I usually use the “Hey Siri, remind me about this” quite a lot. For example, I’m looking at an email I need to respond to when I get back home. I have the email on the screen of my phone and say:
“Hey Siri, remind me about this when I get home.”
Siri sets a personal reminder which is triggered when I get home. That reminder has a link to the email.
I can do the same with a contact, a note, and a few other things.
However, when I tried it today, I got:
“What do you want me to remind you about?”
Saying “Remind me about this email” merely set a reminder that says “this email”.
I often use “remind me” when I’m on my bike because otherwise I will forget by the time I get home. The past couple of updates have made that very interesting. Sometimes it wants to be unlocked as well which doesn’t work as it’s in my pocket.
Today I asked what time it was so I could decide if I wanted to ride further. When riding I just long press the headphones (which also has a new noise in the last couple of updates, it sounds like it has a cold).
What time is it?
She replies “that’s an interesting question”
UGH
What time is it now?
9:58am
Little while later:
What time is it?
You have 7 alarms set, and she proceeds to go down the list.
Old one. Siri “Remind me about this” was once again working a few days after I posted the OP.
Today, I was at the Apple store, got an email, so I said:
Me: “Remind me about this when I get home” Siri: What do you want me to remind you of?"
It’s not working again. I asked the guy at the Genius Bar, and he wasn’t sure what I was talking about. Does anyone else ask “Hey Siri, remind me about this.”? Do you find it works and doesn’t work? Am I the only person in the world who does this?
I have always wanted a way to pin a location as I’m driving. Years ago I figured out I could say “Hey Siri remind me to look up when I get here” and she’d make a reminder with the address or coordinates, saying something like “I’ve added a reminder for when you arrive at this location” (which means I frequently get reminder popups while driving). I probably could have said anything instead of “look up” but it worked for me.
In the past few months when I say that, I now get “What do you want to be reminded about?” as a response. So something did change.
I just did some tests and I can say “remind me to get the keys when leave (or arrive) here” both work as expected.
I can also say “get the keys when I get home” and that worked.
Glad I’m not the only one - I used to use “remind me about this” all the time, same use case as you, but it no longer works. You know, I generally tend towards giving Siri a pass, when everyone is yelling about how much she sucks, but it’s getting harder and harder to do!
I originally wrote this about a year and a half ago. Between then and now, it works on and off. Sometimes an app will work with just saying “Remind me about this”, yesterday I had to say in emails “Remind me about this email”. Today, it’s back with just being asked to be reminded about this, but now the Photos app only shows latest photo rather than the photo you selected.
I realize there’s a lot of backend stuff going on. I realize they have to keep making changes on the server side. It just irks me when features I depend upon keep breaking at random times.
Took me two tries to set a reminder this morning. The first one somehow got set as repeating with the wrong details (I didn’t want repeating and suspect I couldn’t set one if I wanted to)
I feel like enunciation is messed up with Siri these days.