HomePod A New Level Of Crap for Siri on HomePod

[StumpyBloke]

HomePod can no longer tell me what time it is. If I say “what time is it” it reels off some blurb about a Disney musical track. If I say “what is the time” it says I have found some web results and can show you if you ask from your phone.

What the actual feck? The whole team needs to be sacked!

This is also affecting a friends HomePods so I know it’s not just mine. We are both in the UK. Utter garbage!

 

[JonnyMacx86]

Same happening here in Canada. Fingers crossed that this is just a temporary dip in functionality while iOS 18 gets brought online. 😬🤞🏻

 

[dotme]

Seeing reddit reports of this as well this morning. I'm not surprised. There's a level of ineptitude here that's becoming somewhat normal. Somewhere in the algorithm, I assume it's currently prioritizing Music search results over other functions (meaning it hits Music first, and if it finds a match, it looks no further). I saw something similar for a while last year when it would look at App results before checking HomeKit Scenes, so a few scene commands (that used to work perfectly) instead returned Apple TV app results. That got fixed eventually, but it was pretty frustrating.

 

[klasma]

Same here, mind-boggling. As a workaround, "time in 1 second" or "time in <your location>" works.

 

[actcyclist]

It’s kind of funny how bad it is. We’ve had talking clocks for decades, I had a push button one as a kid in the 80s.

i think I’ll turn Siri off, i can’t handle its stupidity anymore,