Siri Delivering Incorrect Weather Forecasts For Common City Names

[SimonTheSoundMa]

Some of the features that came in iOS 6 just do not work. Ask for football (soccer) scores and it gives you the last match from last season that ended in May. The new season started in August. For cricket it says "I do not know much about cricket yet".

Same as the Weather, the data is provided by Yahoo. Wonder if they are at fault?

 

[mrgraff]

Wonder what Siri thinks the temp is in:

Hell, California, U.S
Hell, Michigan, U.S.

Looks like The Devil is wearing skates to work.

 

[Gemütlichkeit]

Starting to feel like this was rushed software once the hardware was scheduled.

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

Besides maps is anyone having issues with other aspects of 6.0, such as texting? It’s become a pain for me lately with the spell correct even though I'm spelling something properly. It refused to allow me to type ill, and kept insisting on I'll. Mandatory kept correcting as man story. Very irritating, is it just mine is there a setting I need changing? All I know is its gotten worse since I went to 6.0.

I've never been able to type "ill" without hitting the x on its I'll suggestion. I agree that it's annoying as hell (another word that it won't let me type... it insists on he'll.)

This issue has existed since iPhone OS 3. (It didn't take on the name "iOS" until iOS 4, did it?)

 

[class77]

Siri gave me 2 different forecasts, including the forecast for Jacksonville FL instead of the city I live in

 

[Glideslope]

this is not apples month

More specifically, it is not iOS 6's Month. Come on Scott, what is really going on behind closed doors?

 

[tigertazz]

Oh where, oh where has Apple's QC dept gone? Oh where, oh where could it be???

They're not sure either. They tried to use maps to get turn by turn directions and just ended up lost

 

[Battlefield Fan]

WPA2 fix?

Look at the news from yesterday. It has been discovered that users on WPA2 networks on their iPhone 5's have been experiencing 1.5-2Mbps download even though their speed on other devices may be 25-40Mbps.

 

[drummingcraig]

Siri gave me 2 different forecasts, including the forecast for Jacksonville FL instead of the city I live in

So what's our weather going to be like Jacksonville?

 

[Rodimus Prime]

Starting to feel like this was rushed software once the hardware was scheduled.

kind of agree. I also would not be surprised if some of this mess could and should be blamed on Steve Jobs. I would not be surprised in the least that he change the direction before he left wanting to throw google complete off the phone. This cause things to get rushed.

 

[doctor-don]

A year or more ago, Weather Bug was having similar problems (Android phone). I am near Atlanta, Georgia, USA, but I was getting weather reports for places in Nebraska, North Dakota and other places in the midwest. Now it is correct almost all the time. It now functions as it should - reliably.

 

[verniesgarden]

That changes nothing to the fact that iOS 6 is a major fail so far.

i'm not saying that i'm saying apple is held to a higher standard which is why these issues are so bad

 

[JAT]

I stopped using the weather app about 3 years ago. Because it kept switching my Minneapolis, MN to Minneapolis, KS. After selecting it over and over.

Weather Underground gives far more locations. My choice.

 

[grey02]

Looks like everyone has a great time

Macrumors should be named Maccraps perhaps.

 

[jrlcopy]

Here's how you fix it!

At least how I did. Update your contact card that Siri uses for you. Mine said ny10014unitedstates" as one massive single word, once I added spaces Siri could tell me the correct weather.

 

[KdParker]

First Siri test I did on my iPad revealed this. I had no idea it was New York, Texas.

Just tried again. Problem still there. Even using a zip didn't work. I got it to answer weather for Brooklyn though.

Get the big media center cities right Apple. It is worth it to double check those.

Makes since...wondering why it was working in my poe dunk town.

 

[gorskiegangsta]

82°? Poor people in NY are going to burn.....


USE °C!!!!

As much as I like the SI system because of its superior accuracy, consistency and ease of use, Fahrenheit scale is actually better for telling outside temperature as it's more accurate (i.e. it has more scale units per certain value range) than Celcius.

As for SIRI's weather accuracy, it's actually quite frustrating. Every time I ask it for weather (I'm in Brooklyn, NY), it gives me New York, TX. Even using specific terms such as "what's the weather at my location", "what's the weather where I live", "what's the weather in New York, New York", "what's the weather in New York City" gives the weather for New York, TX. Asking it for "what's the weather in Brooklyn, New York" gives the weather for Brooklyn, OH.
W.T.F.

It defies all logic that Apple's map/location data can be that bad, since New York is the largest metropolitan area in US.

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Looks like The Devil is wearing skates to work.
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So hell is in Norway?? Apparently, it suffers from opposite of global warming.

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Starting to feel like this was rushed software once the hardware was scheduled.

Some parts of iOS6 definitely feel rushed. The App Store on iPad (3rd gen), for one, feels incredibly slow and sluggish.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

As much as I like the SI system because of its superior accuracy, consistency and ease of use, Fahrenheit scale is actually better for telling outside temperature as it's more accurate (i.e. it has more scale units per certain value range) than Celcius.

As for SIRI's weather accuracy, it's actually quite frustrating. Every time I ask it for weather (I'm in Brooklyn, NY), it gives me New York, TX. Even using specific terms such as "what's the weather at my location", "what's the weather where I live", "what's the weather in New York, New York", "what's the weather in New York City" gives the weather for New York, TX. Asking it for "what's the weather in Brooklyn, New York" gives the weather for Brooklyn, OH.
W.T.F.

It defies all logic that Apple's map/location data can be that bad, since New York is the largest metropolitan area in US.
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A agree. Every other app I have used on other phones when ask for a location it starts with cities that are the closes to your given area.

So in Texas if I ask that question the result would be fine but in new England it should give NYC NY as the first guess. This is a major bug in Apple's programming.

If I had to guess it uses something like zip codes and is looking threw them at one end of the list or the other and what ever it hits first it assumes is the answer. Yeah it is quick but leads to bad results. Plus errors like your location is in NYC NY it better give the weather for NYC NY when ask for it at your location or in New York.

Sum it up it is not the map location data that is bad. It is the algrothium pulling in the data. It is not taking in to account your general location which only requires a cell/wifi signal to get a general location. Close enough to figure out what you are looking for.

 

[gorskiegangsta]

A agree. Every other app I have used on other phones when ask for a location it starts with cities that are the closes to your given area.

So in Texas if I ask that question the result would be fine but in new England it should give NYC NY as the first guess. This is a major bug in Apple's programming.

If I had to guess it uses something like zip codes and is looking threw them at one end of the list or the other and what ever it hits first it assumes is the answer. Yeah it is quick but leads to bad results. Plus errors like your location is in NYC NY it better give the weather for NYC NY when ask for it at your location or in New York.

Sum it up it is not the map location data that is bad. It is the algrothium pulling in the data. It is not taking in to account your general location which only requires a cell/wifi signal to get a general location. Close enough to figure out what you are looking for.

You're right on that. Faulty map location data is not it because Location services work like a charm for me. When I asked SIRI "what's my location" or "where am I right now" it pulled the map snippet with my location and it even guessed the building number right. It gets restaurants/other places of interest around me fairly accurately. However, it is still beyond me how/why it can't pull weather data when it clearly knows my location, which is right in the middle of NYC and, moreover, when I specifically ask for New York City. I'm hoping it's merely a faulty method/algorithm because that'll be much easier/faster to fix than faulty map data.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

You're right on that. Faulty map location data is not it because Location services work like a charm for me. When I asked SIRI "what's my location" or "where am I right now" it pulled the map snippet with my location and it even guessed the building number right. It gets restaurants/other places of interest around me fairly accurately. However, it is still beyond me how/why it can't pull weather data when it clearly knows my location, which is right in the middle of NYC and, moreover, when I specifically ask for New York City. I'm hoping it's merely a faulty method/algorithm because that'll be much easier/faster to fix than faulty map data.

while that part is true it still could be pretty ugly fix. Reason being is its indexes for the databases are crap and how they are pulling the infomation out could be bad so it would require a pretty big rewrite. Does not change the fact that it is a pretty huge bug that surprises me it made it out of QA.

 

[gorskiegangsta]

while that part is true it still could be pretty ugly fix. Reason being is its indexes for the databases are crap and how they are pulling the infomation out could be bad so it would require a pretty big rewrite. Does not change the fact that it is a pretty huge bug that surprises me it made it out of QA.

I choose to remain optimistic, no matter how naive that may be Maps/navigation/PoI finder is essential for me, living and working in an area such as NYC, so its utility is critical. As for why Apple rushed their maps out the door, I'm guessing they, being aware of the incompleteness, just chose to bite the proverbial bullet and take the early criticisms, in order to completely eliminate reliance on Google. Whether it's at all in users' best interests is a whole another argument but, on the plus side, the map data will (or rather should) only get better with time.

 

[MrBitchen]

Siri gives more poor search results.

Earlier I was looking for a local motorcycle shop and all I got were car dealers. Car dealers have nothing to do with motorcycles. When I was on iOS5 earlier in the week I asked the same question and actually got motorcycle shops.

 

[cg399]

Can anyone spot what is wrong here?

Yep, every time Siri sets a reminder for me, he (British English is a guy) sets it for a different time than he says...

I'm getting used to asking for an hour later, so the reminder is set correctly.

Annoying much?

 

[tekno]

If the sgs3 (just as an example) had this would it even be news?

But you're on a site that reports Apple news.

 

[nick_elt]

But you're on a site that reports Apple news.

Im not talking about macrumors.com but you can go to most news website and see anything wrong that Apple does (or is percieved to have done).