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Q: How to ask Siri for directions to my next appointment?

This is making me crazy, and I'm sure I'm just missing something simple: I have an item on my calendar, including the location. I ask: Siri, please give me directions to my next appointment.  Siri brings up the appointment - but nothing else. I then ask: Siri, how do I get there? "Get where?", she responds.

 

I've tried a number of different questions to get Siri to give me directions to a scheduled event, but none have worked. (And, I do know that I don't need to say "Siri" or "please", but it's fun!)

 

What do I need to ask Siri to get her to pull up either driving or transit directions to my next (or any) appointment/event on my calendar?

iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Jan 23, 2014 3:25 PM

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  • by Kramerjn01,

    Kramerjn01 Kramerjn01 Jan 23, 2014 4:00 PM in response to lisfolks
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    Jan 23, 2014 4:00 PM in response to lisfolks

    I'm pretty sure Siri can't pull a location from the calendar to give you directions. You'll need to say, "take me to (speak full address)"

  • by lisfolks,

    lisfolks lisfolks Jan 23, 2014 6:23 PM in response to Kramerjn01
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    Jan 23, 2014 6:23 PM in response to Kramerjn01

    Well, yes, Siri does very well if I speak the entire address. However, I was driving and couldn't look up the address easily. The full address was in the calendar's "location" box, so I expected that Siri would easily be able to look that up.

     

    I just chatted with an Apple Support Specialist, who confirmed that Siri doesn't seem able to use that information. She's going to forward my question to the Apple engineers for further consideration. In the meantime, she asked me to send my feedback as well at: www.apple.com/feedback/

     

    I like Siri and very much look forward to getting to know her better!

  • by Kramerjn01,

    Kramerjn01 Kramerjn01 Jan 23, 2014 6:33 PM in response to lisfolks
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    Jan 23, 2014 6:33 PM in response to lisfolks

    It's a complaint of mine as well (it'd be much more useful if it could do it). I was going to suggest you leave feedback for Apple so I'm glad the engineer told you that as well. I guess we'll just keep fingers crossed it happens in a later release.

  • by ClimbrJohn,

    ClimbrJohn ClimbrJohn Dec 27, 2014 8:55 PM in response to lisfolks
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    Dec 27, 2014 8:55 PM in response to lisfolks

    Was this feature ever added?  I still can't get it to work (using iOS 8.1.2)

  • by srelan,

    srelan srelan Apr 17, 2015 9:37 PM in response to lisfolks
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    Apr 17, 2015 9:37 PM in response to lisfolks

    Yes this is very frustrating.  But mores, because this is such an obvious natural usage of Siri when driving, and easily enough to extract the address from the appointment knowing the context of the question.   I'm usually pretty defensive of the aggressive questioning of missing Apple features, but this one should be a no-brainer.  And yet it doesn't work.  And I need it almost every day.

     

    It seems that the last couple years Siri gets "dumber".  I don't casually write that.  I'm a fan of my iPhone, but more and more I keep reverting to the Google app and it's voice search instead of Siri because IT JUST WORKS so much better.    Except, the google app can interact with the other on-phone apps or data, like your calendar, etc.  So we're stuck with Siri, HOPING that it will improve, yet seems to regress in functionality every year.   (first it was the removal of WolfframAlpha knowledge base for answering datapoint questions, where now Siri just returns a webpage or wiki, not the answer..)

  • by srelan,

    srelan srelan Sep 17, 2015 11:16 AM in response to lisfolks
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    Sep 17, 2015 11:16 AM in response to lisfolks

    i just installed OS9 and unbelievably the very obvious feature NEED has still not been fixed with Siri.

  • by ClimbrJohn,

    ClimbrJohn ClimbrJohn Sep 17, 2015 11:26 AM in response to srelan
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    Sep 17, 2015 11:26 AM in response to srelan

    I would suggest anyone that would like this feature added submit a request here:

     

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

  • by Joseph Bayly,

    Joseph Bayly Joseph Bayly Sep 16, 2016 10:25 AM in response to lisfolks
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    Sep 16, 2016 10:25 AM in response to lisfolks

    This is *still* not possible in iOS 10!

     

    So hard to believe. In fact, I was convinced it would work this time, so I spent 5 minutes sitting in my car *again* trying out every conceivable way I could think of to ask Siri to do this for me. Wow.