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Here's What's Changing With Siri in 2025
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Siri seems to be better with my 16 Pro. Does Siri hear me better because the microphones are better in the 16 Pro?
No kidding. Every psychopath advertiser (OK, that was redundant) will be going nuts to serve ads based on what you are doing this second. Just like when you are typing and predictive text is trying figure out what the current word is going to be. Every key you type will spam ads based on the probability of the final word.
Stuff from 13 years ago still doesn't work
If you own a 14 or older iPhone? Nothing.
‘Member when we used to brag about how Apple didn’t stratify its products the way Android did?
‘Member?
‘Member when we used to brag about how Apple didn’t stratify its products the way Android did?
‘Member?
I just broke up with that crazy beeatch Siri earlier tonight and transferred all my data over to a brand new Pixel 9 pro xl. Gemini even helped out with the contacts transfer and the iCloud batch download/import. So far, so good. Almost 30 years of Apple loyalty from Mac SE thru iMac Pro/minis, almost all iPhones, AirPods out the arse (including the max cost, minimal performing MAX), HomePods in drawers, watches overhyped, etc, etc. I am finally free of the walled technical woke dystopian isolation of Cook’s overpriced fantasyland. Last remaining piece of Apple gear in my possession is this iPad Pro upon which I’m typing and like. Free at last, free at last.
I have no issues with Siri. It works fine on all of my HomePods. And on my iPhone for Apple CarPlay.
Actually, no - I don't remember that. Apple has always artificially restricted some features to their newest products.
Waiitng to see how much Siri will improve with on screen awareness. As for any new features beyond that, expecting it to be available only in 2026, though it will be previewed at WWDC 2025.
The rollout of these features has been confusing and hard to keep track of. When I invoke Siri, my whole screen wobbles and gets a glowing ring around it, but the onsceeen awareness features aren’t available yet? Then why does it have such a dramatic new animation just to tell me the weather?
I guess 99,9% of these improvements will be US English-Siri exclusives. Trickling down to other English variants within a year and then taking a decade or longer to become available for the rest of the world.
I have no idea why Apple doesn’t use its resources to simultaneously develop and translate its features.
But here we are, and I’m stuck with Dutch Siri that didn’t evolve since 2016.
I have no idea why Apple doesn’t use its resources to simultaneously develop and translate its features.
But here we are, and I’m stuck with Dutch Siri that didn’t evolve since 2016.
I’m doubtful they will. Because they’d more then 10 years to make Siri useful. iOS 18 promised a better Siri, now they’re talking about iOS 19. Not from the start but in later updates in 2026. Apple has become the Microsoft from the early days when they always promised and never delivered. Now the tables are turned. Microsoft is delivering Mac like products with touchscreens and Apple has clippy.
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They only changed one thing…
Sorry, I can’t help you with that but this is what I found on the internet…
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You want me to use ChatGPT for that?
It took them a whole year to change that 😅
Well, this week I asked Siri “Navigate to Peebles”; the reply was “Getting directions to Arbroath” (100 miles from Peebles). I then asked to get directions to a name of someone in Peebles from my contacts; same reply “Getting directions to Arbroath”. This kind of nonsense is a frequent occurrence on my iPhone 15 Pro Max and 11PM before it.
Android Auto never does this (same car). Siri is a total embarrassment.
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This is the only mention I've seen that refers albeit subtly to Apples agreement to pay out $77m for privacy breaches.
I only use Siri when trying to get it to play songs on the HomePods. It’s often a very trying experience. I don’t (and won’t) have Apple Music but I do have iTunes Match. Getting it to play a particular song which is in my library is often like pulling teeth. “There was a problem with Apple Music” is its constant refrain, or it plays the wrong version, eg a live track rather than the studio version. True AI/ML would realise based on my listening history what I want.
Apple also seems to vary the syntax that needs to be followed when requesting a song yet this doesn’t appear to be published anywhere online. By the time you’ve said the request in the magic order for it to proceed, you’re annoyed and end up asking Siri why it is so useless. This is met by its passive aggressive “that’s not nice’ response…
Apple also seems to vary the syntax that needs to be followed when requesting a song yet this doesn’t appear to be published anywhere online. By the time you’ve said the request in the magic order for it to proceed, you’re annoyed and end up asking Siri why it is so useless. This is met by its passive aggressive “that’s not nice’ response…
Siri is weirdly dependent on where you use it. I tried to get an app that’s only available on the Watch App Store and Siri would not write the word ”glance” in the app store search. I could get it on the 1st try outside the app store but in the search it would be ”glanze”, ”lance”, etc. Siri’s the only way of writing on a series 4 because they took away all the others.
My guess is, search terms are monetized on the app store like everything else. The app I was looking for is from a tiny dev.
Series 4 is obviously not getting any AI features, but if what I assume is true, AI wouldn’t solve the problem anyway, unless the dev pays.
My guess is, search terms are monetized on the app store like everything else. The app I was looking for is from a tiny dev.
Series 4 is obviously not getting any AI features, but if what I assume is true, AI wouldn’t solve the problem anyway, unless the dev pays.