It asks for me to touch my name and then there is no place to put it. I added it as a note on the contact page but this does not work.
IPhone – How to enter home address so that Siri recognizes it and can direct me home
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You can create iCloud contacts that merge with your GMail contacts. The iPhone will collate the data from both the GMail contact and the iCloud contact. I have this enabled for Hotmail:
- Enabled iCloud syncing for contacts.
- Open Contacts.
- Press the back button (top-left) until you reach Groups.
- Open All iCloud or All from My PC.
- Create a new contact for your wife. Include her full name and phonetic name.
- Press Done.
- Scroll down and check that Linked Cards shows an entry for Unified and GMail. Press Unified.
- Now you can see how your wife's information combining the GMail information and the iCloud phonetic information.
OK I've found out the answer myself.
It turns out that although the Maps app can geocode (find the location of) my address, Siri can't. It must be using a different geocoder to the Apple Maps app.
After much faffing, I found the easiest way to fix this is to drop a marker on my house using the Apple Maps app and then add this to my own contact record as "home". This fixes the problem and allows Siri to know where home is. However it then means my address is incomplete if I use it for other purposes or in other apps). The only way round this seems to be add it back and tag it as "address" (NOT "home") as a second copy of the same address. Really messy.
Clearly this is a bug in Siri which will hopefully be fixed one day (I won't hold my breath). I don't recall having this problem in iOS 5, so I think this was introduced in iOS 6.
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Siri knows who you are and where you live based on an contact card in your Contacts application that you keep up to date for yourself.
Open the Contacts application on your iPhone. Add yourself as a contact. In the address section add an address and set the type to
home. Save the contact information.Open the Settings application a go to General -> Siri. In that settings page there's a field that says
My Info-- click on that field and select your contact entry from your Contacts application.Now when you ask Siri to find a route home for you, it will use the
homeaddress saved in the contact that you said was you.You can add other places to this contact card and Siri will recognize them like
work. You can also set up relationships in this card. For example: if you create a contact card for your spouse, you can in your contact card link to this other card as a relationship with typespouseorwifeorhusband. Now when you Siri to "Call my spouse" it will use this relationship in your contact card to determine who your "spouse" is and what numbers are available to be called.