No need to say Hey Siri, or Press the Crown

Siri on the Apple Watch SUCKS! I hate it. I have the LTE Series 3 and it never works when I need it to. I always have to wait. The "Raise to speak" is a joke as well. It never works. It's easier to just use Hey Siri on my iPhone. I can't get any of my shortcuts to run from my watch, either. Even when tapping Siri on the Siri Watch face. Useless.

 

It's really shocking how bad Siri is. I don't understand what is going on up there in Apple that they're not paying more attention to this.

 

I think I have like a 25% success rate with Siri on Apple Watch. I would sometimes say "Hey Siri" and my watch wouldn't register it but my iPhone (that is across the room) picks it up just fine. I really wish it worked like Apple advertises with Raise to Speak, but it's really just like Siri roulette.

 

it worked very well for me when i first upgraded to 5.0....
after 2 days it became really bad and rarely works well

 

I use “Hey Siri” each time and prefer it that way.

Siri works very well for me.

Maybe an accent?

 

Raise to speak is garbage on my series 4. Very frustrating.

 

Raise to speak on my series 3 works as long as my arm is hanging by my side and I raise the watch to my mouth. If my arm is on my desk and I move the watch near my mouth, Siri seems to be on a lunch break.

 

S4 here, raise to speak is no good.
Siri will hear everything I say correctly and show it on the screen then it just dissappears

 

This morning during my workout...

"Text Mom It's really raining hard over here right now"

Here's what I'll send "It's really hard right now."

NO NO NO NO!

 

I don’t know what you all are doing wrong, but Siri works great for me, raise to speak works roughly 75% of the time, and Siri gets my message right about 90-95% of the time.

 

Raise to speak works almost every time. Sometimes I probably wait too long.

As far as messages, I just speak. Maybe she doesn't like deep voices.

 

Might be lol. I do make sure I talk a little slower than normal and annunciate as well as I can, that helps I imagine.

 

Okay, so I’m not much of a “Siri” fan, but I do like to play. Today I noticed that Siri takes two or three times to “Wake up”, before I can ask a question or do anything. The “Raise to speak” hasn’t worked at all. Ever. Looks like I'm not the only one.

 

Hmmm, I guess it’s “Patience, Grasshopper, Patience”..

 

I turned raise to speak off it just doesn’t work. Left the Hey Siri command on as that actually works better.

Siri & HomeKit are trash. Alexa is so much better for both. I really wish Apple would allow us to switch to a preferred A.I. assistant on the Watch and overall iOS.

 

Great advice. I’ve found this really helps. If the first attempt doesn’t work, I no longer just rotate my wrist away and then back towards me. Now I drop my arm and then raise it back up. I also bring the watch close to my mouth and speak towards the crown (where the mic hole is). Works way better.

 

Raise to speak pretty much never works for me. Simple things like setting a timer work pretty much 100% of the time if preceded by 'Hey Siri'. Other commands, not so much. I'd say 60-70% success rate. But this appears to be hardware rather than software. I just recently got a HomePod and other than the expected Siri limitations with complex requests or names, the sensitivity of the mics on this thing are scary-good. I can whisper from across the room with loud music playing and it hears me and correctly executes the command. On my Apple watch I have to speak loudly and clearly while raising my wrist to my mouth - and still generally poor results.

 

Mine works fine. Even raising from arm on desk. Also, turning on flashlight. Had to manually turn it off. I sent the rain post to wife as stated in post. Sent exactly as spoken. I don't speak slow or fast and don't try to over enunciate. Any accents could affect it, I guess.