A very useful tutorial for iPhone and AirPods owners, in which we show step by step how you can send text messages with AirPods and how you can listen to received text messages in AirPods and respond to them.
The features of AirPods are not only limited to listening to music and voice conversations. Wireless headphones AirPods they are also an intelligent means of interaction with Siri, through which we can request information and execute operations. In this tutorial you will learn how to listen to received text messages and how to send text messages with AirPods.
With the function Announce Notifications, Siri can retrieve notifications from compatible applications, including Messages, and read the text of the received message. So, when you have AirPods in your ears, you don't need to pick up your iPhone to read a received text message. Siri will tell you who sent the message and will read its content, including emoticons.
To benefit from the option through which Siri can read received text messages and you can hear them in your AirPods, all you have to do is activate the Announce Notifications option for Messages.
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How to enable Announce Notifications for Messages – Reading incoming text messages
To activate Announce Notifications on iPhone or iPad, follow the steps below:
1. Go to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch in: Settings → Notifications → Announce Notifications and activate the first option and the second one. Announce Notifications and Headphones.
2. After activating the two options, scroll down and activate the option for the Messages application.
Once you have activated these options, when you have the AirPods in your ears and receive a text message, Siri it will "read" the content of your message.
How to reply and send text messages with AirPods
After which Siri it will read your received message, it is enough to tell it something like: "Reply thanks you! Good Bye!". The dictated message will be repeated by Siri to be sure that it understands well what you want to send transformed into a text message, then it will ask if you confirm that the message can be sent.
Waiting for confirmation of a message via AirPods and Siri it can sometimes be too slow a routine, especially if you are in a cursive discussion through iMessage.
If you want to disable waiting for confirmation for text messages sent vocally with AirPods, all you have to do is to activate the "Announce Notifications" optionReply Without Confirmation".
After activating this option, you can reply to text messages without waiting for confirmation that Siri as I understood correctly and you also said without the shipping confirmation.
This option will not remove confirmation for new messages you send. To send a new text message with AirPods and Siri, activate Siri (by voice command or the command on AirPods) and say "Hey, Siri... Send message to ".
Siri will confirm the recipient contact, then dictate the text to be sent. The confirmation of sending the text of the message will follow.
