Depending from where you start - if you leave home with your phone already at 75-80 - 20% drain will not let you make it thru the day. I still think this should be enabled with a big warning of possible battery drain so that the person doesn't show up at a genius bar the next day.
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Apple's 'Hey Siri' Feature in iOS 9 Uses Individualized Voice Recognition
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I've an iPhone 6 on iOS 9.1 public beta and have had alway on "hey Siri" since iOS 9 public beta 1.
I was jail broken previous to this and had a tweak to do it so maybe that had something to do with it?
I was jail broken previous to this and had a tweak to do it so maybe that had something to do with it?
The iPhone 6S and 6S Plus have extra hardware to support this feature without draining the battery.
cirrus Logic new smart audio codec with voice processing embedded software.
In addition the 6S and 6S Plus have a fourth microphone so if you lay your phone down or it's in a purse, etc it is more likely to not have all Mic's blocked.
Earlier models do not have the latest cirrus logic hardware and require the device to be plugged in to avoid draining the battery
cirrus Logic new smart audio codec with voice processing embedded software.
In addition the 6S and 6S Plus have a fourth microphone so if you lay your phone down or it's in a purse, etc it is more likely to not have all Mic's blocked.
Earlier models do not have the latest cirrus logic hardware and require the device to be plugged in to avoid draining the battery
What would be really cool is if Siri could lock out certain personal information if you are not the one using the phone. Such as if you lose your phone and don't want to let Siri read texts or emails or whatever to anyone.
Problem of user distinction solved, device distinction still a problem:
If I have two devices with hey Siri activated in the same area, both react... A possible solution would be that if two devices (with same iCloud account) get activated by the voice command, each one would give that information to the other devices before Siri reacts, and then determine the nearest by the voices level each device receives. Then only the nearest could respond.
Another option, instead of voice level detection could be to let Siri ask you on each device simultaneously which one was meant by asking for the device type (iPad, iPhone, etc...): "On what device do you want to ask me something?" - "iPad"
A last idea would be to let Siri ask first from the nearest device "did you mean me?" If users answers "yes", the user could go on with further commands on that device, or if he answers "no", the next device would ask the same question and so on ...
Just a thought, but maybe I am the only one with this "problem"
That's an excellent idea! Apple should use it. As it is, I now have Hey Siri only enabled on my iPhone because I talk to it when I'm in bed and the phone is docked: "Hey Siri, wake me up at 9AM". I'd love to have all my devices, including the new AppleTV all listen in as mics spread around the house and then have the nearest one respond.
Bummer. I mess with my wife sometimes by saying "Hey Siri" while we are both in bed which causes both our phones respond. Though last time she responded "tell Bob to f**k off", to which Siri responded by drafting an iMessage to my dad with that text in it.
I wondered how they would handle this. I had the thought yesterday that if my wife ever upgrades her iPhone, it could be trouble. Furthermore I had already made plans to troll everyone I know. Shucks!
I want to be able to unlock my iPhone with my voice: "Computer, unlock access to the iPhone, command authorization code Picard-Epsilon-7-9-3." Yeah—my wife and I have been watching the entire TNG series again on Netflix, haha. They don't make TV like that any more.
I want to be able to unlock my iPhone with my voice: "Computer, unlock access to the iPhone, command authorization code Picard-Epsilon-7-9-3." Yeah—my wife and I have been watching the entire TNG series again on Netflix, haha. They don't make TV like that any more.
No. No you're not. This is right up there with the Amazon Echo and "Ok Google". The Echo in particular freaks me out. There's people here on the forum who bragged about buying one for every room in their house. I wonder if they have decided to forgo blinds and curtains, and stop wearing clothes too.
I've been waiting for this phone since the contract on my iPhone 5 ran out months ago. Now I'm having second thoughts about buying one. I want a great sounding phone, versatile text, and a good web browsing experience. I don't need something that watches everything I do to help me get through my day. Its like the phone version of Clippy. And people just aren't getting it - they're putting their entire lives in someone else's care, and that someone may or may not hand all that life over to the feds.
Yes, every time someone on TV says "serious", apparently the Hey is not required at all.
Yeah... mine's set to a dude's voice so it sounds like Alfred. Alfred wouldn't want to be called a "she".
Or you can buy the phone and choose not to enable always-on Siri...
Also, how did Clippy actually watch everything you did, other than just blurt out random "helpful" advice about your Office document?
The sentence I had previous to that should give you better context:
"..something that watches everything I do to help me get through my day."
Clippy, at least within Word, would pop up at the oddest moments offering advice often after misinterpreting what people were trying to do. From what I've read here it seems that Siri likes to pop up at random times after misinterpreting something that sounds slightly like "Hey Siri".
I just don't like any of these attempts at building a digital assistant. I don't like that the processing is done on a cloud server somewhere, so someone at some point in the chain can gain access to peoples' lives. Critics of privacy tend to respond to these concerns with "so what do you have to hide?". I think that should be obvious, but if not, then people need to look into the abuses possible in a police state which has complete information control. I would point people to the writings of William Bradford, a former West Point instructor. He has presented position papers under government commission that people who write things critical of the government should be treated as enemy combatants and should suffer escalating consequences, up to and including summary execution without trial. This is primarily directed at people in education at the college level, and the press, but it could be expanded to the citizenry at large.
That is what I fear.
Whenever I have my doubts about Apple features I end up seeing things like that. People who read my posts will observe that my number one concern with any technology feature is that it can be used to destroy privacy and thereby control people. I used to be very disdainful of FaceTime. I thought that video calling was a gimmick at best, at worst it provides a way for to gather facial recognition data. Then I watched as one of my customers, a deaf lady, used her iPhone to communicate via ASL using the FaceTime camera. It was an emotional moment for me, as I saw the Jobsian basis to the feature instead of the harm it could be put to. Steve's number one thing in everything he guided since 1997 was to help people communicate.
So thats the good with the bad, I guess.
Hmm, this all seems vaguely familiar…
Between that and Pokémon GO, iOS is shaping up to become slightly nostalgic for '00s gammers.
Or the fact Android has had this since 2013.
I use the Untethered Hey Siri jailbreak tweak quite often on my 6 Plus. It doesn't appear to use a significant amount of battery.
So I imagine this is mainly Apple trying to differentiate its new phones when the product is already quite mature - there just isn't much reason to upgrade from generation to generation anymore. .
Unless you jailbreak and use a tweak that allows you to use Hey Siri unplugged. I tried it and did not like it.
Following the release of the first public beta for iOS 9.1 yesterday, along with the GM version on Wednesday, a few of the testers have come across a new feature introduced in the update. Somewhere in the Settings app, it appears that Apple has quietly added a set-up process for the new "Hey Siri" feature coming to the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, thanks to a built-in M9 motion coprocessor that enables the phones' always-on functionality.
Although unconfirmed by Apple, the discovery in iOS 9.1 suggests that Siri will be able to begin detecting specific user voices and determine whether or not the owner of the iPhone in question is speaking to her. Similar in vein to the way Apple aimed its Touch ID feature to work better and better the more you unlocked an iPhone using the fingerprint scanning sensor, it seems the set-up process will guide users into stating words or phrases to better acclimate Siri with each iPhone owner.
Found in General > Siri > Allow 'Hey Siri', the new always-on feature is the next step-up in the technology by Apple, allowing users to ask Siri questions or make changes within the iPhone's apps by simply stating "Hey Siri" near the iPhone. The new set-up process discovered today could also just be a way for Siri to work better detecting voices in general, and not be specific to each user. With the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus launching in just two weeks, it won't be long until everyone can find out for themselves.
Thanks Alan and Daniel!
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I have updated my iPad mini and iPhone 6+ and "hey siri" does not work. you can push the button and it works but "hey siri" is out to lunch. I completed the set up on both devices with no errors.