iOS 15 Breaks Siri AirPods Pro Controls, Fix Coming in iOS 15.1

[dysamoria]

So if nobody caught this during beta testing there can’t be too many people that ever used this feature.

Irrelevant. The fault lies with Apple not testing what they promote and sell.

 

[cmaier]

Delete

 

[dysamoria]

LOL 😂 There hasn’t been a stable iOS version since iOS 12.

I’m still on it. Delay and lag on typing suddenly appeared regardless of not changing the OS. It’s not just the bugs in iOS. It’s the constant reliance on endless services.

 

[dysamoria]

I jumped on beta 8 and reported it three times. Once on beta 8 and twice on RC.

I can’t believe people who jump on beta 1 couldn’t detect this. This shows me how beta testing is just a cool trend to show off to your friends rather than a tuning process.

What makes you think it’s the testers not reporting that’s the issue, instead of Apple continuing to demonstrate a complete lack of care over “minor problems”?

 

[dysamoria]

It's likely that only a minority of AirPods pro uses use this feature, and it was not prioritized

What gets prioritized anymore? So much goes unfixed for seemingly perpetuity.

 

[dysamoria]

What's the point of having one manufacterer making the hardware and software when they can't get it right.

They could, but they’re in too much of a hurry to start working on the next revision they want to sell next year.

 

[dysamoria]

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.

With the latency I see on my device, I TYPE far faster than the phone can handle. Forget dealing with the lousy speech to text at my speed...

 

[dysamoria]

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.

And they’ve been doing that with many bugs since iOS 7, which haven’t been fixed yet. A few finally did, many did not. They’re that old.

It’s really about the prioritizing of pushing out of the next new features, so they can push out the next product release, so they can basically sell the same damned thing again every year.

 

[dysamoria]

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. .

So long as the top shareholders are happy... they needn’t even be Apple product users. Wall Street is cancer.

 

[Thehangmn]

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.

Says the guy who assumes everyone uses something the same as they do.

I can bike fine with touch control and Siri is useless anyway. Sorry you are having problems, but in the world of AirPods your problem is likely not a top priority, sorry.

 

[TheByteSmasher]

Does anyone know of a way to have announced messages automagically marked as read? It’s annoying to have to go back into imessage just to do that.

 

[h00ligan]

I can’t say I’ve even noticed this. But that is probably because no matter how many times I forget then from Bluetooth, hold the button until it flashes amber, repair them- it constantly tells me “not your airpods pro”.

 

[joeymichaelp]

Apple can’t get software right since at least iOS 11. But they still sell their crap bc they know people will buy and they just pay people to tech support. And more than often the customer support is all over the place and absurdly redic. The bugs are back, they haven’t left for about 4 years now.

 

[joeymichaelp]

Try getting a brand new iPhone 13 replaced as it came cosmeticly defective. 4 days. 4 diff stories…. Allot of stress later and they blindly mailed me a phone. After 2 days of stating that they couldn’t….