Apple Shortening 'Hey Siri' to 'Siri' Across iPhone, Mac, and Other Devices

[MacRumors]

Apple today at WWDC announced that it is simplifying the voice command to invoke Siri across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, HomePod, and other devices. Instead of "Hey Siri," users will now simply be able to simply say "Siri" to activate the voice assistant.

After activating Siri, users can issue multiple commands in succession without needing to reactivate the assistant, according to Apple.

The shorter "Siri" command will be supported on any iPhone and iPad that can run iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. For the Mac and AirPods, however, Apple says the feature will be limited to Macs with Apple silicon and the second-generation AirPods Pro.

The shorter "Siri" command is one of several new features introduced across iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma. The software updates will be available as developer betas starting today, and will be publicly released later this year.

Article Link: Apple Shortening 'Hey Siri' to 'Siri' Across iPhone, Mac, and Other Devices

 

[hsoj1006]

We've been trained to say Hey Siri....hopefully it won't be too much of a curve to change it up.

 

[nelloismello]

You can add all these cool features, but that won't stop Siri from saying "Hmmm... I don't understand"

 

[Daedalus65]

Making things just one level tricker in Carson Daily’s house…

 

[robd003]

The nice part about "Hey Siri" was that it wouldn't have false positive triggers that often. I fear that "Siri" is going to be picked up a LOT more in random conversations.

 

[revjoel]

My sister's name is Sheri and it's close enough to get picked up when I say "Hey Sheri". She may have to change her name.

 

[Westside guy]

Apple today at WWDC announced that it is simplifying the voice command to invoke Siri across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, HomePod, and other devices. Instead of "Hey Siri," users will now simply be able to simply say "Siri" to activate the voice assistant.

Great! That'll solve everything!

 

[McWetty]

Sorry, but this is a terrible change. I hope we get a choice.

 

[Greg.]

Haven't watched the full keynote yet... Did they announce any upgrades to Siri's functionality leveraging AI?

 

[McWetty]

My sister's name is Sheri and it's close enough to get picked up when I say "Hey Sheri". She may have to change her name.

I had the same issue with Alexa and my son Alex.

“Alex, uh… open the door.” “I can’t open the door, Dave”.

 

[besler3035]

Hopefully "Hey Siri" will still work. As someone with a speech impediment, saying just "Siri" is much more difficult than putting "Hey" in front of it.

 

[DestructoTim]

Man I know Intel processors are are inefficient, but I never thought they would be outclassed by my AirPods 😂

 

[NightFlight]

Who cares about this, just make Siri better. It's useless compared to Assistant right now.

 

[jayducharme]

I fear that this is going to be a hot mess.

 

[ndouglas]

You can add all these cool features, but that won't stop Siri from saying "Hmmm... I don't understand"

So true… also reading this headline reminds me how often Siri thinks she’s been summoned when I didn’t say “hey siri” at all… makes me think that‘s going to get even more frequent with just “Siri…” … sigh..

the translate feature is cool, outside that and a few other things I can’t help feeling like Siri‘s accuracy w/ many aspects has not developed much from when it was just called “voice recognition,” circa Iphone 3…

 

[RickDEGH]

Siri
Mhm
Can you just be better?
Sorry, I can’t do that.

 

[rforno]

So Siri is still useless and stupid, only now you don't need to say 'Hey' to get its attention.

That's courage, Cupertino-style.

 

[ndouglas]

The nice part about "Hey Siri" was that it wouldn't have false positive triggers that often. I fear that "Siri" is going to be picked up a LOT more in random conversations.

Lol you beat me to it… this happens to me way too regularly already

 

[foobarbaz]

We've been trained to say Hey Siri....hopefully it won't be too much of a curve to change it up.

Do you think it won't answer if you add the Hey?

 

[FelixDerKater]

Is there a way to prevent YouTube tutorials and other videos from triggering it?

 

[boak]

Different devices having different trigger word(s)?

THIS IS HILARIOUS (in a really bad way)

 

[MysticCow]

Let's just hope it doesn't screw up when you say "serious," "serial," "cereal," etc...

 

[Rychiar]

good. The hey always made it feel awkward to say around people.

 

[macduke]

Great, even more false positives. It's not even good enough yet with "Hey Siri", so why would they do this?

 

[mattkowalski]

I’m not sure this was ever the most pressing problem to address with Siri!

It’s like making a car better by giving it a heated steering wheel. How about the engine?