how to ask siri to answer the phone

there are several reasons you can't always answer your phone by touching the screen maybe you have mobility issues maybe your hands are dirty or you're washing the dishes but Siri can actually answer those calls for you and it's pretty simple to set up just open your iPhone settings and go to Siri and search and make sure to listen for hey Siri is turned on and then scroll down to announce calls now this setting allows you to use this feature only while wearing headphones using headphones and car play or always choose always now here's what's going to happen when you change these settings Jamie Tucker or one other hey Siri answer Siri will announce who's calling and then you can say answer the phone and you'll be connected if you're not able to hold the phone up to your ears say Hey Siri answer the phone on speaker you'll be able to talk to the person calling from several feet away you'll also want to go back into settings and turn on call hang up now this is new so if you don't see it update your phone to iOS 16. this way when you want to end the call just say hey Siri hang up the phone unfortunately for Android users there isn't an option that works on every Android brand since each Android phone is different you should check the accessibility settings to see if there's one for your device that's what the tech I'm Jamie Tucker

Channel: Jamey Tucker

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Keywords: siri, siri tricks, iphone tricks, tricks and tips, how to answer the phone without touching the screen, accessibility tricks

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Length: 1min 24sec (84 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 09 2022