Siri Experiencing Significant Outage

[MacRumors]

While Apple's new Siri personal assistant for the iPhone 4S experiencing a few hiccups in availability just after the device's launch last month, a new widespread outage appears to be the most significant one since those first few days. The Siri problems have been ongoing for at least three hours, with only intermittent service available over that time. In general, users have been faced with error messages in which Siri reports being unable to connect to the network.

Apple has labeled Siri as a beta service and is no doubt continuing to refine the technology and infrastructure behind the feature. Apple has rapidly rolled out the iPhone 4S to nearly 30 countries already with another 15 set to come online next week, although Siri currently offers support only in English (US, UK, and Australia), French, and German.

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[MultiMediaWill]

So my iPhone 4S just turned into a iPhone 4. Thanks Apple.

 

[Sbrocket]

It just worked for me, on the east coast, though it was pretty slow. Guess it was just a short downtime.

 

[kjs862]

i hope she comes back online soon, i really can't live without my Siri

 

[Airmark1]

Down for me too. CA area 1:45 pm PT

 

[DrFu79]

Simply stop asking Siri how the universe works.

 

[Collected]

Maybe it's just me being too critical but I'm not sure a company as large as Apple should be releasing a key feature on a phone in a beta stage of development. I mean they sold SIRI as a key selling point and a reason to buy the iPhone 5.. yet it's still in beta? Hmm..

 

[BulletToothTony]

So my iPhone 4S just turned into a iPhone 4. Thanks Apple.

I didn't know that not connecting to Siri's servers converted your A5 processor into an A4 and made your Camera worse..

Man! that Siri i tell you!!

 

[joeshmo2010]

So my iPhone 4S just turned into a iPhone 4. Thanks Apple.

Get over yourself. It's beta software. Beta software is not guaranteed to work without hiccups.

 

[Rayday]

"Siri, did I do something to make you mad at me?"

No response.

Great. Now I know why they gave Siri a woman's voice. Do I need to pick up flowers for my phone on my way home tonight?

 

[cvaldes]

I didn't know that not connected to Siri's servers converted your A5 processor into a single core and made your Camera worse..

Man! that Siri i tell you!!

Well, at least his standby battery life improved by 50%.

 

[taxbax]

connection requirement

This just goes to show why its so stupid that you need to have a connection for Siri to do local tasks like set a reminder or send a text message.

 

[OafTobark]

happened to me about 30 minutes ago. 1:15PM PST.

"sorry about that, but i am currently unable to process your request"

but she's back and running smooth.

 

[NorCalLights]

I wish that Apple would process all of the old Voice Control commands locally on the phone... leave all the fancy stuff in the cloud, but it shouldn't need to connect to a server to "Call Joe Smith"

 

[Deadman64]

Get over yourself. It's beta software. Beta software is not guaranteed to work without hiccups.

You also paid for Beta software, how's that make sense? I can't believe Apple got away with Siri being a MAJOR selling point of the 4s and then has the ease of calling it Beta so that any problem that comes up can be simply pushed aside as a beta issue.

Just doesn't make sense to me and I think people are kinda just being spoon fed pretty much BS by Apple....but just my opinion.

 

[roadbloc]

Hmmm... Apple best get this fixed quick or it may turn out to be another BBM scenario...

 

[FrizzleFryBen]

All they hype and excitement about her, I forgot Siri was in Beta.

 

[joeshmo2010]

You also paid for Beta software, how's that make sense? I can't believe Apple got away with Siri being a MAJOR selling point of the 4s and then has the ease of calling it Beta so that any problem that comes up can be simply pushed aside as a beta issue.

Just doesn't make sense to me and I think people are kinda just being spoon fed pretty much BS by Apple....but just my opinion.

I paid for a new phone, that just happens to have a beta feature included with it. My number one reason for buying it was the HSPA+ upgrade.

 

[FasterQuieter]

I guess this adds evidence to the theory that the reason Siri isn't on older phones is more to do with the demand it would place on servers rather than the limitations of the devices themselves.

 

[BarryBrown]

Anyone else notice that the wrong apostrophe is used in "I'm"?

 

[joeshmo2010]

I wish that Apple would process all of the old Voice Control commands locally on the phone... leave all the fancy stuff in the cloud, but it shouldn't need to connect to a server to "Call Joe Smith"

I think the reason it needs to connect to a server is because "Siri adapts to your voice overtime" so any thing you say to her is captured so she can remember how you say specific things.

 

[Wicked1]

Simply stop asking Siri how the universe works.

And for sexual favors, I see so many ppl joking around with their phone for this, once maybe twice it is funny, but now there are videos all over with ppl just asking Siri stupid stuff just to see what she will say.

 

[WannaGoMac]

One way the 3gs voice commands were better

This is why the 3GS voice command being built in was better.

Both siri AND voice dictation are offline now.

 

[FrizzleFryBen]

This just goes to show why its so stupid that you need to have a connection for Siri to do local tasks like set a reminder or send a text message.

You might be surprised at how slow it was and low your HD was if all that processing and data were local.

 

[Clown Boy]

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