I was using Siri wrong on my Apple Watch

I’ve long used Siri on my Apple Watch to respond to texts, but doing it wrong the whole time. Here’s what I was doing:

1. Raise watch.
2. “Hey Siri, send a text to Melanie…”

The whole interaction was very command-line. I was talking to computer like a computer, but I didn’t have to. First, I didn’t need to say “Hey Siri” with Apple Watch. Just raising the watch signals Siri to start listening. Second, I learned that explicitly specifying “send a text to…” is needlessly convoluted. Siri doesn’t need specific syntax. Here’s what I do now:

1. Raise watch.
2. “Tell Melanie…”

While not terribly quicker, the new flow is much more natural.