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"Hey Siri" - iPhone 6S + tagline hint?

Jack Delgado

Jack Delgado

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I did a search on the forums and didn't see this mentioned--does anyone else see the tagline for this year's event being an extremely subtle hint at the fact that the iPhone 6S might have the "always listening" mic for the Hey Siri prompt rather than the has-to-be-charging requirement iPhones have now? When the feature was added, it seemed that the logical next-step was to have that feature available at all times.
 
I think you're reading too much in to it. Besides always on would mean a quicker reduction in battery charge. I don't think that's going to happen.
 
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I've seen plenty of people suggesting that. It might be possible, but it would be difficult to get it to work without compromising battery life too much.
 
Imagine if that was it though?

Here's the setting:
6000 seat auditorium
Sept 2015 product launch
Music starts
Tim comes out
An iPhone 6+ is on stage
Tim says "Hey Siri, what do we have on tap for today?"
Siri says "Nothing Tim, other than I can hear you"
No new phones, no new AppleTV, nothing.
All done.

We leave amazed!
 
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Honest question here, but I've never experienced any battery hit by having "Ok Google" always on, how much battery usage would it affect the iPhone to have it similarly? Anyone with a jailbroken iPhone care to comment?
 
Mr.C said:
By that logic if the battery was improved it would last even longer without "Hey Siri" always being on. I know which I would rather have.
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Correct, I would assume that by disabling the always on "Hey Siri" it would improve overall battery life. I personally do not care for Siri so I agree with you, I would prefer the extra battery life.
 
lagwagon said:
The tag line is referring to Siri improvements in iOS 9, watchOS 2. But mainly adding Siri to AppleTV which can be used as your main hub in your home to do a lot of things.
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This makes more sense to me. Any speculation on how it would work with AppleTV? I'm assuming through the Apple remote app or a new AppleTV release with a built in mic?

Edit: Just read this which answers my question: https://www.macrumors.com/2015/08/30/apple-tv-4-october-launch-sub-200-price/
 
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Mr.C said:
I think you're reading too much in to it. Besides always on would mean a quicker reduction in battery charge. I don't think that's going to happen.
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lol

a little too certain it wasn't going to happen? ;)
 
Jack Delgado said:
Just want to say... called it. Naysayers be damned. ;)
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From the days when "Hey Siri" was introduced back in iOS 8 I think it was people knew it could easily happen and just required hardware for it basically. The question here was whether or not the new iPhones would have that (in the form of that co-processor that they have).
 
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