I found this out while working out yesterday - but it's not a deal breaker for me. It's much faster to press and hold my left AirPods Pro than it is to ask Siri to do it!
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iOS 15 Breaks Siri AirPods Pro Controls, Fix Coming in iOS 15.1
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I’ll make this comment every time I see some crap like this.
Apple’s new MO is break it with an update and fix it soon after with a .1 or .1.1 release. Their software QC has gone down down down.
Apple’s new MO is break it with an update and fix it soon after with a .1 or .1.1 release. Their software QC has gone down down down.
Uh, duh. It’s been an issue since Beta 1, and I’ve reported it after every beta update. Nice to see someone finally acknowledge it.
So far moving Siri to the device itself has only succeeded in making her into more of an idiot child than she already was.
So far moving Siri to the device itself has only succeeded in making her into more of an idiot child than she already was.
It’s not. Everyone I know who exercises with their Pro’s has relied on Siri over the doofus squeeze controls because trying to do while jogging/biking/anything cardio generally results in pulling the stupid thing out of your ear entirely. It’s a lot easier to invoke Siri to toggle noise cancelation/transparency, skip track etc.
Please don’t so easily fall into the fallacy of thinking everyone uses something the same way you do.
I jumped in on beta 1 and never had this issue until the RC this week. I showed off iOS 15 to no one.
Still pissed about the way the last season went…
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I have noticed a lot of people find Siri cumbersome because they think they have to wait for a response before you give instructions. My wife interacts inefficiently with Siri like this constantly. Instead, try simply saying Hey Siri and immediately follow with your request without pausing. For instance, “Hey, Siri, turn down the volume” Once I became aware of how the pause after the Siri wake command was not necessary, the interactions become faster than squeezing the AirPod stems or pressing buttons on the AirPods Pro. Same goes with interacting with Siri on the iPhone or HomePods. Give it a try and let me know what you think.
iOS 13 if I remember correctly was like this - it immediately broke Bluetooth connectivity to a 2017 Mazda that had worked flawlessly until iOS 13 and it took a number of dot releases and me filing bug reports before they finally fixed it.
actually I’m more inclined to have someone explain how a feature that Apple creates or solidifies within an API along with documentation ends up being broken by a new iOS update (even Beta)?
I mean wouldn’t the working feature documented have been cross-checked against within creating the new iOS that would be fixed before rolling out a beta?
I honestly don’t know how this works with programming so I’m very curious for an experienced coder to help explain how things like this keeps occurring.
It may or may not be something that was tested. It may have been tested and they knew about the bug. But every release has known bugs - at a certain point, when the bugs aren’t showstoppers (and this one certainly is not), you lock things down and push the next set of bug fixes to the next release.
Yep, it's a tough comparison, tech visionary vs. CFO bean counter. Yeah, that's a tough call right there who who might be better at running a forward thinking company. Hmm.
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Yep, it's a tough comparison, tech visionary vs. CFO bean counter. Yeah, that's a tough call right there who who might be better at running a forward thinking company. Hmm.
Luckily we don‘t have to figure it out based on your pejorative characterizations, and can instead look at quantifiable data - like sales, market share, profits, stock price, etc. Hmmm.
Once again, another reason, if you have a production device, or are using a device for real work, don't jump on the day 1 bandwagon....
Stay back, wait at least until the .1 release....some wise words...I am still on Big Sur and iOS 14 because I knew something like this would happen with iOS 15 when it was released...
Stay back, wait at least until the .1 release....some wise words...I am still on Big Sur and iOS 14 because I knew something like this would happen with iOS 15 when it was released...
lol I reported this bug in beta 5 or beta 6. Noticed it as soon as I started using iOS 15. Another similar functionality which is now gone is that Siri also doesn’t report watch and/or AirPods battery level anymore.
Don’t assume that people use things like yourself, you say, while firmly claiming that it’s not a minority that uses this feature. How do you know it’s not a minority? You and your friends don’t constitute a majority of users, I’m sure.
That said, it sounds like a nice enough feature, so it’s of course too bad that it is currently broken for some (all? most?) people.
APP users bought them to use those features, not to look cool. It’s a big miss.
No, it’s really definitely been consistently worse since 2013. There are so many bugs that never get fixed at all, and that list only grows because Apple don’t ever bother putting time into fixing everything. It’s Wall Street in charge. Xerox Tonerheads, but the toner is “next season phone sales”.