How to get Siri to dial my contact called "voicemail"?

I have a contact in my iPhone called "voicemail" that dials my company voicemail service. If I ask Siri to "call voicemail" it just says "you have no new voicemails" as it's trying to check the mobile network's voicemail service (even though I've changed the voicemail shortcut in the Phone app to dial said contact).

I'm sure I've managed to get it to call the voicemail contact in the past by saying something like "call contact voicemail" but today that didn't work. Other than changing the name of the contact, what can I do to get Siri to dial this contact?

Solution 1:

I know your question states: Other than changing the name of the contact, what can I do to get Siri to dial this contact?, but you don't clarify why you don't want to do it this way?

I'm not aware of another way to do this, and in my case changing the contact name works flawlessly. I just created a contact called "Company Name Voicemail" and Siri has no problems whatsoever.

I just say, "Hey Siri, call..." and she just dials the number and I go from there.

Solution 2:

Try adding a nickname to the company voicemail contact.

• On the iPhone, go the Contacts app, select the contact, and tap 'Edit' (top-right).

• Scroll almost all the way to the bottom and tap 'Add Field'

• Tap 'Nickname'

• The 'Nickname' field will be added near the top of the contact entry (when I tested it, the field appeared under 'Last Name' and before 'Company').

• Try entering something like 'Office Voicemail' or whatever else you want to try.

Then try invoking Siri to say 'Call Office Voicemail' and see if it will use the Nickname.

I've had luck with this for other people, but I haven't tried it for voicemail, so I can't say for sure if it'll work.