SIRI forgets relationships

Even after entering my wife's name on the spouse field of my contact information, Siri would not remember it despite remembering other relations. The only difference is that my wife had MD as a suffix field in her contact information. I deleted the suffix and Siri then was able to 'remember' my wife.

I was having this same problem--with 6 family members and a girlfriend, this was very frustrating.

What I did--it is weird that I had to do this--is that i went to the "me" contact (preferences-->Siri, must be set up) and deleted all of the family members that Siri had "remembered." Then, I found all of those contacts in my phone book and deleted all of their prefixes and suffixes (Ms., Mr., Mrs., &c).

I then told Siri to remember the relationships again--ie, "X is my mom, Y is my girlfriend." Now, when I tell Siri "text my mom," it has no trouble figuring it out.

I was getting that same "I don't know who your mom is" message, but this fixed it. I went back in and added back the prefixes too, and it wasn't a problem.

Hope this helps...weird workaround.

There is a bug, but it can be easily worked-around.

The Contact entry of you has a list of "Relationships," which is where Siri stores these Relationships. If you sync your Contacts with Outlook, Exchange, and other services (maybe Gmail?), your Contact entry is not formatted to support all of the Relationships.

To work around this:

• Create a new Contact
• The new Contact must be created as an "iPhone" or "iCloud" contact, depending on whether you turned on iCloud
• The new Contact must be you... enter your name and contact info
• At the bottom of the Contact info, you can select "Link Contact", which you can use to link the contact you just created with the Contact you sync with Outlook or Gmail. This is optional, but useful.
• Save your Contact.
• Open Settings and tap General, then Siri
• Tap My Info and select the Contact you just created of yourself. Make sure you selected it from "iCloud" or "iPhone."
• This only applies to the Contact entry for yourself. You don't need to modify the Contact entry for your mother and other Relationships.

It takes less time to do this than to explain this. I hope I was clear enough.

Siri can use the following relationships:

("Call My...")

• mother
• father
• parent
• brother
• sister
• child
• friend
• spouse
• partner
• assistant
• manager

You can add customized labels, but the customized labels don't seem to work with Siri.

From an older post:

If you do not already have one, you need to make a contact for yourself in Contacts.

When you edit that contact, one of the options is to Add Field (it is way down at the bottom just above the Delete Contact button.

When you click Add Field, one of the options is to add Related People. You can then add all kinds of relationships...wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, spouse, partner, mother, father, child, friend, assistant, etc.

After you have saved all your info in your contact, go to Settings > General > Siri and make sure that your contact is the one selected under My Info.

This way, when you say to Siri "call my wife", Siri will look at your contact to see who you have saved under the relationship field "wife".

I did all that and Siri calls my wife when I ask her to call my spouse but the moment i tell her to call my wife, she says sorry there is no wife number for me. But get this, when I turn siri off and then turn her back on n I ask her to call my wife she does it immidiately. Then I close siri n try it again, guess what? I get the same message sorry, there is no wife number for me!!!! Have tried it a thousand times......Have restoerd the iphone 3 times since yesterday.....NOTHING SEEMS TO WORK....kindly help.....ANYONE??????

For Relationships, you can also add:

• Mother-In-Law
• Sister-In-Law
• Colleagues
• best friend (in addition to "friend")

That's what I got so far...

You can also add "Nutritionist" to the list. Since you can add that, I'm sure you can add "Doctor" too, but I haven't tried it.