This, what a frustrating experience. It used to work before a lot better.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.
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.