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  • I was optimistic that Apple would get this right but Siri AI is yet another embarrassment in a long continuing series of Apple embarrassments.

    I went from being overly exuberant on AI to now thinking it probably should be banned outright. From a consumer perspective, the tech industry is a dead end and the internet now is at best a pipeline for content for your TV and sound system and the rest feels like it should be ignored and avoided.

    Unless there are radical changes on the horizon, there is no way I’m investing any more in the Apple ecosystem and I’m saying this as a former Apple employee and fan.

    by speak_plainly
  • The only voice assistant that has impressed me recently is the new ChatGPT Voice Mode with background reasoning. It's miles ahead of the other assistants.

    The only downside is that it lacks the OS integration of Gemini or Siri. I've been trying to figure out a way to trigger it with the button on my pixel earbuds, but no success - seems it only works with Gemini.

    by Legend2440
  • Siri is the only thing in the whole universe which can make me rage. Not computers, not $dayjob, not my car, not getting lost while riding a rally in the desert, not people. Siri. Only Siri can do that.
    by nsbk
  • Agree - I've had almost all of these problems with Siri.

    Another thing I've noticed is the horrible lag with updating the UI. An example: On Apple Watch I have the temperature complication bottom center. It sometimes shows the current temperature, sometimes it hasn't updated in minutes or hours (bug #1). For example right now, it shows 66 which I know is incorrect. I tap it to go to the Weather app, a different temperature will be shown (56) (bug #2) and then about 10 seconds later (bug #3) it finally updates to the actual temperature (72).

    If I go back to the home screen, finally the complication shows the correct temperature (72).

    These kind of async refresh bugs are not unique to WatchOS, it's endemic throughout the Apple ecosystem.

    Why? Is this poorly coded JavaScript web view apps? Is this React? Some sort of other async framework that works fine when you are testing on the Apple campus but doesn't work in the real world?

    by xmddmx
  • I updated my barely 1-year-old Apple Watch Ultra 3 to watchOS 27. Never installed any betas on it.

    Tried to set a timer via Siri

    after a spinner for several seconds:

    "Cannot set a timer because the Clock app is not installed on this device."

    F to the ninth heck whoever is in charge of that crap at Apple.

    by Razengan
  • Apple Intelligence broke the ability for Siri to run a shortcut that I use daily. I have a shortcut named, "What's for dinner?" I used to be able to activate Siri and says, "What's for dinner?" and it would set off to my personal mealie server, use an API key to fetch the information, then speak the result. Now, Siri looks through my messages and finds a dinner reservation from OpenTable from months ago and declares that to be fact.
    by Jeremy1026
  • Here's my tiny anecdote about Siri. It's so garbage I had to name my garage door "The garage door" because without the extra THE it would often refuse or tell me that device can't be opened.

    Siri needs to be spoonfed the most basic things, and it's not getting any better. Google doesn't get any passes since my Google Home appears to be getting alzheimer's after the Gemini "upgrade".

    by post_break
  • The whole thing is buggered. My latest, in car, on 26.6.2 with phone connected via bluetooth. I hold the voice button on my steering wheel down to activate Siri:

    "Call Fred."

    "You'll need to unlock your phone for that."

    "Call Fred."

    "You'll need to unlock your phone for that."

    "Call Fred."

    "OK, calling Fred."

    Phone is locked in my pocket the entire time. Like, make your damn mind up. Every time I try to call from the car now I have to ask it at least twice, usually three times.

    And a completely baffling one recently, not even anonymizing names, also in car:

    "Call George."

    "OK adding L.S.D. by Hallucinogen to your Liked Songs playlist."

    WTAF.

    by scrumper

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