How to activate Siri on a Prime Advanced

I enabled the "show notifications" option in the Bluetooth settings of my iPhone. Now when a text message comes in, I get a notification on the 11 inch screen and there is the option for the car system to read the message. Not sure about activating Siri, but would love to know if that's possible too -- certainly would be helpful for replying to texts!

 

Press the phone pickup button on the steering wheel for a few seconds to activate Siri.

 

And you have to have the audio source set to whatever your phone is on, bluetooth for me, otherwise you can't hear Siri. (I don't think it's supposed to be like that, but it is on my car)

 

Maybe. I don't usually listen to the radio, so I can't say for sure. I listen to a USB Flash drive (audiobook), so maybe that's different for some reason.

 

I can hear siri regardless of the current radio mode. it simply mutes everything (it's basically making a phone call to your phone).

 

That is my understand of what *should* happen, but it doesn't in my car.

Making a call works like that, but not Siri.

 

A side question on this - it does not appear that you can do voice-to-text to reply to a text message. Is that true, or am I just missing something?

 

Not sure about replying to an existing text message. What I did was to activate Siri by pressing the phone pickup button on the steering wheel for a few seconds (as suggested above by another poster) and then spoke the text message I wanted to send to the person who sent me a text. Not an elegant solution, but seemed to work.

 

Yeah, it's not elegant, but it works - I figured it would be like that. Not a big deal. Thanks!

 

I have personally used voice-to-text to reply to text messages using Siri on the Prime. It works...

1) Long press the "make a call" button to activate Siri. You'll hear the familiar "two tone" noise to speak to Siri.
2) Say "read my text messages" (or something like that) to Siri
3) After Siri reads the text message, it will ask you if you want to reply. After you speak the reply, Siri will read your reply back to you and ask you if you want to send it
4) If you're OK with the reply, say "yes" and it will send

 

Enable siri and simply say "reply"... that will reply to the last received text message.

NOTE: I was extremely frustrated by the apparent lack of ability to reply to a text message... I was so used to doing this in my Gen 3 when connected to my windows phone (after reading the message it asked me if I wanted to reply). Finally I just said F' it, hit siri and yelled "reply" in frustration... be damned if it didn't work!

 

Interesting...I will have to try this one.