How To Enable An Hear Incoming Messages Through Your AirPods On IPad Or IPhone
How To Enable An Hear Incoming Messages Through Your AirPods On iPad or iPhone
When you’re going out or you are busy, you can have Siri help you read your incoming messages using your Apple AirPods. Possibly you can even reply to your messages without touching your iPhone. Here’s how to do it.
First: Here Are The Things You Need
To allow Siri access to help you announce your messages through your AirPods or your headphones, you’ll need to be running the iOS 13.2 or a higher version (on iPhone) or iPadOS 13.2 or a higher version (on iPad).
You’ll also need to purchase one of the following headphone or earbud devices:
1. Powerbeats
2. Powerbeats Pro
3. Beats Solo Pro
4. AirPods (2nd Generation)
5. AirPods Pro
6. AirPods Max
How The “Announce Messages with Siri” Works
With the “Announce Messages with Siri” enabled, Siri will be able to read your new incoming messages (both the iMessages and text messages) through your AirPods (when you have them on) even times when your device screen is locked.
Siri will at first make a tone, then it will announce the sender’s name, and finally, Siri will read the message. If the message to be read is too long, Siri will ask you if you want to read the full message or not.
If you have to reply to a message, simply say “Reply,” then you say your message. Siri will then read your message back for you to hear and then ask you whether it’s OK to send it. Confirm to send the message.
How To Get The “Announce Messages with Siri” enabled
1. To enable the “Announce Messages with Siri” feature, you would first, make sure that you have your AirPods coonected and paired with your iPhone or iPad.
2. Next, open the Settings app on your iPad or iPhone.
3. Open Settings App on your iPhone
4. In Settings, click “Notifications.”
5. Choose Notifications from Settings
6. Click “Announce Messages with Siri.”
7. Navigate to the section of "Announce Messages with Siri"
8. On the next page, click the switch beside “Announce Messages with Siri” to turn it on.
9. Enable the Announce Messages with Siri Feature
10. You will now hear an incoming message that will be announced by Siri.
11. While you’re still in the “Announce Messages with Siri” section, you can turn on the “Reply without Confirmation” feature that is if you’d like to reply a little faster. This will allow Siri to send replies without even having to read back the message to you first.
12. Enable Reply Without Confirmation
13. After that, close Settings, and you’re set.
14. If you want to disable “Announce Messages with Siri” later, just visit Settings > Notifications > Announce Messages with Siri again, and then you can turn off the “Announce Messages with Siri” option.
How To Avoid Incoming Message Spam from the Siri
By default, the “Announce Messages with Siri” feature will announce by itself always any new messages from anyone and everyone. If you are getting a lot of spam messages, this is not a great idea.
1. To change this, open Settings and navigate straight to Notifications > Announce Messages from Siri and click “Messages.”
2. Select Messages
3. Just continue to scroll down until you see the “Announce Messages From” section. Click any selection apart from “Everyone” (such as “Recents,” “Favorites,”or “Contacts”) in the list based on your own personal preference.
4. Choose Favorites
5. When you’re done, just exit the Settings. From now on, the incoming messages that Siri will be announcing will be filtered by the selection that you have chosen.
How To Quickly Toggle the “Announce Messages with Siri”
Apple device allows you to quickly turn “Announce Messages with Siri” either on or off making use of a Control Center shortcut, but first you’ll need to add it.
1. Now open Settings on your iPhone or iPad and then click “Control Center” button.
2. Select Control Center from Settings
3. Scroll down and look for “More Controls” on the list. Click the plus (“+”) button that is beside “Announce Messages with Siri.”
4. Add Announce Messages to Control Center
5. Exit Settings. Next, you'll open Control Center. If you’re making use of an iPhone with a Home button, simply swipe up from the bottom-middle of the screen. On an iPhone that does not have a Home button, swipe down from the top-right corner of the screen.
How To Launch The Control Center on an iPhone
When the Control Center appears, click the Announce Messages button (which looks like a rounded square with some sound waves on it) to quickly enable “Announce Messages with Siri,” or to disable the feature for a day.
Click Announce Messages Button in Control Center
That way, any time that you want to silent the voice talking from inside your headphones, you can just toggle it off with a swipe and a click.
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