Best Amazon Alexa Commands For 2021

Amazon’s smart voice control, Alexa, works with your voice commands. Amazon Alexa is establishing itself as a reliable alternative to Google Assistant and Siri. It is a life hack that can be managed from your couch.

We are offered a selection to get you started with the voice assistant, between multimedia, calls, information, dimming lights, weather, controlling appliances, and alarm clock.

Amazon Alexa’s possibilities on the Amazon Echo are really numerous, and it takes time to know the right commands. Here we offer you a selection of the most useful: alarm clock, multimedia, weather forecast, information. Of course, there are many others, but you have to make a choice and start somewhere. This list below is already a good start.

Top Amazon Alexa Commands

Even if you are a user of Alexa, you are short of knowing the list of Alexa commands. Whenever Alexa supports a new device, new commands will be added to its list. The list is ever-expanding, and you will have something more to learn.

Alexa Commands for Messaging and Calls Access Controls

• Call another Echo user – “Alexa, call [name].”
• Play messages – “Alexa, play messages.”
• Answer an incoming call – “Alexa, answer the call” or, “Alexa, answer.”
• Use Drop In on your device – “Alexa, drop in on the living room.”
• End the call – “Alexa, hang up” or, “Alexa, end the call.”
• Drop-In on another user (only when it’s allowed by other users to drop in anytime) – “Alexa, drop in on [name].”
• Send a message to another Echo user – “Alexa, message [name]” or, “Alexa, send [name] a message.“

Native Alexa Commands

• For Help – “Alexa, help.”
• Disconnecting a device – “Alexa, disconnect my phone.”
• Stop and Pause – “Alexa, stop.” and “Alexa, shut up.” respectively.
• Connect a device – “Alexa, connect my phone.”
• Pair a Bluetooth Device – “Alexa, pair.”
• Volume Changes – “Alexa, set the volume to 4.” or “Alexa, louder” or “Alexa, turn up/down the volume.”
• Mute or Unmute – “Alexa, mute.” or “Alexa, unmute.”

Alexa Commands For Food and Entertainment Controls

• Find nearby restaurants – “Alexa, find me a nearby pizza restaurant.”
• Sample music from an artist – “Alexa,  sample songs by [artist].”
• Find movies in nearby theatres – “Alexa, what movies are playing?” or, “Alexa, what action movies are playing tonight?”
• Find popular music from an artist – “Alexa, what’s popular from [artist]?”
• Get information about the movies on the play – “Alexa, tell me about the movie [title].”
• Get the names of band members – “Who is in the band (name)?”
• Get IMDb rating – “Alexa, what is the IMDb rating for [movie or TV show]?”
• Get album information – “What year did [band] release [song or album]?”
• Know about an actor – “Alexa, who plays [character] in [movie or TV show]?”
• Find a particular album or song – “Alexa, find [song or album] by [artist].”
• Know about an actor’s latest work – “Alexa, what is [actor]’s latest movie?”
• Find out the singer of a particular song – “Who sings the song [title]?”
• Get casting for a movie or show: “Alexa, who plays in [movie or TV show]?”

Alexa Commands For Media Commands

• Play music – “Alexa, play music.”
• Start Amazon Music Unlimited trial – “Alexa, start my free trial of Amazon Music Unlimited.”
• Play a radio station – “Alexa, play [radio station] on TuneIn.”
• Like or dislike a song on Pandora and iHeartRadio – “Alexa, I like this song” or, “Alexa, thumbs down.”
• Play the song of the day – “Alexa, play the song of the day.”
• Add a song to Prime Music library – “Alexa, add this song.”
• Queue specific song or artist – “Alexa, play music by [artist].”
• Restart a song – “Alexa, restart.”
• Play music on Spotify – “Alexa, play (playlist) on Spotify.”
• Play Music or Play Next – “Alexa, play” or, “Alexa, next.”
• Play a station on Pandora – “Alexa, play [artist] station on Pandora.”
• Song information – “Alexa, what’s playing?”
• Play an audiobook – “Alexa, play [title] on Audible,” “Alexa, read [title]” or, “Alexa, play the book, [title].”
• Set a sleep timer – “Alexa set a sleep timer for 45 minutes” or, “Alexa, stop playing in 45 minutes.”
• Resume the last played audiobook – “Alexa, resume my book.”
• Read my Kindle Book – “Alexa, read me my Kindle book.”
• Skip audiobook chapters – “Alexa, next chapter” or, “Alexa, previous chapter.”
• Play a song based on context – “Alexa, play the latest 2Cellos album” or, “Alexa, play that song that goes” Take me to Church, I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies.

Alexa Commands For Smart Home Controls

• Turn the lights on or off – “Alexa, turn on the lights” or, “Alexa, turn off the living room lights.”
• Control GE appliances with the Geneva skill: “Alexa, tell Geneva to preheat my oven to 400 degrees” or, “Alexa, ask Geneva if my laundry is dry.”
• Change the colors of the lights – “Alexa, make the living room lights red” or, ”Alexa, turn the lights to soft white.”
• Control the TV via Harmony hub: “Alexa, turn on the TV” or, “Alexa, turn on Netflix.”
• Change the color temperature of lights – “Alexa, make the kitchen lights a little warmer.”
• Track down a lost phone with the TrackR Lost My Phone skill: “Alexa, ask TrackR to find my phone.”
• Dim the lights – “Alexa, dim the lights to 50 percent.”
• Use IFTTT recipes: “Alexa, trigger [IFTTT recipe].”
• Set temperature – “Alexa, set the temperature to 72 degrees.”
• Discover smart home devices: “Alexa, discover my devices.”
• Adjust the temperature – “Alexa, raise the temperature by 2 degrees.”

Alexa Commands For Sports Controls

• Know about the results of a finished game – “Alexa, what was the score of the [team] game?”
• Get Fantasy Football update with the Yahoo Fantasy Football skill: “Alexa, ask Yahoo Fantasy Football for a score update” or, “Alexa, ask Yahoo Fantasy Football if Colin Kaepernick is playing this week.”
• Ask when is the next game scheduled for – “Alexa, when do the [team] play next?”
• Get info about league standings – “Alexa, what are the MLB standings?”
• Ask if a team won – “Alexa, did the [team] win?”
• Check the Sports update – “Alexa, give me my sports update.”

These are the most often used Amazon Alexa commands. It is not easy to memorize all these commands, but you will naturally follow all of them once you are accustomed.