> Make Siri a smarter assistant

>>> When you interact with Siri, Apple’s voice-controlled assistant built into iOS, you don’t see many options, but you can actually personalize it in a number of ways. For a start, make sure it knows who you are. In Settings > Siri, tap My Info near the bottom and choose your own entry in your address book. This gives Siri a bunch of useful information, such as your home and work addresses (so you can ask it things like “Find me a route home”), plus tells it what your name is. That said, if you’d rather it called you by a nickname, activate Siri and tell it “Call me…” and add the name you’d like. You can then give Siri some extra information about your family, to make it easier to contact them. Tell it something like “David Smith is my father” or “Janet Smith is my wife” and it will find their contact information, and store that familial relationship, so that in the future you can just say something like “Call my wife” to trigger a call.

Sometimes, Siri’s pronunciation of names isn’t great. You can tell it that it’s getting it wrong, and it will ask for your guidance, and give you new pronunciation options to choose from. You can also manually fix how it says names from within someone’s Contacts field. Go to one, tap Edit, then scroll all the way down and tap Add Field. Choose Phonetic First Name and Phonetic Last Name, then type in the phonetic versions.

There are also options to change how Siri works. Go to Settings > Siri and you can choose whether it works on the Lock screen, what kind of voice it uses, and whether it can be activated hands-free by you saying “Hey Siri” (on the iPhone 6s or later).