It works for me. Came home from a bar on Saturday evening and as I walked up my driveway I raised my wrist and said “Switch the driveway light on”. Worked perfectly
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How are you finding raise to talk to Siri without "Hey Siri"
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I’ve had no false positives. Mostly works. I find raising it close to you mouth increased the hit rate. Didn’t work as well driving, but I’ll play with it
Tried using it while driving. (Also holding it to my mouth)
Worked pretty well to switch the music i was playing. (from iPhone over bluetooth)
But sometimes it failed, because it couldn't make a connection to Apple. And then you have to click away the "failure" message, before you can try again. That's a bit annoying.
Worked pretty well to switch the music i was playing. (from iPhone over bluetooth)
But sometimes it failed, because it couldn't make a connection to Apple. And then you have to click away the "failure" message, before you can try again. That's a bit annoying.
There's something wrong with your description. The watchface comes up first, else you won't be able to check the time. Then when you start talking, either loudly or close to the watch, or both, then siri turns up.
I couldn’t get this to work but then now it seems it if I raise my wrist quickly to my mouth and start talking pretty immediately.
Read the post #16 again. Watch face has nothing to do with what I said.
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Siri does not come up when i put the watch to my mouth. Siri only comes up when i start talking.
And i don't even have to wait. I just put it to my mouth and start talking. (But if i don't talk, siri won't come up)
And i think that's how it should be. I'm not even sure how it should recognize my mouth, there's no sensor for that.
Unless you are somehow breathing heavily into the watch, i'm not sure how your watch does what it does.
Yesterday Siri worked for me a couple of times. This morning I was walking and said "Hey Siri" then my watch switched to the apple logo and was stuck there for about 5 minutes. I did a restart and tried Siri again and it worked.. Thought I'd share.. weird experience.
Did you intentionally misunderstand my post? Please point to me where I said the watch ‘recognise’ my mouth, or learn to read.
this is what you said:
This is just not what happens. I can lift my wrist to my mouth as many times as i want. Siri will not come up unless i start talking.
Unless you are saying "hey siri" first. which you left out of any of your posts and is likely what is causing all this confusion.
Raise to talk doesn't require you to say "hey siri"
So I didn’t say the watch ‘recognise’ my mouth then. Next time don’t put words into other people’s mouth again.
Your explanation is just not complete, which is why people are trying to figure out how you are getting siri to come up from just holding your watch to your mouth. If you don't fill in the blanks, don't be surprised if others do.
I'll just have to assume that you are saying "hey Siri" and forget about it.
I didn’t say Hey Siri. If you’re smart, don’t assume too much. Works with only what you have.
Mine started working this morning. yes you have to start talking and Siri animation kicks in. I thought you have wait for Siri animation it makes sense this way otherwise you'd keep seeing Siri every time just to check the time.
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Siri doesn't come out until I start talking. Maybe there's background noise in your situation?
Tried turning it on again today. Found if I even rotate my wrist to see the time, the watch face comes on and is activated by any decently loud voice in the area. Even low quality radios. In a way, it's quite impressive that a handheld radio can do it, but it does make it unusable for me.
Perhaps if everyone is telling you you’re wrong, you just may be wrong.
Siri does not come up just from you simply raising your wrist to your mouth. Period. Otherwise, what would differentiate that between raising your wrist to simply check the time?
The answer: talking. Siri comes up when you raise your wrist and talk. If you don’t say anything, no Siri. Because certainly the watch thinks you his want to check the time. (Spoiler alert: that’s where the watch face comes in).
That’s what everyone is trying to explain to you. I’m not sure what part you don’t understand.
Used raise to talk all day and worked well.... until it now suddenly stopped working. I can yell at it all i want, it's ignoring me 
It's clearly buggy.
I'm sure it would start working again, if i would restart the watch. But i'm going to wait and see if it can fix itself eventually.
It's clearly buggy.I'm sure it would start working again, if i would restart the watch. But i'm going to wait and see if it can fix itself eventually.
No need to be so argumentative and confrontational, matrix07. Just say what you mean, because your original post doesn't make sense or match reality, and I reckon I'm pretty good at comprehension.
[doublepost=1537821642][/doublepost]Just re-read posts 16, 17, and 18. What you're saying there is simply wrong. The siri animation does not start as a result of simply raising your wrist.
[doublepost=1537821642][/doublepost]Just re-read posts 16, 17, and 18. What you're saying there is simply wrong. The siri animation does not start as a result of simply raising your wrist.
If nobody can work out what you’re saying, then it’s most likely you that’s the issue. Your posts are deliberately misleading so you can argue.
Seems to work well..... and it entertained me for a while with, "Beam me up Scotty"
Yes, easily amused
Yes, easily amused
Seems to work well..... and it entertained me for a while with, "Beam me up Scotty"
Yes, easily amused
Haha, i just tested that and now it started working again.