Didn't use it much on the 4S, found dictation is much better on iOS 6. Also like being able to ask her about sports scores and move times. The "Launch" command finally working properly is great too. I use it a lot more now on iOS 6.
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I disabled Siri
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I use Siri a lot with navigation. It's so easy to say, "Navigate to the nearest In-N-Out." and she does it. Siri is awesome for that. I also love Apple Maps for navigation. I know people hate on Maps a lot, but here in San Diego, for navigation, Maps is great. And Siri makes it that much better.
I'm just curious- what else would you like it to do? What you've listed sounds like a lot to me. Obviously, there is a lot more you CAN do, but would you use it more if it did specific other things? (keep it clean!)
I'm not sure I want it to really do anything more ... I don't dislike Siri, just for my uses this is all I really want/need..
Only times I use Siri:
Telling her to find a song while driving
Telling her to call someone while driving
Telling her to text someone while driving
Telling her to google something so long that I'm too lazy to type it.
Telling her to find a song while driving
Telling her to call someone while driving
Telling her to text someone while driving
Telling her to google something so long that I'm too lazy to type it.
I ask Siri all of the sports scores, I ask who my favorite football team is playing the next week, check sports score, I set my alarm clock, I make appointments, I do google searches... All kinds of stuff that's quicker than opening safari and typing.
I didn't use Siri at all on the 4S until iOS 6. I use her a lot now on the 5 with sports scores and schedules. Just today I asked her when the next Razorbacks slaughtering is going to take place. Now if she could just make scores so I don't have to hear 58 to 10! She will also show the whole 2012 schedule so I can see who is going to murder us next week and the week after.
As it is, I always bypass the speech enabled phone systems when I call Fed Ex or Apple. No way I am going to accept talking to a phone. This stuff is the friggin' wet dream of programmers enamored of early Star Trek episodes.
I don't use it. My wife loves it. She sends almost all her texts that way. Needing glasses she can also set alarms and reminders easily.
I played with it on my 4S on launch day for about an hour. Then disabled it.
On my 5, I disabled immediately.
I wish you could do voice to text without having Siri enabled, but that's BS too.
If it did it in the device instead of needing a network connection it'd be ok.
On my 5, I disabled immediately.
I wish you could do voice to text without having Siri enabled, but that's BS too.
If it did it in the device instead of needing a network connection it'd be ok.