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Hey Siri - you SUCK!

karinatwork

karinatwork

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Mar 2, 2009
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British Columbia, Canada
I'm the laughing stock of my family. I'm prancing around, holding my watch up and saying "Hey Siri!", "HEY! SIRI!!", "HEY SIRI!!!!!!", and she almost never answers. Maybe, 1 out of 10 times. It worked much better the first day, but it seems to slowly getting worse. Then sometimes she hears me, but she never answers. Sigh.

It would be such a neat feature if it worked.
 
In another thread, there was a discussion about the fit of your watch impacting Siri performance. Are you covering the microphone either in the way it's strapped to your wrist or when you raise your arm, do you bend your wrist covering the mic?
 
AbeFrohman said:
In another thread, there was a discussion about the fit of your watch impacting Siri performance. Are you covering the microphone either in the way it's strapped to your wrist or when you raise your arm, do you bend your wrist covering the mic?
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Don't start this again
 
Siri on my watch does not work at all!

Whether I say Hey Siri or Press and hold the crown... it just doesn't activate.

I tried a hard reset and it still didn't work.

Siri is on in the settings on my iphone and in the settings on my watch.

Anyone else with this problem?
 
If you go to Settings on the iPhone and select General > Siri. Make sure Siri and Allow "Hey Siri" are both turned on. When turning off Siri on the phone, it warns that Siri will also be turned off on the watch — so you need that for sure — probably don't need "Hey Siri" on the phone, but it won't hurt.

There's also a setting for Siri on the watch itself — I couldn't find where to set it in the Apple Watch app. Again under General > Siri, you would want to turn on Hey Siri.

You might also check the Siri Language setting on the Siri iPhone settings). Besides English (United States), there's also English (Canadian) — and UK and Australian, too. It changes Siri's accent (on the phone), but it might help Siri recognize different accents as well.

adityashah1989 said:
Siri on my watch does not work at all!
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Could your microphone be faulty? Check it by sending a message or answering a phone call.
 
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Well, I do have an accent, but Siri doesn't mind on my iPhone. It's just weird. I rebooted it, and it worked again but now it has stopped again.
Where IS the microphone, anyway?
 
I think a lot of the problems people have is that they yell at their watch or their phone for that matter. Usually talking in a regular tone works much better than screaming at the watch.
 
matty.p said:
I think a lot of the problems people have is that they yell at their watch or their phone for that matter. Usually talking in a regular tone works much better than screaming at the watch.
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But screaming into one's wrist presents a much more amusing scene for passers-by. :p

My Watch Siri is kind of a bitch too...or so I thought. I was trying to use her in the car this morning, and she wasn't responding to Hey Siri. Then I realized that my phone was plugged in and charging on the seat next to me, and my PHONE was activating on my "Hey Siri", which probably precluded my Watch from answering. Maybe?
 
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