If you own one of Amazon’s smart speakers, it is more than likely that you interact with Alexa on a daily basis. This intelligent intelligent assistant that can help us with day-to-day tasks, become our agenda, provide us with data on a specific topic and a long etcetera. But what would you think if we told you that he has been hiding something all this time? Today we want you to know the hidden modes of Alexa and , of course, how you can activate them .
Alexa, what modes do you have?
It is more than likely that, in your day to day, the commands you use with Amazon’s smart assistant are related to playing a song, asking for the time or the time. But, as we have already let you see, the possibilities of this assistant go much further.
Even if you have come to this article because you are investigating the possibility of getting a smart speaker, you have to know that interacting with Amazon’s virtual entity is as simple as saying “Alexa”, followed by the question or action you want me to perform.
If you want to know what Alexa is capable of, you can ask her directly. If you ask the question “What can you do?” So that she can tell you about some of the tasks she can help you with. Or, in case you want to know its available modes, you can ask the question “What modes do you have?” Although now we will list a list of the main and most interesting ones.
On the other hand, if you have doubts about what it would be like to live with Alexa at home, we made a video on our YouTube channel a long time ago in which we tell you about our experience. Take a look and it will surely surprise you.
Best Alexa Hidden Modes
The ways that, until now, Alexa was hiding from you are many. What’s more, its number of available modes is increasing every so often, so this list will grow more and more over time.
Here are the best Alexa hidden modes and how you can activate them.
Super Alexa mode
This mode is one of the best known, since it has been given a lot of hype on the internet. To activate it, it is as simple as saying to the assistant “Alexa, activate the super Alexa mode” , this will inform us that it is a super secret mode that needs a code for its operation. To this, we will have to respond (as if it were the key combination for a video game trick) the following code “Alexa, up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start” . The wizard will automatically inform us that the activation begins, followed by different sound signals.
If you expected that with this mode Alexa would become a super intelligent entity or that she would transform into a cyborg or something like that, we are sorry to give you the bad news that none of that will happen. This mode is nothing more than an easter egg in memory of the famous Konami code. The most gamers will know what we are talking about.
Soccer mode
In this case, activating the soccer mode will not be “as simple” as that of super Alexa. This is one of those ways in which Alexa will make us a previous questionnaire and, to start, we will have to get at least 2 of its 4 questions right.
The questions will vary between a wide list of questions. Once we get it, Alexa will tell us and start to speach us in the purest style of a football commentator. As you may be imagining, to start the Alexa questions it will be as simple as saying “Alexa, activate the football mode.”
Family modes
Alexa is capable of imitating or putting herself in the shoes of various members of our household. This is achieved through the different family modes available, which are:
- Father mode : if you want Alexa to drop you a good string of typical father phrases, you just have to say “Alexa, activate father mode”. This will tell you that it needs a secret code for which it can give you a clue. If you don’t want to eat your head too much, the name you have to spell backwards is “Alcántara”, the surname of the father from the series “Cuéntame”.
- Mother mode : as in the previous mode, if you want to air mythical mother phrases, you can activate this mode by saying “Alexa, mother mode”. To achieve this, you will have to answer some questions correctly.
- Baby mode : if you activate it, you will hear Alexa crying like a baby.
- Child mode : with this mode Alexa will turn into a spoiled and responsive child.
- Teen mode : in the same way, by changing the way you speak a bit, Alexa can become a teenager thanks to this mode.
- Granny mode : However, if you miss your grandmother, you can ask Alexa to speak like an old person and say typical grandmother phrases thanks to this mode.
Of course, some of them, depending on the region where you reside, may not be available at the moment.
Madrid mode
Madrileños of the world, Alexa can become one of yours. If you want me to, you just need to say the command “Alexa, activate Madrid mode” and correctly answer a series of questions that the assistant will ask you. Of course, do you consider yourself an expert in Madrid? Are you a cat or a three-to-four from Madrid?
If you can activate it, Alexa will sing you a very special song.
Enamored mode
The Amazon assistant also has its little heart, and it shows us thanks to this mode. If you want to start it, you just have to say “Alexa, activate the love mode” . Again, to get started, Alexa will ask you a series of questions related to love and romance, of which you will have to correctly answer 3 of the 4 questions.
By activating this mode we will enter a very cloying moment lived from the point of view of the assistant in love.
Other modes you (maybe) can use
As we have already mentioned, Alexa is including many more modes with each passing day. There are even modes that depending on the region you live in, you can use them or not.
We see this case very clearly with the following modes if you live in Latin America :
- Northern mode
- Caribbean mode
- Taquero mode
- Yucatecan mode
- Chilango mode
- Mexican mode
- Chilango mode
These, if you reside in Spain for example, when trying to play them Alexa will tell you that it does not have them yet, or that they are not available in our region. However, in countries on the other side of the pond they do work.
