There needs to be a major update to Siri, it can barley do anything

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    1 year ago

    I honestly heavily doubt Apple are still working on Siri at all. They’ve just accepted it will be garbage, at least for now

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    1 year ago

    They’ll probably upgrade siri with more modern AI next year. They must do it if they don’t want to stay behind the competition.

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    1 year ago

    Siri is on the back-burner. I am positive that they have a modernized Siri utilizing machine learning/AI that will come out in the next few years that blows it out of the water.

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    1 year ago

    Hoping that’s a massive feature of iOS 18. Would improve the phone’s built in assistant as well as the HomeKit setup. Have to wait for WWDC

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    1 year ago

    The OPs complaint seems to have stemmed from Siris inability to discern what time they wanted from their somewhat vague request and responded with a helpful prompt to be more specific their request so they can get the answer they wanted.

    Could Siri have used some personal information about the requestor to give a more accurate answer, first time? Probably.

    Would being able to use personal information about a requestor in order to complete a request be considered a privacy concern, hence something Apple has consciously avoided doing? Also, probably.

    I’ll admit that Siri does have a lot of room for improvement if it’s to complete with other voice assistants but to do that it would have to compromise on some of the privacy principles that underpin a lot of Apple’s software development.

    So there are bound to be some trade-offs when using a privacy-focussed voice assistant vs the alternatives. Personally, I’ll happily accept the trade-offs. But not everyone here is going to feel the same way. 🤷‍♂️

    Which probably goes some way to explain why Siri does a good job of controlling a home but not a lot else. 😅

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        1 year ago

        My siri works fine. Like the person above commented why not just ask what time is it in NY. For instance if I wanted to know the time for pacific time, I would just say "Siri what time is it in LA or some western city.

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        1 year ago

        That’s your subjective opinion.

        Siri does 95% percent of what we need it to in our house, all without being spied on or marketed to.

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    1 year ago

    Siri is awful. Or if you ask her a question “you need to unlock your iPhone first”. She needs to get on the same level as Alexa! Alexa isn’t great, but she’s a heck of a lot better than Siri.

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    1 year ago

    It’s just so damn inconsistent. Sometimes it’ll work sometimes it won’t and you’ll ask it the same exact thing.

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    1 year ago

    Still… Tim Cook says he is going to invest in AI I’m a responsive way… Knowing apple… Siri is going to improve it… like in iOS 3000…

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    1 year ago

    This is the one I hate; “Siri, find me chiropractors nearby.” “Okay, the closest is Blahblahblah. I can call, or give you directions. Which would you like?” “Call.” “Who do you want to call?”

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    1 year ago

    Every “siri is awful” post is some weird as question phrased in a way no human would ever say it.