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

I used to be able to ask Siri to remind me to do something then she would ask when I wanted to be reminded. The poblem is now she just creates a reminder with no time and does not ask me when I want to reminded. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

iPad, iOS 6.1.3

Posted on Aug 20, 2013 1:08 PM

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Aug 22, 2013 6:33 AM in response to Ouisee

I was searching for the same thing. yes, if i say "remind me at...." it works. But I never used to need to do that. I am also finding that when I manually create reminders it use to set a due date/time be default and this does not happen any longer. iPhone 4s and iPad 2, bot up to date on software and reset (and iPad does not have Siri). thinking Apple changed something in iCloud

Aug 24, 2013 3:11 PM in response to Appleisboss

You're mistaken, sir. :-)


Although one has the *option* of stating the location in the initial request, it's not required.


Like others, here, have stated, I used to say, for example, "Remind me to call Steve," and Siri would always reply, "OK. When would you like me to remind you?" I'd say "At 3:30" or "When I get home" or something similar. But of late (as reported), she has stopped asking "When...?"


Now that I'm reading the accounts of others with the same issue, I'm suspecting a problem or a change at the system level. (As I'm sure most of you know, our queries to Siri are sent over the network to servers, where our speech is rapidly processed, then instructions are sent back to our phones, where a response is "spoken" to us.)


I can't imagine Apple would intentionally remove this feature, as it's been widely reported that they're hiring entire teams to make Siri do even more and to make her even more "human-like." So, hopefully this is just a glitch. But we need to make sure Apple knows about it.


Everyone, please file reports worth Apple, here:


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

Aug 24, 2013 3:16 PM in response to Syncopator

P.S. I rarely use Siri on my iPad, but it just occurred to me to do so, and I got the same results as I've been getting on my iPhone.


This further suggests a possible server issue, as it's unlikely that some sort of "corruption" would have occurred in the operating software on both devices at the same time.


Just a theory, but that's my hypothesis at the moment.

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

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