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.



5 thoughts on “Dialing a phone number with your Apple Watch, tell Siri who your spouse is”

  1. You don’t need to go to all that trouble, while you are welcome to do so. If you ask Siri to call your son, daughter, wife, husband, cousin, boss, or a number of other persons and Siri doesn’t know, she will tell you. You can than provide the persons name and SIri will establish the relationship and remember it.

  2. Doesn’t work for me. (Just updated to 9.1). Tapping the “mother” field does nothing. It can’t be changed on my iPhone 6s. Next comes father. He’s no longer with us. So I can’t change it to anything.

    And why the heck is it showing a Facebook icon? What have they done now to invade my contacts? I have to go in and turn that off again?

    Much easier just to say, “Hey Siri, Sue J is my spouse.”

  3. Of course you can also say “Hey Siri, call Joe Smith” and, presuming you have a Joe Smith in your contacts, that will work. Of course, using your spouse’s full name like that is odd, so the ‘my wife/husband’ shortcut is a nice tip.

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