Siri doesn't ask me when I want to be reminded

THANK YOU G3gator!

Am SO glad I found this thread!

Thought I was losing my mind when I'd ask Siri to remind me to pay a bill and she didn't ask when I wanted to be reminded. Something she had always done in the past - but stopped within the last week or so.

Was about to fire Siri, but will hold off thanks to the work-around posted here.

Much appreciated!

C'mon Apple just like introducing a macbook air with a lighted keyboard then the second version you remove it....

what is going on with Siri? It no longer asks when I'd like to be reminded. What in the heck is going on. I now have to select the reminder and turn on when I'd like to be reminded!? This is not good for hands free driving! As you can see many others and myself depend on this so we can be safer drivers and abide by not interfacing with our phones manually while driving. When are you going to fix this?

martymilewski wrote:

what is going on with Siri? It no longer asks when I'd like to be reminded. What in the heck is going on. I now have to select the reminder and turn on when I'd like to be reminded!?

No you don't.

Just tell Siri when you want to be reminded.

I think the issue is that Siri seems to be having "senior moments," as previously she automatically asked when you wanted to be reminded.

Then something changed. Maybe iOS 7 prep?

I too noticed this change in Siri's behavior and consider I got use to the way it was before I wish Apple would change it back. The second question should always be 'Would you like to schedule this reminder?" and then "When would you like me to remind you!"

Apple stop changing previously established protocol!

LindyD wrote:

I think the issue is that Siri seems to be having "senior moments," as previously she automatically asked when you wanted to be reminded.

Yeah, but to me it's kinda redundant.

Why not get it done in one interaction instead of 2?

Much cleaner & quicker.

ChrisCA, you keep saying it's simpler to just state the date and time when you state the reminder topic, all in one breath, and indeed it is but sometimes one needs a minute to figure out the best time to be reminded. Maybe not with your garbage example, but the time I am most likely to use Siri to set reminders is at 2am when I'm awoken from sleep by a work call. It's very likely in this scenario that I might need an extra second to think of when I want/need the reminder, or that I might forget to set a time entirely. What good is a reminder if it's sitting in a list I might forget to check? Siri took a step back on this one.

JennnnD wrote:

Siri took a step back on this one.

Okay, but Siri no longer seems to ask when to remind you.

So you have a choice..

• Tell Siri to set a reminder at a certain time
• Tell Siri to remind you then again tell Siri what time you want the reminder set for
• Tell Siri to remind, then you open the reminder and set the time yourself
• Not use Siri and enter the reminder yourself

Well said, JennnnD. Unfortunately, the issue was not fixed with iOS 7.

BTW, no need to comment, Chris CA. We've already read what you have to say - several times.

Thanks for the response!

"Change the time" also works for creating location based reminders. Using your example I tried "change the location" which Siri replied "I don't understand...". However, saying "change the time" she/it asked "when would you like to be reminded?". Saying "when I get home" created a location based reminder. Thank you for your initial tip.

I'm finding Siri not only doesn't ask when you would like to be reminded, but now even when you include a time (i.e. "Remind me to call the dentist today at 4") Siri will say "okay I'll remind you" then sets a reminder with no time or alert associated with it.

The easiest way for me has been to request the reminder backwards from when reminders first came out.

Tell Siri, "Remind me when I get home". She will say, "OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about". Then state what your reminder is for.

This also works for time reminders too.

So just tell her/it when or where, then what.

It's a year later after the original post ,the ios is 7.something something, I tried to set a reminder through siri for the first time since i purchased my iphone 5,and it didnt work :D siri does not ask when to remind you and f you ask her what reminders you have set up,she respondes with none.. *** apple doesn't read any of these forums and posts, i mean a whole year and a bunch of updates of the os and still this feature doesn't work .. Really ? C'mon ...