So, you’ve got your new iPhone 4S and you want to start setting up Siri to recognize people like your spouse, children or boss. But if you’re like me you might have run into an issue with some folks whose name is pronounced one way, but spelled nothing like it. For example my daughter is named Kaci. If I try to explain to Siri that Kaci is my daughter, Siri replies that it can’t find anyone in my address book named Casey. That is problem. The solution is right in front of you.
When Siri responds with what it thinks the name should be, take that little nugget of information and open your contacts. Locate the person, click edit, scroll down to add field. Then select Phonetic First Name and put in the name Siri thinks you’re trying to use. Click Done.
If you go back to Siri and try to set that person’s relation to you it should now find them. The only issue I’ve found with this so far is that the iPhone (when sorting contacts by first name) will sort that person by the phonetic name first. So my daughter doesn’t show up in the ‘K’ section anymore. She’s now in the ‘C’ section. The good thing is you can remove that phonetic setting once you’ve defined the relationship and Siri won’t care.
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