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iOS 15 to Limit Siri Functionality With Third-Party Apps
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If you look at the list linked in this article, the only ones that I've ever used is the ability to append to a document. The rest are obscure Carplay or ride-sharing related items. I think this title is a bit click-baity.
When i check the weather, I wan't detailed informations, not just an info if i need an umbrella.
My alarms are always the same, I've set them up once as a recurring alarm, and turn them off on holiday.
Am I the only person that neither wants to talk to my device nor have it talk to me? (Unless it's CARROTweather…)
Frankly, my only Siri use case is turning lights on and off when my hands are full… and that fails more than 50% of the time.
Frankly, my only Siri use case is turning lights on and off when my hands are full… and that fails more than 50% of the time.
I get current conditions, rain or clear, high and low temperatures, and wind info if it’s going to be windy. That’s detailed enough for me for asking Siri.
I cook and grill, so I cant use only recurring alarms.
Apple is desperate to remain the worst virtual assistant on the market. They had to do this to maintain their current level of inadequacy.
It’s hilarious that we’re a family of iPhones, iPads and Apple TV’s. Yet every room has a Google Speaker or Google Hub to actually get proper answers and perform tasks.
Embarrassing.
Embarrassing.
We are not into these smart(better call them dumb) home devices at all, we use classic light switches and in the living room we use a remote for background light. That's all.
Generally i see the comfortable side of this, but I don't want my house being dependent of third party cloud shizzle, nor being forced to replace all the dumb devices after 5-10 years because some dumb device provider and its cloud went bankrupt, or the device became incompatible due to planned obsolescence.
WTF this is such an anti-developer, anti-consumer decision. They should be more forthcoming on why this decision will benefit the iOS platform and its users. This should have been announced at WWDC not 6 weeks before the release.
Siri is , and this ensures, Siri will always be a second rate assistant.
Anyone stop for a minute to consider that maybe these commands didn’t work well in aggregate?
if an API is leading to an inordinate amount of complaints or support requests (ubers going to the wrong places, bills or payments being made eroeously, I don’t know I’m not Apple ) that maybe a company is justified in sunsetting them?
if an API is leading to an inordinate amount of complaints or support requests (ubers going to the wrong places, bills or payments being made eroeously, I don’t know I’m not Apple ) that maybe a company is justified in sunsetting them?
Since this thread has become a referendum on Siri here's what I use her for:
Sending texts to my wife/son/daughter through the Apple Watch
Adding items to my shopping list in Reminders
Turning lights on and off in the house
Setting alarms/timers on my watch
selecting/changing/starting/stopping music
Setting destinations on my Apple Watch
Asking basic questions about the world
Turning on/off the home security alarm
Launching apps
Siri has about 99% success in doing these things. What am I missing?
Sending texts to my wife/son/daughter through the Apple Watch
Adding items to my shopping list in Reminders
Turning lights on and off in the house
Setting alarms/timers on my watch
selecting/changing/starting/stopping music
Setting destinations on my Apple Watch
Asking basic questions about the world
Turning on/off the home security alarm
Launching apps
Siri has about 99% success in doing these things. What am I missing?
Since no explanation is given by Apple my guess is that they’re planning something bigger.
That’s their tune!
That’s their tune!
It's a nice excuse for Apple to use is what it is. I always found it interesting how Apple suddenly began to focus on Privacy when their services such as Maps and Siri were clearly behind the competition.
Yeah, agreed. I'm actually pretty baffled by wtf Apple is up to in the AI/ML space, in general. When S4TF was rolling along I had some genuine hope that we'd see some significant improvement in AI/ML development on Apple platforms. Now of course, that was Google, not Apple, but it still seemed to bode well for the future... Sure, coremltools continues to improve—at a drunk and debilitated snail's pace—and there has been a definitive commitment to differentiable programming, but it's still super mysterious to me why Apple is dragging their heels so badly.
Being dumb and getting dumber reminds me of a movie. But that was comedy and fiction whereas THIS is real. Sad times.
I've been getting more into using Siri I use it for...
- Opening Spotify and playing specific artists or genre (such as light jazz)
- Navigating by having it take me to one of my contacts home or work or calling out a specific address. Along with commands like end navigation.
- Set calendar events or notifications
- Dictation of text messages, grocery lists and notes. (It's not the best but it's mostly right and quicker to dictate and manually correct errors than to type everything on a phone)
- Set alarms and timers or cancel them
- Find nearby places like the closest Walmart or Gas Station. Actually voice search for a lot of nearby businesses by name.
- I even used it once for entering passwords on AppleTV. It actually understands the NATO phonetic alphabet if you need to spell a word. I could actually say capital Papa Alfa Sierra Sierra Alfa Whiskey Oscar Romeo Delta One, it would actually fill in Password1. I was just curious if it would work as inputting passwords on those TV inferfaces is a huge pain in the butt. Sometimes it took a couple tries but it worked for me. I don't recall if symbols worked or not.
A lot of it is you need to speak loudly, clearly, fluidly and in the correct order. Any pausing will make Siri think the command is finished. Some keywords make a big difference. Like it took me a while to get Siri to give me the weather forecast for the day. Not just the current weather. Or getting Siri to take a name and time for an event rather than it just making a generic event for a specific day/time.
I do wish they'd make Siri more interrogative on tasks which call for it. Like when creating a calendar event. It should ask me if there's anything I'd like to add. Keeping it open for me to add stuff like location, notes, invites and ending time. Until I say I'm finished or a timeout period has lapsed.
Other than the usuals who hate on Apple just because it's Apple I don't know why anyone else here would applaud Alexa. I use both Alexa and Siri and Alexa is just as crappy. Less than 50% of the time Alexa doesn't understand anyone in my family and we speak perfect English with good enunciation. Alexa also returns the wrong results. Siri is very iconic and if people truly thought Siri was so horrible nobody here would take the time to talk about Siri or even care so stop with the purposeful Siri hate. 🙄
All I use it for is to set reminders, set timers, and do quick math calculations while I'm driving. The reminders one is huge via my watch.
I'm also Australian, and Siri and I don't always get along as she doesn't understand me that much.
I'm also Australian, and Siri and I don't always get along as she doesn't understand me that much.
What does you being in the U.S midwest mean? Are you suggesting that people in your neck of the woods speak perfect English with no accent and clear enunciation?