My favorite (and most frequent) use of Siri is requesting a timer. I use it every time I bake and for speed clean ups around the house.
@Kalena she’s a great timer, except for the times when she doesn’t listen and I don’t notice until it’s too late.
@Kalena Very useful! My favourite command is probably asking the HomePods at home to start a phone call from my lounge. I remember my childhood days of having to walk to the landline phone that hung on the wall... ergh, so inconvenient!
@Kalena Me too. So many timers in a day. I use it while cooking and also for making great cups of tea. And other odds and ends, such as when to open the garage door for my partner who's on her way home now. 😀
@Kalena this is my favourite function just when I’m going to take a nap! It works with, “Siri, wake me up in 20 minutes.”
@Kalena does siri do named timers? i use my alexa for timers just so i can have multiple timers with names. “Your rice timer is done".. “your bread timer is done”..
@martinfeld It is useful! Haha. At least once you got to the phone, you could still walk a long ways if it had one of those endless spiral cords like ours did!
@sergio\_101 I typically use Siri to set timers on my Apple Watch, and to my knowledge, you can’t set multiple ones that way.
@Kalena @sergio\_101 When I've tried to set multiple timers on my watch (eg forgetting I had one going and setting another) Siri just silently cancelled the one that was underway! Not at all friendly. But then, if I set a second timer on my phone it happily alerts me on my watch.