Siri feature requests

Very good ideas! I hope somebody from Apple Inc. is reading this! 🙂

They are not. Apple never read these forums for ideas.

If you wish to get their attention you will need to send it directly to them using the feedback URL

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

Allan

You already can create shared reminders. First you have to create a new reminders list that you want to share. Open the reminders app, click on the button with the three bars in the upper left, click "edit" then new list. Call it something like "Shared." Then you need to log into iCloud on your computer (pc or mac), open the calendar app, and in the reminders area you should see the title for your new "Shared" reminders list under "Reminders" on the left side of the screen. Click on the little radio icon to the right of the list you want to share (again, in this example the "Shared" list). That will turn on sharing and will open a window where you can put in the email addresses of people you want to share with. Put in your wife's email address. She will receive an invitation. Once she accepts and opts in, the list will be shared.

To use Siri to add reminders to the shared list you have to first create a reminder, which will be created in your default list. Then, before confirming it, you save it to the shared list. This is the diction that seems to work: "Siri remind me to feed the cat when I get home." When Siri asks you to confirm the new reminder, say "save it to my Shared list." Siri will then confirm that she has created the reminder on your shared list. It will show up on your IOS devices as well as your wife's.

For location based reminders to work on both devices, both you and your wife will need to have a contact set up with an identical address for whatever the location is. So if the reminder is "pick up grapes from the grocery store" you will both need to have a contact named Grocery Store and the address will need to be the same on both. If one of you doesn't have the contact set up, my understanding is that the person without the contact will get the reminder on his/her phone, but it won't "go off" at the correct location.

You can also say " add Feed the cat to my Shared List" This won't create the location reminder but is a quick way to add an item to a specific list. That's a cool tip about adding a location reminder to a specific list.