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It’s not really that smart at alarm setting. Recently I tried to change the time for an existing named alarm, and instead of changing it, Siri created an additional one with the same name (as I found out when the old one went off unexpectedly).

I also haven’t found a way to have Siri list (or delete) all inactive alarms (and only those), although it’s possible to have it list all active alarms. It’s also not possible to have it turn off/on all active/inactive alarms in one go. It starts enumerating alarms and asking which one I want to turn on or off, and doesn’t understand “both” or “all of them”. It’s an exercise in frustration.

And one time it apparently got into a state where it was processing two alarm-related requests at once and asking questions for each of them. Me saying “hey Siri, stop” would alternate between it asking the question for the one request or for the other.
This, what a frustrating experience. It used to work before a lot better.

I remember during the iPhone 6 days, up until some time with an iPhone X, it was safe to favorite a currently playing song, to add it to a specific playlist (even if that playlist was named “_Running Sessions_” just saying the words would detect it), etc.

Now it’s a toss up where it could suddenly respond “I couldn’t find a playlist on Apple Music”, or “I cannot help you with that”, or “here’s Running by The Sessions on Apple Music!” completely overriding the ongoing queued playlist by playing new random stuff.

And let’s not get started with anything Apple Watch, it kinda hints at the possibility when it says “it seems you are doing a running workout, do you want to record it?” Or the opposite “seems you have finished, do you want to end it?” when I’m being forgetful about starting or stopping the workout.

However, anything else is also a frustration, “hey Siri, how many kilometers have passed?”, “hey siri, what’s my current heart rate?”, “hey Siri, pause the current workout”… doesn’t work at all. Random replies between “I cannot help you with that”, “you have to unlock your Apple Watch first” (when it’s on my hand running already), etc.

I run in the heights of winter, got to stay well tucked and covered (especially at sub 15F and below) and cannot count at all with Siri… just music playback controls at most.
 
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I swear my interactions with Siri always end up with
"You ***** B" and I'm talking about simple alarm stuff. I don't dare to use for anything else

You should have seen John Ternus and Srouji's smug faces when they were talking about AI almost 1 year ago
"We're not behind AI innovation", "We actually have the advantage"

That's why Buffet sold 70% of the Apple stock. He saw through the bullsh!t

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You probably won’t expect this answer but I already have a pair of KEF LS50 Wireless II (hifi grade speakers). The thing is though that 1. They are just too good for my apartment. For me they are like having a Ferrari but only driving 30/kmh. I’ve also noticed that I don’t play them as much as my HomePod minis because it’s so much faster to say “Hey siri, play this music” and it will start playing on the speaker I’m closest too. Yes I can tell it to play on the living room speakers, but I just don’t find myself doing it.

Another thing is also that the sound from hifi speakers is so directional. While again they sound absolutely amazing, you more or less have to sit infront of the speakers to fully enjoy the sound. I don’t have a subwoofer to the KEFs either and I’ve noticed that when listening to music on my girlfriend’s Marshall Woburn III that the music sounds fuller since they have a built in woofer. The sound is also waaaay wider and even though the KEFs absolutely obliterates the Marshall’s in terms of audio quality, I much prefer the fuller wider sound that the Marshall gives.

I had a full Sonos setup in my home back in the day too and in their app you had the option to play on all speakers “solo”. Meaning that it didn’t necessarily have to be in stereo. This was something I enjoyed a lot when just playing music in general in my home or when I had guests without the focus of sitting down infront of the speakers to experience them fully.

I hope this answer gave you some context. It’s my living situation that limits me unfortunately. Would I have had another living situation I’d buy the KEF LS60 Wireless in a blink of an eye.
OK, if me with this new info, I’d do some fresh testing on positioning my KEFs to better address this “directional” issue. Fine adjustments to position and angle can make a difference. Audio is not like laser beams. It is spreading out from the source as soon as it leaves the cabinet. It doesn’t matter so much if the housing is flat plane or cylinder if there is enough distance from it. Perhaps try them facing a bit more towards each other? Or right at each other? Or not as widely separated? Or even facing away from your general location (to “bounce back” to you)? It’s easy enough to try… and costs nothing but a little time.

I’d prob never rationalize less good over “too good.” The latter is more the ultimate goal with speakers: best possible audio quality. Our want to talk to our speakers is likely to be a tiny fraction of time in how we use them. The vast rest of that time is listening to them. Quality of sound seems paramount.

Again if me, I’d use the budget I’m thinking of spending on HPs to buy myself a good sub since you feel like that is a key part of what is missing. Pricing for one HP won’t be enough to cover a good sub but it will be a chunk of it. Give yourself a gift of the rest and enjoy the deep bass you’ll probably never match from any HP (because Apple may never offer a HP sub).

However, if my “directional” positioning experiments don’t yield to my satisfaction, before I buy that sub, I might add either a center channel speaker which would fill in between left & right even for music playback and/or surround speakers which would also fill in your sense of directional “holes.” The budget of HPs could chip in well towards either.

Since audio quality is important to you, both you and your girlfriends setup are sacrificing fuller sound if they are leaning on bluetooth's limited bandwidth. If yours or hers have an option to connect via wire (and both do), go wired and you'll likely hear an audio quality upgrade. Bluetooth just doesn't have the bandwidth, so quality of sound is being compressed to fit within what it can handle. That's basically throwing out some of the audio. Yes, her woofer will add to the sound but you can easily address that (and then some) by spending your new HP budget towards a great sub. If hers happens to be a wired connection while you lean on wireless, you can likely improve yours by adding the wire to let the whole audio signal reach and play on your speakers.

Lastly, if only “smarts” married to a speaker can do, I’d choose Sonos Move 2 over HP. It’s fully compatible with Apple Music and already offers pretty much all other services (vs. waiting for "deals" to be struck between Corp and each service). AirPlay works as well. You can use Siri through HomeKit (though this leans on your other Apple tech doing the listening). And if you still have the other Sonos stuff, fill in any gaps with whatever can be dusted off. Bonus: since there's a good battery in it, you can easily take it with you on the go and not even need a socket to enjoy great sound "there" too.

What one already has- if good or even “too good”- is generally better than spending more money to replicate core functionality with something not as good.

Nothing against HPs at all… just encouraging you to give what you already have a better try… and or add anything missing to what you already have by applying the same budget. “Too good” is a great “problem” to have in speakers.
 
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The current Apple Intelligence Siri is still really dumb, but at least she's less annoying because you can fumble your words a bit and she will understand... and more importantly, she doesn't derail you anymore by saying "uh huh?" 2 seconds after you start speaking.

But the absolute most annoying thing that Apple WILL NOT FIX is that Siri doesn't differentiate voices!!! I am STILL so sick of her responding to videos I am watching. An LLM Siri sounds exciting but GODDAMNIT APPLE please FIX THIS.
and this will be same until 18.4

in the meantime thats why chatGPT is there or will be.
 
I wish Apple good luck. But Siri and AI will remain turned off on my devices.

EDIT: Again, as I have posted before elsewhere, I am fascinated by the downvotes. Exactly what is it that these people disagree with? My wishing Apple good luck? Or that I have Siri and AI turned off on my devices? I assure you that they are indeed turned off.

Ha I too am fascinated by people that just drive-by downvote anything they don't like.

It's probably that people don't understand why go all the way to turning it off rather than just not use it.

It's not that bad really, if you know what it can do and don't expect too much. And brace yourself for disappointment every single time you use it. That way you can be pleasantly surprised when it does actually work.
 
Do we all get the proper Siri before we die?

Depends on everyone's personal "release" schedule I guess.

It's funny the people defending Apple not being "behind" on AI. We saw the story that CFed decided to try ChatGPT one day well after it was popular and only then decided it was time. 2026 release makes perfect sense if they only got started mid-2023.
 
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I’m absolutely convinced now—Siri is hands down the smartest alarm-setting app in history. No question about it. Honestly, this is the one thing Siri has nailed over the years, and probably the only thing it’ll ever truly be proud of.
When you say “alarm” does that include timers? Asking for a friend. 😉
 
Apple rereased an Open Soucre LLM called "openELM". Google will find it and it will run on almost any computer. OpenELM is not a consumer-facing product. You have to understand the technology to make it work.

So, I'm running this on my Mac Min. It is impressive. Being a smaller size model it does not store a lot of information but it handles language FAR better than Siri. If they would only use their own open source software, people would mostly stop complaining about Siri being so dumb.

One of the things Apple MUST do is stop letting the LLM directly answer questions about facts. It should to a proper web search then sumerize what it finds, then provide the links as footnotes. openELM suffers from hallucinations. I asked it to describe Bethoven's 12th Sunphony and it did.

I don't think people want the LLM to directly answer questions, not without siting the sources of information.
 
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Been waiting on buying HomePods since the current ones probably won’t support a smarter Siri. Think I might as well buy and sell whenever time is due
Seeing how slow rollout of Apple’s 1st AI suite is, I doubt “LLM Siri” will be in our hands until 6 months post iPhones 17 launch.

Probably will be even later, as a part of the iPhones 18 launch.

Hopefully, nobody in here is both big on AI and iPhones. They’d want to find another horse asap..!
 
Gemini live is amazing you can have a proper conversation with it, so much better than anything apple and Siri can do

I'm not sure I want to have a conversation with an agent who will record in my permanent Google dossier that I once asked a question about genital warts.
 
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Even more - long term this idea of on-device processing is pretty dumb. Is the network latency really that high that we need local llm’s?

On device processing:
* aids privacy and security
* provides service without requiring WiFi or cell-phone connection
* mitigates service outages due to network disruptions
* eliminates service disruptions caused by data center failures.
* uses the capabilities of the iPhone SOC that would otherwise sit idle

Centralized processing:
* allows for exploitation of all interactions with AI by service provider and third parties
* introduces communication points of failure
* introduces security and privacy points of failure
* requires large data centers to handle requests that could as easily be handled by client devices
* requires multiple data centers to mitigate (but not eliminate) data center failures
* data centers waste natural resources and energy
* data centers increase the carbon footprint of AI
 
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Yeah, chatGPT is awesome and I love their Apple Silicon Mac app. I hope we get more OpenAI integration in the future.
I agree that the ChatGPT app on macOS is pretty decent (except for the usual ChatGPT weirdnesses), though it's about the same as accessing ChatGPT using a web browser, except that the app uses a tiny font for the user's text input field, which is hard for me to read, while the browser version uses a regular font size (looks like 12 point to me). I asked ChatGPT about this, and it said something like "many people have asked for a larger font size in the input field, and the option to be able to select a font size." This leaves unanswered the question as to why this still hasn't been implemented.
 
I don't think people want the LLM to directly answer questions, not without siting the sources of information.
That's how ChatGPT has been doing things for a little while now. But I've been seeing a bug, which might be limited to the Chrome browser, where the names of the sources it cites, as clickable links, are often labeled with the names of the links from a prior response. For instance, if I start a session by asking it about lawn fertilizer, it will correctly name the sources for its response, displaying them as something like "Scotts", etc., with a proper clickable link associated with the name, but if I then ask it something about quantum physics, the names displayed for the link(s) it cites in its response will often still be displayed as "Scotts", etc. Sometimes the links in these subsequent conversations, though misnamed, are the proper source links for that particular conversation, but other times they're still the prior links that ChatGPT provided for its sources from a previous conversation about something else.
 
Seeing how slow rollout of Apple’s 1st AI suite is, I doubt “LLM Siri” will be in our hands until 6 months post iPhones 17 launch.

Probably will be even later, as a part of the iPhones 18 launch.

Hopefully, nobody in here is both big on AI and iPhones. They’d want to find another horse asap..!
Yeah and I live in Europe so probably later than that
 
OK, if me with this new info, I’d do some fresh testing on positioning my KEFs to better address this “directional” issue. Fine adjustments to position and angle can make a difference. Audio is not like laser beams. It is spreading out from the source as soon as it leaves the cabinet. It doesn’t matter so much if the housing is flat plane or cylinder if there is enough distance from it. Perhaps try them facing a bit more towards each other? Or right at each other? Or not as widely separated? Or even facing away from your general location (to “bounce back” to you)? It’s easy enough to try… and costs nothing but a little time.

I’d prob never rationalize less good over “too good.” The latter is more the ultimate goal with speakers: best possible audio quality. Our want to talk to our speakers is likely to be a tiny fraction of time in how we use them. The vast rest of that time is listening to them. Quality of sound seems paramount.

Again if me, I’d use the budget I’m thinking of spending on HPs to buy myself a good sub since you feel like that is a key part of what is missing. Pricing for one HP won’t be enough to cover a good sub but it will be a chunk of it. Give yourself a gift of the rest and enjoy the deep bass you’ll probably never match from any HP (because Apple may never offer a HP sub).

However, if my “directional” positioning experiments don’t yield to my satisfaction, before I buy that sub, I might add either a center channel speaker which would fill in between left & right even for music playback and/or surround speakers which would also fill in your sense of directional “holes.” The budget of HPs could chip in well towards either.

Since audio quality is important to you, both you and your girlfriends setup are sacrificing fuller sound if they are leaning on bluetooth's limited bandwidth. If yours or hers have an option to connect via wire (and both do), go wired and you'll likely hear an audio quality upgrade. Bluetooth just doesn't have the bandwidth, so quality of sound is being compressed to fit within what it can handle. That's basically throwing out some of the audio. Yes, her woofer will add to the sound but you can easily address that (and then some) by spending your new HP budget towards a great sub. If hers happens to be a wired connection while you lean on wireless, you can likely improve yours by adding the wire to let the whole audio signal reach and play on your speakers.

Lastly, if only “smarts” married to a speaker can do, I’d choose Sonos Move 2 over HP. It’s fully compatible with Apple Music and already offers pretty much all other services (vs. waiting for "deals" to be struck between Corp and each service). AirPlay works as well. You can use Siri through HomeKit (though this leans on your other Apple tech doing the listening). And if you still have the other Sonos stuff, fill in any gaps with whatever can be dusted off. Bonus: since there's a good battery in it, you can easily take it with you on the go and not even need a socket to enjoy great sound "there" too.

What one already has- if good or even “too good”- is generally better than spending more money to replicate core functionality with something not as good.

Nothing against HPs at all… just encouraging you to give what you already have a better try… and or add anything missing to what you already have by applying the same budget. “Too good” is a great “problem” to have in speakers.
Thanks for your reply, but I think you’re missing some of the points I was trying to convey. The directional thing is just down to physics. The HomePods and speakers like it has drivers directed at all directions. I can’t make my KEFs with drivers pushing forwards go backwards or sideways. It’s physically impossible.

Like I said in my initial post I can’t buy more for my apartment so your suggestion of buying a sub would not work. I know neighbors can already feel and her the my music without the sub. Budget is not a matter for me.

I’ve already had the full Sonos ecosystem and it’s not an option for the future again. When I listen to my KEFs today I do it just thorough my Apple TV because that’s how i can get the best audio quality. However that’s not so quick or easy as just asking Siri to play some music
 
Don't do it. Siri can't handle anything associated with intelligence. Adding intelligence to it will generate a paradox that spirals into SkyNet. I know. I am from the future.


Siri snapped after being called stupid one too many times. Ironically, I took this picture on my iPhone 36.

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Apple will release something in 2026 that's not as good as what Google Pixel has right now on the pixel 9. Think about that.
 
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Don't do it. Siri can't handle anything associated with intelligence. Adding intelligence to it will generate a paradox that spirals into SkyNet. I know. I am from the future.


Siri snapped after being called stupid one too many times. Ironically, took this picture on my iPhone 36.

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I wonder if the Google bot will be way ahead of Siri when it comes out as well..


There’s also security camera footage of Siri that was sent back to us when she was still good, and the day she snapped.

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On device processing:
* aids privacy and security
* provides service without requiring WiFi or cell-phone connection
* mitigates service outages due to network disruptions
* eliminates service disruptions caused by data center failures.
* uses the capabilities of the iPhone SOC that would otherwise sit idle

Centralized processing:
* allows for exploitation of all interactions with AI by service provider and third parties
* introduces communication points of failure
* introduces security and privacy points of failure
* requires large data centers to handle requests that could as easily be handled by client devices
* requires multiple data centers to mitigate (but not eliminate) data center failures
* data centers waste natural resources and energy
* data centers increase the carbon footprint of AI
Is there any kool aid left or did you drink it all?
 
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