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Every time I wanna watch something, I just tell Siri the title, and she fetches it for me. Simple. But Siri is not so smart in all situations, and it gets stupidly frustrating.

One night I wanted to watch the movie "Searching". Guess what Siri does: she tells me how to search.

Then I wanted to watch the new CBS series called "Tell Me a Story". Guess what she does this time: SHE TELLS ME A F****** STORY.
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chabig

macrumors G4
Sep 6, 2002
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Clearly you were frustrated, and I didn't help. Normally I would expect "Find Tell Me a Story" to work, but I can see why Siri might be confused since it sounds very much like a command that she already knows. I get the same story you get. But if I modify the request a little bit, it works. Try:

"Find TV shows named Tell Me a Story"
"Find TV shows titled Tell Me a Story"
"Find the show Tell Me a Story"

The same trick works for Searching.
 

Juicy Box

macrumors 604
Sep 23, 2014
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I use Siri a lot on the ATV, and my experience with it has been similar.

Sometimes Siri works great, looks up exactly what I intended to search.

Other times, not so much, and yes, it can get pretty frustrating.


Sometimes it might start working if I word the question differently, but sometimes I can ask the same question 1 minute apart and get two totally different results.
 
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