siri - reminders when arriving at location??

Maybe it didn't understand you although I assume you said it a couple more times. Maybe Apple didn't include store names to avoid legal reasons. I really don't know, just guessing, I don't have a 4s, just a 4.

I can't get this to work either. Siri understands what I'm asking, she just can't make the connection. I tried the often used example "remind me to buy milk when I get to the grocery store." She just responds with "when would you like me to remind you?" and I say "when I get to the grocery store." She then says I don't understand what you're telling me. UGH.

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You have to add the store to your contacts with address. It has to now which store and where the location is. When you pick location in reminders, pick for example, Kroger.

Siri is only designed to work with the addresses in your own contact card: typically "Work" and "Home". However, you can do a little hack and get another place to be recognized. For example, to have Siri recognize the location "Whole Foods", I have to add another address to MY contact, type in the whole foods address, click the title of the address, scroll down to Custom and label the address "Whole Foods."

Works great, albeit messes up your contact card a bit if you ever send it to someone.

/df

I was having the same problem & likewise was baffled that Siri couldn't do this. You'd think just putting a business name/address in your contacts would be all that was necessary. For that matter, you'd think Siri could pull the address off the web pretty easily.

I tried your fix & couldn't get it to work for me. For example, I want to be able to set up reminders for when I arrive at or leave a hospital at which I do surgery. I tried setting up a custom address label I called "The Hospital" so I could say "Remind me to sign my charts when I arrive at the hospital". Siri has no idea what I'm talking about. If you've been able to successfully use this "work around" I'd appreciate any ideas about what I may be doing wrong.

In any case, I'm sure this is something they're working on - seems obvious that this is something people would want/need. How am I supposed to set up reminders that I'm not supposed to be anywhere within 500 yards of a Chucky-Cheese!?! 👿

Update - I guess it just took awhile for my custom address label to be updated - now it's working.

I also tried putting the business name in the "first name" field of the contact as another poster suggested (so my contact card wouldn't be messed up) - that still didn't work. Oh well, I guess my contact card will be kinda jacked up. I put my nickname as "Oh Great One" so Siri would address me like that so I guess I've already blown that option. Somone else suggested making an alternate contact listing for myself without all the "Siri Modifications" that I use to share with business associates. That seems like a good work-around.

Remember, Siri is currenty a beta program in the 4S. If you have enhancements/bugs to report you can always do so at:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Same problem here.

When I say "Remind to [blank] when I arrive at [X]", it replies "When would you like me to remind you?"

"When I arrive at [X]."

"I do know what you mean by 'When I arrive at [X]'. You can be reminded at a time, or when you leave or arrive somewhere. When would you like me to remind you?"

Repeat until insane.

[X] is in my contacts, with name & address, and if I type a reminder, it readily accepts [X] as the location.

Would love guidance on this one.

Thanks all.

Try this, it works:

All you need to do is open your MAP app, type in an address and then place a pin there. Click on the PIN and then ADD TO CONTACT. Once in the contact simply add the tag, i.e. Home, Cinema, Office etc..

Saw this on another Siri post and it works

I have the same problem. When I create a reminder, and then Siri asks "When would you like me to remind you?", I say "When I arrive at Costco". This never seems to work. But, when I say "Remind me to buy milk when I arrive at Costco", this does work. Is this a bug with Siri, or I'm wondering if this is something that doesn't work in Canada yet?

I got it to work by adding a contact, and then creating a relationship for it in my own contact card. So [name] is my mom, [name] is my husband, [name] is my grocery store...

It works fine now 🙂.

I tried adding Costco as a relationship (feels weird), but it still does the same thing. I have to say the whole reminder in one line, or else it doesn't recognize the location. Is this a Canadian thing? Does it work 100% for anyone outside of the US?