Troubleshooting Siri

When speaking to Siri doesn’t yield the results you expected, these tips might help.

Siri and Siri AI are Apple services. We have no control over how Siri interprets your input or which app receives the result.

How Siri and Things communicate

When you speak to Siri, here’s what happens:

1. You speak to Apple’s Siri.
2. Siri processes your input.
3. Siri decides which app to send the result to.
4. Things receives the result from Siri.

If the result in Things isn’t what you expected, or Siri doesn’t send anything to Things at all, that decision happens entirely on Apple’s side. This is not something we can fix or improve.

Enable Siri

Have you made sure that Siri is enabled? Here’s how to check:

Limitations

Current Limitations

These are limitations at the time of the OS 27 release (September 19, 2026).

• You can’t create multiple to-dos at the same time.
• You can’t make changes to multiple to-dos at the same time.
• Siri may not always find in the to-dos or projects you mention in a request, even if they appear in Spotlight.
• When requesting to move a to-do into a list, Siri might not always find that list, even though it appears in Spotlight.
• Siri sometimes switches from the Things UI to the Reminders UI. Your data is still stored in Things, so you can continue the conversation as usual.

General Limitations

• You can’t add deadlines to to-dos.
• You can’t add checklists to to-dos.
• You can’t create repeating to-dos.
• Siri doesn’t know about Things’ date-based lists like “Today” or “Upcoming”, so you can’t tell it to “move” something there. Instead, you’ll need to tell it to “schedule” items for specific dates.
• When using Siri with Things on Apple Watch, your iPhone must be nearby.

Siri doesn’t understand “Things” in my language

Unfortunately, we cannot teach Siri how our app name is pronounced. You might have to experiment with different pronunciations. We found that in German or French, “Sings” or “Zings” yields good results. In Swedish, you might want to try “Tings”, with a regular “T” sound.

As a workaround, you can also set up custom shortcuts with Apple’s Shortcuts app. This allows you to specify any phrase, in your language, to interact with Things. Learn more about Apple Shortcuts.