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Me: “Hey Siri, set a timer for one hour and twenty-five minutes”

Siri: “Only one timer can be set at a time”

🤯🤯🤯

(No other timers are running btw. It “thinks” I’m asking it to set two timers, one for one hour and another for twenty-five minutes. Unreal.)

Anyone else getting this?
I have two of these damn things and very much starting to regret buying them. Had from launch and I was genuinely expecting Siri to get better over time. Nope.
 
Yeah you actually want to lose the and, you actually where asking for two separate timers. Dang Siri is paying attention to grammar....
 
I just said “set a timer for one hour and thirty five minutes” and it worked.
 
Using ‘and’ is actually correct grammar for the request. Skipping it is not.

One hour twenty minutes is proper grammar. While either may work, the and is superfluous at best.

Just like saying one hundred and twenty dollars is ok, but it’s not the best way to say it, the best way is one hundred twenty dollars.
 
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One hour twenty minutes is proper grammar. While either may work, the and is superfluous at best.

Just like saying one hundred and twenty dollars is ok, but it’s not the best way to say it, the best way is one hundred twenty dollars.
Maybe in the US, not in the UK.
 
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