call my wife on mobile”
- “Call home”
- “Call my mother on her work phone”
- “Call 703 555 1212”
- “Redial last number”
- “Return missed call”
- “Call back my last missed call”
- “Call 911”
Ask Siri to Send Text Messages (SMS)
- “Send a message to my Justin”
- “Send a message to Sean saying ‘Let’s sign the new record deal tonight'”
- “Send a message to Kerry on her mobile saying ‘I am running late'”
Ask Siri to Read Text Messages (SMS)
- “Read my new messages”
- “Read it again”
Ask Siri to Reply to Text Messages
- “Reply ‘I love you too'”
- “Reply ‘I will arrive in 10 minutes'”
- “Call him on mobile”
Ask Siri about Voice Mail
- “Check my voice mail”
- “Do I have new voice mail?”
- “Play my last voice mail”
- “Play the last voicemail from Pam”
- “Play voice mail from Kerry”
Ask Siri to Send Email Messages
- “New email to Sean Combs”
- “Email Kerry and Lisa and say ‘I am going out of town this weekend'”
- “Email mom about the trip”
- “Mail Justin about the concert tickets”
Ask Siri to Check Email Messages
- “Check email”
- “Read my last email”
- “Do I have any new messages?”
Ask Siri to Respond to Email Messages
- “Reply ‘Hey Kerry, let’s watch Scandal tonight”
- “Call him at work”
Siri Productivity Questions
See Siri commands related to reminders, manage lists and notes, and set alarms and timers.
Siri Commands for Calendar
- “Schedule a meeting with Sean tomorrow at 1 PM”
- “Schedule a conference call with Justin today at 7 PM”
- “Schedule a meeting about the new acquisition at 1 PM”
- “schedule meeting about renovations at 2PM tomorrow in the conference room
- “Set up a meeting at 10 AM”
- “Set up a meeting with Brian at 11 AM”
- “New appointment with Andrew Tuesday at noon”
- “Meet with Kerry at 6”
Ask Siri to change events
- “Reschedule 7 PM meeting to 9 PM”
- “Reschedule my 10 AM meeting today”
- “Reschedule my appointment with Dr. Manning to next Monday at 9am”
- “Move my 2pm meeting to 3:30 PM”
- “Add Andrew to 3:30 meeting”
- “Add Alicia to meeting with Andrew”
- “Cancel the new acquisition meeting”
Ask Siri about your events
- “What’s on my calendar today?
- “What’s on my calendar tomorrow?
- “What’s on my calendar for Friday?”
- “When is my next meeting”
- “Where is my next meeting?”
- “When is my next appointment?”
- “When am I meeting with Justin?”
Contextual Reminders (Remind me About This)
Most of Apple’s apps support this feature. For example, you can ask the Siri App to remind you about a web page you’re looking at in Safari, a specific location in Maps, a text message in Messages, a contact card in Contacts, your last edited document in Apple’s office suite, and more.
- “Remind me about this”
- “remind me about this in an hour”
- “Remind me about this when I get home”
- “Remind me about this when I get to the car”
- “Remind me about this email Friday at noon”
- “Remind me about ‘this place’ when I get in the car”
Ask Siri to set a Reminder
- “Remind me to check the mailbox”
- “Remember to stop by the bank”
Time based reminders
- “Remind me to call mom at 7 PM”
- “Remind me to walk the dogs at 7am tomorrow”
- “Remind me to leave work at 4 PM”
Location based reminders
- “Remind me to water the flowers when I get home”
- “Remind me to stop by the dry cleaners when I leave work”
- “Remember to pick up dry cleaning next Friday”
- “Remind me to call Kerry when I leave”
- “Remind me to call Barry when I get to work”
Ask Siri to Create and Find Notes
- “Create note: Door pass code is one two three two”
- “Note that I spent $25 on dinner”
- “Create song list note
- “Find my song list note”
- “Add Alicia Keys to my song list note”
Ask Siri to check the time
- “What time is it?”
- “What day is it?”
- “What is today’s date?”
- “What time is it in New York?”
- “What time is it in Belgium?”
- “What’s the date this Friday?”
Ask Siri to set or change Alarms
- “Set an alarm for 7 AM”
- “Wake me up tomorrow at 5 AM”
- “Wake me up on weekdays at 6 AM”
- “Wake me up on weekends at 10 AM”
- “Wake me up in 3 hours”
- “Change my 7 AM alarm to 6:30 AM”
- “Show all alarms”
- “Turn off my 6:30 alarm”
- “Delete my 6:30 alarm”
- “Turn off all alarms”
Ask Siri to use a Timer
- “Set the timer for 10 minutes”
- “Show the timer”
- “Reset the timer”
- “Stop the timer”
- “Resume the timer”
- “Change timer”
Web Searches and Info
Search the Web
- “Search the web for best Windows tablets”
- “Search for baked chicken recipes”
- “Search the web for best smartphones”
- “Search for news about the November Elections”
- “Search Google for Siri commands”
- “Search Google for top jazz albums”
- “Google upcoming tablets”
- “Search Wikipedia for Siri“
- “Search Bing for upcoming movies”
- “Bing upcoming smartphones”
- “Search Twitter for Tech Ranker“
- “Search Yahoo for what’s happening in China”
- “What’s the definition of democratic?”
- “Show me the Orion constellation”
- “How do you spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?”
Search the Web for Images
- “Search for images of dogs”
- “Search for images of Washington DC”
- “Search for images of Microsoft Surfa
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