How to ask Siri for directions to my next appointment?

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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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Answer 1

Aug 4, 2017 6:14 PM in response to lisfolks

I would also like this feature plus more that make Siri a true assistant. Eg move Appointment 15 mins later. She could notify the the parties of a delay and let them know the new time. Or duplicate exiting appointment on a different day of the week. Or call client in next appointment without having to look up whom they are.

These are simple programmatical issues.

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Answer 2

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)"

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lisfolks Author

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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! 🙂

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Answer 4

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.

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Answer 5

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)

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srelan

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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..)

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srelan

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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.

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Answer 8

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/

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Answer 9

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.

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Answer 10

Dec 11, 2016 2:17 PM in response to lisfolks

Almost three years later and Siri still can't do something as simple as give me directions to my next appointment!

Me: "How long will it take me to get to my next appointment?"

Siri: "Which Next Level Construction? Tap the one you want:"

Me: "When is my next appointment?"

Siri: "OK, I found this on the web for 'When is my next appointment':"

Me: "Take me to my next appointment"

Siri: "Your next appointment is at 15:00 today." and shows my next appointment including the location/address.

Me: "Take me there."

Siri: "Directions to where?"

Me: "My next event."

Siri: "Your next event is at 15:00 today."

Me: "How long will it take to drive there?"

Siri: "Here's the traffic" and just shows a map of my city. Totally useless.

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