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Here's What's Changing With Siri in 2025
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Do you have “Always show request” turned on? that will show on screen in text what Siri heard from you. It will give you some feedback. Often Siri can understand the words properly but then the resulting action goes a different turn. I’m looking forward to a Siri with more LLM built in so it can do a better job of interpreting our requests. that appears to be 6-18 months away.
I really don’t want any of this - think I’ll stick to iOS 17 until Tim says it’s time to update for “security.”
Siri and AI is the most overhyped and underdelivering feature Apple has ever introduced. It's unusable.
I don't want the stupid #%#%)#% to be contextually away of sentences, learn how to use punctuation and the proper version of a word with more than one spelling, and not be deafer than Hellen Keller when using dictation.
Forget the other stuff - fix this basic thing!!!
Forget the other stuff - fix this basic thing!!!
So you don't really use it much is what I am hearing. Certainly not for dictation or knowledge based questions.
A timer or change a song she's not so bad - clinical retardation level with everything else.
Useless as usual. Can't even complete my request to play my Apple Music playlists with HomePods since 18.2 update.
I am slowly walking away from Apple.
For what I am wanting to do, Apple is no longer in the market (ie I run OSX servers for various tasks), so I am being forced into Linux / RaspberryPi.
If/When my iPhone 11 dies I will have to carefully consider my needs, I can not justify the Apple expense for what I do, so it may be 2nd hand or alternatives what ever they may be at the time.
Moving away from "home" to zigbee/Hubitat, so far ahead of Home/Matter its not funny.
Books is such as bast@rd child that I gave up adding anything new , Calibre is again light years ahead of Apple, so I will be buying an eReader and just use the iPad as a front end to my Hubitat.
Killed off all of our subscriptions (Netflix et al), but never had any Apple ones.
100% of my music has been ripped from CDs, 2nd hand I get them for $2 and I never have to worry about them changing the lease like you do with digital purchases.
I have an M3 16" MBP which should last until I retire.
My Mac Minis are 2011, my iMac is 2009
iWatch is an 8, nothing on the new ones is of interest
ATV, I have a 4 and a 4k , because I refuse to let my "smart tv" connect to the web, don't need a spy in the house.
I have owned Macs since the 512KE but I am not a fanboi nor do I think these are fashion items, as far as I am concerned fashion is just marketing where you let other people dictate what you spend your money on year after year, so that's a firm NO from me.
I can't even ask Siri to play music on my phone in a playlist or by artist or album. How can it get anything else more complicated correct?
I used Siri a few times to get to a friends house because of road work and changing traffic patterns. Even though the distance isn't far, taking the wrong route can turn a 20 minute drive in to a 40 minute one. Unfortunately when ever I ask Siri for directions to Sean's house (who's in my contacts) it routinely gives me directions to an optometrist, two states away. 🙄
I really have never had that issue with Apple Maps, but if I do in the future, I will now know to use Google Maps. My issue is that Google Maps seems difficult to use on iOS, but it could be an issue to me only.Prefer and which is best can be 2 different things. I too prefer Apple Maps. It's much more attractive, etc. But when I really need to get to the right place, Google Maps tends to win on location accuracy. Apple Maps will beautifully lead me to the wrong destination but Google mostly gets me to the right place.
Competition- specifically Spotify- vs. Apple Music delivers "smarter" guesses at what users want to hear. I think towards all of us know it's better at that but some of us deny it because we need the favorite brand to win in all such contests. I think Apple could can water and some would claim that it is the superior water to all waters.
So to "understand this take" focus on the main purpose of a Map or the main use of a Music streamer, regardless of brand. I think that is to get a traveler to the correct destination as often as possible (Google for the win with better data) or play music the listener will like vs. skewing- it seems- to the hip hop genre a bit more than anything else. If we want to filter something through lenses that most favor Apple's version, Apple's version will win. For example, which voice assistant is best at pointing people to the web for whatever they ask of it? Siri is clearly the far & away winner at that. No assistant dos that better.
As for Apple Music and Spotify, I use them both. Apple Music for better quality audio and Spotify for other types of music and podcasts. I think both are lacking, I just use Apple Music more for music because of the better sound.
To be fair, I only use Siri to control devices, and even then it is sparing. Amazon Alexa is equally unimpressive. These assistants are cumbersome and it's much quicker if I just do things myself on either my PC or phone. Hopefully they will be capable of much more in the future.
I use Sir for short dictation and it is acceptable. I would never try to use it for knowledge based questions. All it can do is use web searches for that kind of thing and either give you “some” answer or send you to Google.
I do use Siri for light switches, timers, playing music, and similar simple automation. That is within the capabilities of the older gen assistants. I look forward to an assistant that actually incorporates an LLM to better handle more complex tasks.
You can definitely see how much more capable it is with 18.1. Look at the screenshot attached!
Dumber than a rock.
Not to mention the experience with HomePod. If you don’t yell it doesn’t even listen, it used to be really good at that. Then if you yell your phone goes off instead.
Not to mention how many times it goes “hmmmmm I’m having troubles with the connection” or “who’s speaking?”.
Absolutely pathetic.
Dumber than a rock.
Not to mention the experience with HomePod. If you don’t yell it doesn’t even listen, it used to be really good at that. Then if you yell your phone goes off instead.
Not to mention how many times it goes “hmmmmm I’m having troubles with the connection” or “who’s speaking?”.
Absolutely pathetic.
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The sad thing is that it didn’t use to be like this. I was using Alexa from 2014 to 2018 when I got the OG HomePods. I remember being able to whisper in a noisy room and Siri would hear me. Between then and now, Apple turned down the processing either locally or in the cloud because these damn HomePods ignore me half the time and the rest of the time, they ask me who I am…so frustrating.
100% agree and same experience here. My wife thinks I yell and swear at Siri more than I yell at Tesla when I leave voice notes in the car for how FSD 12.5.4.2 messes up!
Yes and this is just the beginning of the list of issues I constantly have across the devices. I was actually talking yesterday to a colleague about how rubbish macOS turned into, then I came home, switched Mac user account and the menu bar crashed, not responding. Apps were not responding properly but only to certain commands, I had to log back into my partner's account, save everything, force a reboot, just so she could get upset at me half an hour later because she had pages open in safari that could not be reopened with the reopen all windows from last session feature. Just a joke.
Regarding iPhone, same mess, CarPlay glitching, Siri not working, phone calls dropping. I am seriously considering a Google Pixel as next phone and see if I can get out of this pile of expensive rubbish ecosystem.
I will believe it when I see it. I am still on iOS 17 but Siri has gotten worse for me over the years. "Siri, text my wife" and the response lately has been like "Sure, what is your wife's name?" -- umm yeah... it has worked in the past fine but what has changed? Nothing I've done. Blows my mind after all these years it has seemed to have gotten worse.