Dial
Siri · 04 of 06
Say the room. It happens.
The remote already has a microphone under your thumb. Dial gives it the house.
“Set the Kitchen to 40.”
Exact volume, in the room you named. Not the room Siri guessed.“Group the Kitchen with the Living Room.”
Two rooms become one, mid-song, in sync.“Pause the Deck.”
One room stops. Every other room keeps playing.“Play Rise by Herb Alpert in the Living Room.”
Apple Music, Spotify and Pandora are searched at once. The room’s own service wins when it has the song.“Play Herb Alpert radio.”
A station, or a saved favorite, matched by name. Say it in the room that is already playing and that room is where it goes.Exact matching, on purpose
Voice control fails when it guesses. Dial matches the room name you said against the rooms your system actually has — exactly — and acts only on a match. “Kitchen” never becomes “Kids’ room.”
Where it runs: the request is handled on the Apple TV, the iPhone or the watch and carried out over your own network like every other control in the app. Saying it is just a faster way of pressing it.
One decision, three ways to ask
A song asked for by voice, typed into search, or requested by another app in the house goes through the same rule: every service is searched together, the answers are read in the room’s own order, and a station or a favorite is matched against what your system has saved. The play then lands on the speaker the same way a tap does, and when it cannot, the reason is the same sentence.