How can I get Siri to respond in metric when I ask questions like “How tall is Mount Fuji”, “How much does an elephant weigh?”, or “How tall is Brad Pitt”, It tells me the answers in feet, pounds and inches, which are all meaningless to me. Strangely, it tells me temperatures in Celsius. I’ve looked all through settings and can’t seem to find anything.
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Original Title: Siri on metric?
iPhone 16
If Siri may still give feet/pounds for celebrity heights or animal weights even after changing settings, because the responses are driven by how the question is phrased or the database it pulls from — it doesn’t always convert everything to your units.
If Siri still insists on imperial for those fun trivia facts:
Ask Siri to convert (e.g., “How tall is Mount Fuji in meters?” instead of just “How tall is Mount Fuji?”). Siri will usually obey the “in meters/kg” part explicitly.
Language + locale pairing
If Siri may still give feet/pounds for celebrity heights or animal weights even after changing settings, because the responses are driven by how the question is phrased or the database it pulls from — it doesn’t always convert everything to your units.
If Siri still insists on imperial for those fun trivia facts:
Ask Siri to convert (e.g., “How tall is Mount Fuji in meters?” instead of just “How tall is Mount Fuji?”). Siri will usually obey the “in meters/kg” part explicitly.
Language + locale pairing
Try this:
Settings > General > Language & Region > Measurement System - Choose Metric as opposed to UK.
Maybe this? (I don't use Siri so I haven't checked.)
Settings > General > Language & Region > Measurement System >[select US, UK, or Metric]
SravanKrA wrote:
If Siri may still give feet/pounds for celebrity heights or animal weights even after changing settings, because the responses are driven by how the question is phrased or the database it pulls from — it doesn’t always convert everything to your units.
Various complaints about this Siri misfeature around the ‘net.
Settings aside, prompts aside, requests in the Siri command for meters aside, Siri still serves up freedom feet and probably even furlongs.
I’d expect the language corpora are just loaded with feet and furlongs, and not units more sensible.
To the OP: log some feedback. Since there isn’t a Siri category, probably into iPhone hardware.
Maybe this changes with the recently-announced Google Gemini backend migration?
While it's possible in some apps to change Siri's response to metric, Siri responses are for the most part tied to the region you are signed into on your iPhone. So, if you are signed into the US Apple Store, Siri will mostly provide measurements in feet, inches, etc.
RobM77 wrote:
I’ve done that. Still does it.
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RobM77 wrote:
...ask Siri how tall a mountain is *in metres* and it’ll give us the answer in feet.
quite right, we conquered Everest's 29032 feet before the Europhiles messed with the data.
RobM77 wrote:
I’m in the UK. We went metric in the 1970s.
That is debatable. I am still 5ft 9in, 11stones 4lb (whatever tte doc wants), I drink pints, 30mph speed limits, hence UK units as opposed to metric. We didn't defeat Napoleon for nothing.
Siri however is a website trawler and may not convert an american article about Brad Pitt. Ask Siri how tall is William Pitt the elder.
Thanks. I’ve done that, but it’s still in weird American units. That’s for both “UK” and “Metric” set on that screen.
I’m in the UK. We went metric in the 1970s.
I’ve done that. Still does it.
Many thanks.
That isn’t true - try it. Believe it or not, that doesn’t work either. It’s a standing joke in our house that we’ll ask Siri how tall a mountain is *in metres* and it’ll give us the answer in feet.
How do I get Siri to respond in metric?
