Siri Can Start a Screen Recording in iOS 16.5 Beta 1

[deebinem]

Now if they could just restore being able to start a workout on apple watch via phone..

Can you explain this more for me? The one thing I love about my watch is NOT having to start anything with my phone so I'm curious as to your use case in wanting this.

 

[iMacDragon]

Can you explain this more for me? The one thing I love about my watch is NOT having to start anything with my phone so I'm curious as to your use case in wanting this.

Starting a workout using airpods that are connected to phone, primarily. It used to work fine till either ios 14 or 15, and has been broken since.

Now it just complains that you need to unlock your phone, and, if it is unlocked or do it on phone, acts as if it's starting a workout.. and then nothing happens.

 

[WiiDSmoker]

I've noticed Siri misinterpreting words pretty easily, too, but most things that I use her for work well. Setting timers, setting alarms, starting/stopping navigation. All of those work well. Where she fails miserably is starting specific songs or artists.

I think pronunciation is a big factor. Have you tried over-pronouncing "day". Humans do tend to get lazy with our speech, and we expect technology to magically understand our ramblings.

"Day" "Living" "Room" -- try pronouncing each word very carefully a few times. Each successful hit will train Siri to recognize your words more accurately.

Combined with your down thumbing other posts, this is a lot of words to defend but also call out the stupidity of Siri.

 

[t0rqx]

After 10 years, imagine what they able to do after 20.

 

[matsan]

Can only imagine the hard work Apple product definition team to come up with this final piece of functionality that will make Siri feature-complete. Great Work, you’re done here! Move on to save those glasses.

 

[routine_analyst]

Oh wow. The world we live in. This is huge news.

 

[evertjr]

I hope we get a LLM powered Siri in iOS 17. People are doing crazy things already using shortcuts app and OpenAI APIs.

 

[coolfactor]

Combined with your down thumbing other posts, this is a lot of words to defend but also call out the stupidity of Siri.

Apologies for the lack of brevity. "Siri sucks at some things and excels at others." There, how's that? 🙄

 

[bunce66]

How is this even a noteworthy story, given that there are other AI systems that are light years ahead? Siri is a joke.

 

[Johnnyponken]

To be honest I already thought she could do this since it’s one of iPhones OS-features.

It’s so embarrassing how far behind Siri is.

 

[bobenhaus]

I'm totally crying with tears in my eyes. Little Siri is starting to crawl now. Sniff Sniff!

 

[anthogag]

It would be more impressive to say “Siri, record this phone call” 🎤

 

[klasma]

(from the other room) “Sorry, this HomePod has no screen.”

 

[klasma]

How is this even a noteworthy story, given that there are other AI systems that are light years ahead? Siri is a joke.

You read it and even commented. That proves its newsworthiness to MacRumors.

 

[klasma]

Apologies for the lack of brevity. "Siri sucks at some things and excels at others." There, how's that? 🙄

I haven’t seen Siri excel at anything, except maybe at ineptitude and mishearing.

 

[darngooddesign]

“This is what I found on the web for start a screen recording”.

 

[garethh]

I've noticed Siri misinterpreting words pretty easily, too, but most things that I use her for work well. Setting timers, setting alarms, starting/stopping navigation. All of those work well. Where she fails miserably is starting specific songs or artists.
ogy to magically understand our ramblings.

"Day" "Living" "Room" -- try pronouncing each word very carefully a few times. Each successful hit will train Siri to recognize your words more accurately.

I get what you are saying here but sometimes I just do not understand its errors. I have Siri on my HomePod mini set to the version of English for my English-speaking country. To get my most-used scene I say one word to it after 'Hey Siri' that is the name of the scene. I say it clearly, no background noise. Normally it works. But then out of the blue, still being pronounced clearly etc, it tells me it cannot turn off a scene but only turn one on. I have not asked it to turn something off. I said one word. No other scene sounds remotely like it either. I think it is the inconsistency and unpredictability that is annoying in my case. And I did report it but I feel like it would be more productive telling a random passing stray cat.

 

[Octavius8]

This is useful because…?
Siri is RIP. Beyond setting timers, BTW, with a very specific wording, is mostly ridiculous and useless.
10 years behind even Dragon dictate from 90s!!

 

[svish]

Great to see Siri improving. Hopefully Siri can do more in the future.

 

[hagar]

Siri understands words pretty well in my opinion. But she is horrible in interpreting these words.

And worse, since a few years her responses change from day to day. Something she does fine one day is impossible the next.

And it feels like everyone has a different Siri. I just read an article you can ask Siri about the battery percentage of your devices. I couldn’t get it to work. Today it magically works fine.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

Can Siri consistently set a timer though and not decide randomly to respond with ‘sorry, there is no timer app installed’.

The whole Siri experience needs a complete overhaul.

 

[riber79]

There wouldn't even be a fight. Siri would get disqualified for trying to bite ChatGPT's ear. 🤣

Siri would probably get the directions wrong and never show up at the right address for the fight 😂

 

[JustSomebody12]

If the European Commission forces Apple to open up to competitor Voice Assistants (which I think they are doing), they better improve Siri fast; or Microsoft is gonna have a lot of fun...

 

[Kottu]

I have experienced many times that Siri can’t even make a call. It understands what I say but keep on saying “working on it “ and nothing happens. Or it tries to call and just drop it. If I do it myself, call goes. I normally request when I drive.

I want Siri to;

1) Understand the language and accent I speak automatically.

2) Give an answer without saying “here’s what I found on the internet “

3) have a continuous conversation

I don’t understand how the largest tech company in the world hasn’t improved it’s so called AI in 10 years! Sack the team and make a partnership with Open AI. Their team can help Apple

 

[Spectrum]

Command+Shift+5...?

EDIT: Oops - I see this is for iOS... How do you delete a post around here...?