If I ask Siri to text or call a contact it fails because it doesn't recognize my icloud contacts. I've tried turning contacts on and off and that hasn't worked.
Try enabling the toggle next to "Contacts" in the Spotlight search settings. Afterwards, try to get Siri to call one of your contacts.
I just checked and it already was enabled.
Try toggling it off, then back on. What, exactly, are you asking Siri?
The same thing happened to me. I asked Siri to call my daughter's name; Siri said that I didn't have a contact with that name (spelling out her name exactly as it appears in my contacts.) Then I tried "Siri, call my daughter." I have my personal contact card set with my daughter's contact set in the related name field called "daughter. Siri still didn't make the call. (This time it said something was wrong. This happened three times in a row.)
I've also tried "Send a message to [my daughter's name]" and it gives the same error, can't find [my daughter's name].
I've tried toggling Siri off and on, but I still couldn't get it to work.
My contacts are synced with Google rather than iCloud but I don't think that should matter.
I don't use Siri much but I was trying to do this while driving. It has worked in the past (I just got the iPhone 6s last October, so it was sometime in the last 5 months; currently running iOS 9.2.1.) I've also had trouble with getting Siri to play music. I don't try to use voice actions much, but it would be nice to get it working at some point.
I don't know what to tell you, except to maybe reset all settings. I mean, Siri recognizes the spoken names of everyone in my contact list without a problem. I even told it to send a message to my daughter, prior to typing this reply, and it recognized her name instantly and prompted me to speak the message to be sent.
Settings→ General→ Reset→ "Reset All Settings". Your apps and data will still be present on the device, but the device's "settings" will revert to their default state.
[warn]Do not select "Reset All Contents and Settings"[/warn]
Well that still didn't work. Asked her to text my wife and she doesn't know who she is. Guess I'm sol
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Did you tell Siri who your wife is? Say, "Siri, Jenny is my wife!". Make sure there's not more than one Jenny in your contacts.
Also, did you edit her contact card with "wife"?
Like this:
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