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Any way to TURN OFF Siri's STUPID comments?

NovemberWhiskey said:
If you switch Siri's voice to male, he talks back a lot less.
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Really! That's absolutely ridiculously funny. Can't wait for the feminist response on that one. Imagine training two iPhones to recognize each other's Hey Siri voice and getting the phones into their own conversation. Now that would make a kickass YouTube video.
 
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Yeah,

I have (/had) the same problem. Found this thread and showed it to my wife. as an example of people not answering the thread.

My wife said then: "Didn't you tell siri to stop joking and she stopped?".
Yes, I did. And she stopped joking. But she had now started again.

So I tried it, after a funny, but repetitive siri joke, I said "stop joking". There was no response that indicated she understood. I repeated three-four times polite variants of this.

And no joke for the last five days. Approx. 50 "start timer"s.
 
Behind you 100%, OP. I thought Siri's remarks were clever at first, but they stopped being funny when I found out that they can't be turned off. I develop software for a living, and I would never, EVER think of adding such a childish feature without offering the ability to disable it. Apple is obviously pandering to the masses of simpletons out there who are easily mesmerized by shiny objects and gizmos (and who will pry open their wallets wide to pay for them.)

The iPhone is, on balance, a great device, but Siri's lack of discipline, so to speak, IS a serious flaw.
 
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visitorjm said:
Behind you 100%, OP. I thought Siri's remarks were clever at first, but they stopped being funny when I found out that they can't be turned off. I develop software for a living, and I would never, EVER think of adding such a childish feature without offering the ability to disable it. Apple is obviously pandering to the masses of simpletons out there who are easily mesmerized by shiny objects and gizmos (and who will pry open their wallets wide to pay for them.)

The iPhone is, on balance, a great device, but Siri's lack of discipline, so to speak, IS a serious flaw.
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I have always found a bit or humor is good. Siri does not inject this humor all the time and when she does it does it puts a smile on my face. I have no problem with it but for some I guess Apple needs to add an off switch to stop the grumpy from possibly smiling!
 
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I don't mind that Siri has a sense of humour and find it kinda funny sometimes. But I do agree with the OP that there should be some way to disable their comments.
 
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visitorjm said:
Behind you 100%, OP. I thought Siri's remarks were clever at first, but they stopped being funny when I found out that they can't be turned off. I develop software for a living, and I would never, EVER think of adding such a childish feature without offering the ability to disable it. Apple is obviously pandering to the masses of simpletons out there who are easily mesmerized by shiny objects and gizmos (and who will pry open their wallets wide to pay for them.)

The iPhone is, on balance, a great device, but Siri's lack of discipline, so to speak, IS a serious flaw.
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aces99 said:
I don't mind that Siri has a sense of humour and find it kinda funny sometimes. But I do agree with the OP that there should be some way to disable their comments.
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I'm wondering if more people have tried what one of the earlier posts (quoted below) mentioned to see if that makes a difference for them:

@antonikyrksten said:
Yeah,

I have (/had) the same problem. Found this thread and showed it to my wife. as an example of people not answering the thread.

My wife said then: "Didn't you tell siri to stop joking and she stopped?".
Yes, I did. And she stopped joking. But she had now started again.

So I tried it, after a funny, but repetitive siri joke, I said "stop joking". There was no response that indicated she understood. I repeated three-four times polite variants of this.

And no joke for the last five days. Approx. 50 "start timer"s.
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cmichaelb said:
I'm curious as why anyone would ask Siri the time. The clock is on screen, it's on the lock screen. I;ve never had to so it's a bit curious to me.
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If I'm cooking, or cleaning, or gardening, etc and my hands are dirty/greasy/etc and I don't want to touch my phone, I'll ask Siri for the time. Also, if I'm across the room and not within touching distance of the phone.
 
nope. works fine the way it is.

talk about first world problems. sigh
 
I wish my Siri would be more snarky/joking. I have never gotten those sort of silly responses. I have said "Thank you" to Siri before. And have gotten varied responses from "You're welcome." or "I live to serve". But that's about the extent of the response I typically get from Siri.

I guess I am my own "Disable Siri snarky response" feature. ;)
 
lip5016 said:
I *DID NOT* say it was a flaw.

The problem is that it should be customizable.

It's called an "I" phone.

so "I" should be able to turn that **** off if it's bothering me.
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The "i" in any Apple device refers to Apple - not you.
 
Usually it makes a stupid joke on something it misunderstood me saying. That is beyond annoying. There is a time and place for everything and when I am in a serious work mood, the last thing I need is stupid jokes.
 
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just don't use it. shut siri off. look up things the old fashion way by typing it in.

or hey i can give you a motorola razor

or maybe your gf should get a tan the regular way by going out in the sun for once. the sun is free also.
 
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s15119 said:
nope. works fine the way it is.

talk about first world problems. sigh
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There is a reason we are first world. We focus on problems, not trivial things. SIRI worked OK and they made it worse.

And worse.

Siri requires a short amount of silence before she accepts commands. That is OK.
However, with iOS 10, the iPhone, in some circumstances, turns on the vibrator when Siri is activated. Making a noise, preventing Siri from accepting commands.

Proving that the people working on the iPhone and Siri really do not understand what this is about.

RIP Steve Jobs. I were around the last time he left Apple, this time he will not come back.
 
@antonikyrksten said:
There is a reason we are first world. We focus on problems, not trivial things. SIRI worked OK and they made it worse.

And worse.

Siri requires a short amount of silence before she accepts commands. That is OK.
However, with iOS 10, the iPhone, in some circumstances, turns on the vibrator when Siri is activated. Making a noise, preventing Siri from accepting commands.

Proving that the people working on the iPhone and Siri really do not understand what this is about.

RIP Steve Jobs. I were around the last time he left Apple, this time he will not come back.
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Seems to be fine with iOS 10, just as before.
 
You need to buy an Apple Watch and use the breath function to calm yourself down over little things.
 
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Yoiks. Ten pages of people who are angry that anyone dares to have a different preference from their own.
Ten pages of people demanding that everyone in the world should be their clones. Geez.
Freedom is choices.
Why not allow people choices to work the way they want to work and to have different opinions?
Apple could let us choose to have Siri make comments, choose whether to have the iphone think for them by sorting their photos, creating albums. geotagging and any other feature.
You, too, could have the features you love, and brava. others could use those features or turn them off.
Everybody happy!
 
If there's one thing in life that you can't put and end to, it's "stupid".

Unfortunately, "stupid" will always be there, somewhere.

Not directed at anyone. Just a quick thought on the subject title. lol.

And some of the solutions in this thread are funny. Quite entertaining.


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boldlowe said:
Yoiks. Ten pages of people who are angry that anyone dares to have a different preference from their own.
Ten pages of people demanding that everyone in the world should be their clones. Geez.
Freedom is choices.
Why not allow people choices to work the way they want to work and to have different opinions?
Apple could let us choose to have Siri make comments, choose whether to have the iphone think for them by sorting their photos, creating albums. geotagging and any other feature.
You, too, could have the features you love, and brava. others could use those features or turn them off.
Everybody happy!
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And holy thread resurrection. :eek:
 
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