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I just really, really confused Siri. Does this happen for anyone else?

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This went on for at least a minute before I cancelled it by hitting the crown.

Totally reproducible by both myself and my son on his watch.

Trigger Siri on your watch and say "Hey Siri, I'm going to work" and see what happens.


Can anyone else get Siri to do the same thing? watchOS8.1 on both series 6 and series 7 watches.
 
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Works fine for me, with the standard female voice.

Edit: mine is a S4. Didn’t read the OP carefully.
 
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I just typed this into Siri on my iPad, and got the "I don't understand..." response. It doesn't loop like in the video, but I'm surprised Siri doesn't understand such a common phrase!
 
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Will this still happen if you put Siri in silent mode? Sounds like Siri initially picked up the “Hey Siri” part as part of the command and keeps getting triggered each time it’s spoken, causing an infinite loop.
 
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that be me said:
I think it's because your own voice sounds very similar to Siri's. Would this work if you changed Siri's voice or you asked someone else to try with your watches?
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Nope, it's the same if my son does it and I just asked my daughter to say the same thing to my watch and it went into loop mode for them both.
 
On my S6 Siri just said "I don't" understand "I'm going to work". And then just went away. No looping.
 
lclev said:
On my S6 Siri just said "I don't" understand "I'm going to work". And then just went away. No looping.
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You have to say "Hey Siri, I'm going to work". Not just "I'm going to work".
 
Feek said:
Nope, it's the same if my son does it and I just asked my daughter to say the same thing to my watch and it went into loop mode for them both.
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I re-watched the video and realized the first voice to speak was actually Siri's. My bad, but it does sound like a way to reproduce what's going on. Even with the voice recognition there are some content creators who trigger hey siri on my phone. I wasn't able to get this to work with my S7 Apple watch.
 
My watch looped on "Hey Siri, I'm going to work." The second time I tried it, my phone was triggered also. The phone didn't loop. It responded, "I don't understand, 'Hey Siri, I'm going to work,' but I could search the web for it." I declined.

I'm retired, so I could understand the confusion. ??

Watch s7, iPhone 13 Pro.
 
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I tried with my S7 and it didn’t loop. Indeed, Siri said she doesn’t understand but she wasn’t triggered when she repeated “hey Siri, I’m going…”.
 
DeepIn2U said:
I don't have this on my S6 nike+ just tried it.

Maybe cause I'm in a quite room without music playing like that in the video?
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I had to do it a couple of times to get it to mess up.. The first couple of times it said "I don't understand I'm going to work, here's what I can find on the web"
 
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BugeyeSTI said:
I had to do it a couple of times to get it to mess up.. The first couple of times it said "I don't understand I'm going to work, here's what I can find on the web"
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Oh.

Well I’m not trying to break Siri, not gonna win any internet points on that /s lol.

My attempts ended up as a fail not a loop. Normal alerts come up seconds before Siri died or Siri just closed out after it’s initial fail.
 
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DeepIn2U said:
Oh.

Well I’m not trying to break Siri, not gonna win any internet points on that /s lol.

My attempts ended up as a fail not a loop. Normal alerts come up seconds before Siri died or Siri just closed out after it’s initial fail.
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I hear you. I wouldn't ever tell Siri I'm going to work.. Not sure how people find bugs like these..
 
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BugeyeSTI said:
Not sure how people find bugs like these..
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Totally random, I sat down in my office and for some reason I can't explain, I reached down, pushed the crown to activate Siri and said "Hey Siri, I'm going to work" and then it happened.

It did make me laugh.
 
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