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How to Use Siri on Apple Watch (Complete Guide)

The Apple Watch is a great health and fitness device. Plus, it’s a great companion for your iPhone, and one of the reasons for that is Siri. Siri continues to improve with every watchOS update, putting it in tough competition with Google Assistant, Alexa, and Cortana.

If you’re still not using Siri on your Apple Watch, you’re missing out on a lot of the Apple Watch experience. However, here is how you can use Siri on Apple Watch.

How to set up Siri on Apple Watch

You can invoke Siri on your Apple Watch by saying “Hey Siri.”If you can’t invoke it with “Hey Siri”, go here to learn how to set up and activate “Hey Siri”on your Apple Watch.

How to use the Siri watch face on Apple Watch

The best way to get started with Siri on your Apple Watch is to use the Siri watch face. It receives all the events and everything you need and displays this information as needed throughout the day. You can scroll through the Digital Crown to view upcoming events.

If you don’t know how to customize the Siri watch face on your Apple Watch, check out the help information and customize the watch face to your liking.

Choose when Siri speaks on Apple Watch

Siri can speak responses on Apple Watch by default. However, you can change when Siri speaks responses. To change Siri voice feedback settings on Apple Watch:

  1. Press the Digital Crown and open Settings on your Apple Watch.
  2. Scroll down and select Siri from the list.
  3. Tap the “Siri Answers”option.
  4. You can choose from the following three options:
    • Always on: Siri speaks even when Apple Watch is in silent mode.
    • Silent mode control: Siri only speaks when your Apple Watch is not on silent mode, and Siri stops dictating answers when you put your Apple Watch on silent mode.
    • Headphones only: Siri only speaks when your Apple Watch is connected to Bluetooth headphones such as AirPods.

Choose the one that suits your preferences and you’re done.

Allow Siri to announce calls and notifications

If you’re in a situation where you can’t check your Apple Watch, Siri can announce notifications and calls to supported AirPods or Beats headphones.

Siri won’t interrupt you when you’re listening to the contents of a notification, and only starts listening to “Hey Siri”after she’s finished reading. Follow the steps to announce calls and notifications via Siri:

  • Put on your Bluetooth headphones and connect them to your Apple Watch. You can check out this tutorial to see how you can do it.
  • Open Settings on your Apple Watch.
  • Click on the Siri option.
  • Scroll down and turn on the “Announce Calls”option.
  • Click “Announce notifications”and enable this option.

Siri will now report calls and notifications to the connected Bluetooth headphones. Alternatively, you can also turn it on by opening Settings on your iPhone → Siri and search, turn on Call Announcements and then Notification Announcements.

Reply to messages with Siri

Siri on Apple Watch can come in handy when you can’t reach your iPhone. If you receive a text message on your Apple Watch and want to reply, you don’t need to take out your iPhone or type on your Apple Watch.

  1. Raise your wrist from your Apple Watch and say “Hey Siri, answer”to wake up Siri whenever you receive a message.
  2. Speak your message on Apple Watch.
  3. Say “OK”to confirm it, or you can say or click “Don’t send”to abort it.

For more such cool tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Apple Watch, check out these 45 Useful Apple Watch Tips and Tricks.

Useful Siri phrases to try on Apple Watch

Siri can execute all the basic commands that you can give it. Here are some fun phrases to help you get the most out of Siri on your Apple Watch. You will need to say “Hey Siri”to wake up Siri and then say your command phrase.

  • Start Workout: You can ask Siri to start a specific workout by saying “start [workout name]”. For example, you can say “start 20-minute outdoor run”to start a 20-minute outdoor run.
  • Let Siri do the math for you: Whether it’s a simple calculation or converting one unit of measure to another, you can ask Siri to do it for you. Just say, “What is [your question about calculations].”For example, you can ask: “What is 29 feet in inches”and he will answer.
  • Check Results: You can ask Siri for the current or past results of any game. Ask Siri “What’s the score for [game/team name]”, Siri will give you the results.
  • Use Siri to translate: ask Siri to translate sentences, say “translate [sentence] to [language]”or “how to say [sentence] to [language]”. For example, you might ask, “Translate I don’t know Japanese into Japanese.”
  • Use Siri to search Google: Ask Siri a few questions and it will search Google for the answer. For example, you might ask “why is the sky blue”, “when was Albert Einstein born”, or “who invented the light bulb”.
  • Ask Siri what song it is: If a song is playing near you and you don’t know what it is, Siri can help you with it. Just ask, “What song is this?”Siri will recognize the song and tell you which song is currently playing.
  • Check email on your wrist: Siri can help you check recent emails on your Apple Watch. You can say “Show me my email”or “Check my email”and it will get a list of recent emails from your inbox. However, if you want to check email from a specific person, you can say “show me email from [person’s name].”
  • Check your update: If you’re starting your day and want to check the plans you’ve made throughout the day, Siri can do that for you. Call up Siri and say, “What’s my news?”Siri will show you the weather, reminders, and any other travel plans you’ve made.
  • Ask Siri what it can do: If you want to know what else Siri can do on your Apple Watch, the best way to find out is to ask Siri itself. Just say, “What can I ask you?”Siri will tell you a few things or provide you with a link where you can find more Siri commands.

How to Delete Siri History on Apple Watch

Now that you enjoy using Siri on your Apple Watch, some of you may have privacy concerns regarding data sharing. You don’t have to worry about privacy when it comes to Apple. However, you still have the option to delete Siri history on Apple Watch; here’s how:

  1. Open Settings on your Apple Watch.
  2. Select Siri from the list.
  3. Click Siri History, and then select Delete Siri History.
  4. Select “Delete Siri History”again if prompted for confirmation.

How to disable Siri on Apple Watch

If you don’t like Siri or think it’s useless, you can disable Siri on your Apple Watch. Follow along to learn how to disable Siri on Apple Watch.

  1. Open Settings on your Apple Watch.
  2. Select Siri settings from the list.
  3. Turn off Listen for Hey Siri, Raise to Speak, and Press the Digital Crown.
  4. Tap Disable Siri when prompted.

This will disable Siri from your Apple Watch, and there are three options you can enable if you want to enable it in the future.

FAQ

If Siri is not responding on Apple Watch, check if you have Siri enabled or not. If yes, but Siri still doesn’t work, check your iPhone settings to see if you’ve enabled “Hey Siri”or not by going to iPhone Settings → Siri & Search and turning on “Listen to “Hey Siri””.

Siri on Apple Watch requires an active internet connection. If your Apple Watch is a GPS + Cellular model or uses a Wi-Fi connection, Siri may work without an iPhone.

Your Apple Watch constantly listens for the “Hey Siri”trigger phrase when you raise your wrist. But that doesn’t mean it records your conversations, so you don’t have to worry.

WatchOS 7 introduced privacy features that let you know if any app is currently using your microphone or not. When you wake up Siri, she uses the microphone to listen for your commands after the trigger phrase. So you don’t have to worry about it.

While you may not use Siri on your Apple Watch often, it can be a great addition to your Apple Watch when you do. This is pretty good compared to other voice assistants on the market.

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