If I tell Siri to remind me to buy egg nog for Christmas, it will set a reminder to buy egg nog at 9am on December 25th. Is there a way to make it not schedule reminders that mention Christmas?
Yes.
Phrase your request more precisely to state what you are trying to do.
In this case, are you simply trying to say: "Hey Siri, remind me to buy egg nog."?
The same thing would happen if you use other recognized holidays such as "Buy candy for Halloween," "Buy eggs for Easter," or "Buy turkey for Thanksgiving." Siri tends to work best when using the simplest phrasing possible.
So then the answer is no. 😟
cilias wrote:
So then the answer is no. 😟
No, the answer is not "no".
Is there a way to make it not schedule reminders that mention Christmas?
Yes. Say, for example, "Remind me to buy Christmas egg nog."
Siri is advertised as a product in which the user doesn't have to change his/her phrasing. When a user asks how to make Siri behave a certain way, they're usually looking for a setting, not a different way to phrase what they want.
In this case, I don't think it's more reasonable to expect Siri not to schedule the task. If I say "Buy egg nog on Christmas" I would expect Siri to schedule the task. If I say "Buy egg nog by Christmas", or "Buy egg nog before Christmas", I would expect Siri to set a due date of December 25th. If I say "Buy egg nog for Christmas", it's part of a project of tasks for Christmas. I even think it would be reasonable to set a due date of December 25th if I said "Buy egg nog for Christmas". But to schedule the task for December 25th, is not intuitive.
I've been administrator and moderator of online community support forums for over 15 years, and it's very common for support volunteers to feel the urge to defend the product, rather than just admit when there's a bug. I think that's the case here.
If there's no setting, there's no setting; it's no big deal. I'm not going to stop using Siri because of it, and not going to claim that Siri is crap because of it.
In other words, who heck says "Buy Christmas egg nog" instead of "Buy Eggnog for Christmas"? 😁
I completely disagree.
cilias wrote:
In other words, who heck says "Buy Christmas egg nog" instead of "Buy Eggnog for Christmas"?
Personally, I try to get things to work without worrying about or trying to assign fault. If I tried "Buy Christmas egg nog" and got the result you did and deemed it undesirable (as you have), then I would try an alternate solution to the problem until I found one that worked. "Buy Christmas egg nog" would satisfy that, as it would not place a reminder under the Christmas date.
To take this one step further, just as I would not say "Remind me to buy milk so my son can have milk for his cereal in the morning", or "Remind me to buy an umbrella because it might rain tomorrow", I would also not find the need to place the reason for purchasing egg nog in the reminder at all. "Buy egg nog" should suffice. And if you would like to place the "... for Christmas" at the end, once a failure to treat the reminder as you wish occurs, I would find that even stronger motivation to simply say "Buy egg nog".
I completely disagree with considering this placement of a reminder on Dec. 25 as a "bug."
Again, you originally asked if there is a way to "not schedule reminders that mention Christmas". There is.
Enjoy your Apple gear.
Can I get Siri to ignore Christmas?
