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WJMack

Siri does not recognize my name?

I don't own an iPhone, but the majority of my family does. When they go to text me, they say "Hey Siri, text name (message)". Unfortunately I tend to go by the shorter version of my name, one that is also a noun and/or a verb. To combat this, my mother has changed my contact to "My Son name" and that actually does work, but not consistently. Is there any way to make Siri recognize my name as a name, and not as a verb or noun? Note that this was working completely fine until around March or April this year, and works as expected on any other virtual assistant we've tried (Google, Alexa, etc.)

Posted Dec 26, 2019, 12:02 PM UTC

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Make your mom try saying “text my son” to Siri on her device. This should trigger Siri to ask for your contact name on your mom’s phone. After that, she should be able to refer to you as son and have a normal looking contact name for you. Also I recommend editing your and your mom’s contact entries on her phone by adding you as a son to her entry and her as a mother to your entry.

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