Dialing a phone number with your Apple Watch, tell Siri who your spouse is

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If you want to dial a phone number with your Apple Watch, the absolute simplest way is to use Siri.

Hey Siri: Dial 408-996-1010

or

Hey Siri: Dial my wife at her office

Now this last bit only works if you’ve told iOS who your spouse is. Here’s one way to do that:

  • On your iPhone, open Contacts
  • At the very top should be an entry labeled “My Card”, the entry that represents you. Tap to open that contact.
  • Tap the Edit button in the upper right corner.
  • Scroll down until you find the field “add related name”. Tap to add a related name.
  • The default for this field is mother. Tap mother and find the spouse field, tap spouse. Then tap Done.
  • Now tap the info button (all the way to the right, an i in a circle), then find your spouse’s contact, select it.
  • Add more related names if you like.
  • Tap Done.

Now Siri knows who your spouse is.

Or, you can take the simple path and just say:

Siri, XXXX is my wife.

Siri should ask you to verify that (use your own spouse/sibling/parent/child/etc for XXXX), then make the change to your contacts. [H/T Andrew Escobar]

Alternatively, take a look at this iDownloadBlog post, which reviews an app that lets you actually dial a phone number on your Apple Watch.