Make Personal Requests on HomePod
Personal Requests are voice commands that use info from certain apps on your iPhone or iPad, including Messages, Reminders, Contacts, Calendar and Notes, and from other apps you’ve installed that work with Siri.
To learn how to set up Personal Requests, see Set up Personal Requests.
Make Personal Requests on HomePod
Try any of the following examples:
Hear about your day: Say “Hey Siri, what’s my update?” You’ll get updates about your weather, news, reminders, calendar events and more.
Send a message: Say “Hey Siri, send a message to Aarav saying that I’ll bring the vacuum cleaner with me”. If the recipient replies within a few minutes, a chime plays.
To send a message with a different messaging app, say something like “Hey Siri, send a WhatsApp message to Stephan”.
Read messages: Say “Hey Siri, read my unread messages” or “Hey Siri, read my messages from Kim”.
Work with Reminders: Say “Hey Siri, remind me to buy garlic”. You can also refer to places that are in Contacts on your iPhone or iPad. For example, say “Hey Siri, remind me to call Mum on Tuesday”. You can ask about items in Reminders too. Say “Hey Siri, what’s on my shopping list?” To tick off a reminder, say “Hey Siri, mark ‘water the plants’ as complete”.
Work with Notes: Say things like “Hey Siri, add a note called ‘birthday presents’” or “Hey Siri, add Tolkien to my ‘favourite authors’ note”.
Work with Calendar: Say “Hey Siri, what’s on my calendar for today?” You can also say things like “Hey Siri, when is my meal with Edwina?”; “Hey Siri, what time is my first meeting tomorrow?” and “Hey Siri, add an appointment to my calendar on Monday at 9 am called ‘marketing presentation’”.
Find your devices
You can ask HomePod to find an iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple Watch connected to the same network as HomePod. If you have Family Sharing set up, you can also find devices for your family
Say something like:
“Hey Siri, where is my iPhone?”
“Hey Siri, ping my iPad”
“Hey Siri, find Lily’s watch”
Keep track of family and friends
If your friends and family have shared their location with you in the Find My app on iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple Watch, you can use HomePod to locate them. For example, say something like “Hey Siri, where’s Will?”
To learn more about setting up location sharing in Find My, see the iPhone User Guide.