Siri on Apple Watch fights with Siri on iPhone

[outskirtsofinfinity]

Just got my first Apple Watch, a Series 5. I am loving it.

But there is one aspect that I feel Apple has not given much thought to: What if Siri is activated on both watch AND iPhone and you carry your phone with you, or have it in the car with you?

I am at my desk at work this AM and say Hey Siri and both the phone AND the watch responds. Yesterday, as I was driving I went 'Hey Siri' to send a text from my watch (to test out my new watch!), but the phone also responded through the vehicle's Bluetooth system and said something like "you want a send a text to whom?" which ended up being picked up by the watch, and the message to my friend sent from the watch ended up being "hey Melyssa are you free for you want to send a message to whom?". There have been numerous incidents like this. Is the only solution to disable Siri on one of the devices? Apple should give some thought to this. One idea would be to have the phone or the watch tell the other device that "I got this - stand down", through some wireless protocol. It just doesn't seem too hard to implement. Just a thought.

 

[MisterSavage]

Supposedly "hey Siri" isn't needed with raise to wake on the watch. You could also hold down the digial crown to enable Siri on the watch. The phone wouldn't be listening in either of those cases.

 

[RTWG]

I turned off the 'List for "Hey Siri"' setting on my Watch because this became so annoying.

 

[revmacian]

OMG, can you imagine?!

Me: What’s going on in here?
iPhone Siri: She started it!
Watch Siri: I did not!
iPhone Siri: She’s just jealous because she has to pair to me!

 

[Itinj24]

I notice that when I’m in a room with several devices, my bedroom for example has a HomePod, my iPhone, my iPad and my Apple Watch is on my wrist, Siri will awaken on more than one device, but I always only get an answer from one device and the other Siri’s would cancel themselves. In this case would be my HomePod. I haven’t had an issue with Siri prioritizing which device she answers from. Same with the car. CarPlay’s Siri would answer which makes the most sense in that case.

 

[outskirtsofinfinity]

I turned off the 'List for "Hey Siri"' setting on my Watch because this became so annoying.

I initially turned off the "autolisten on wrist raise" thing, because of privacy concerns. I may do what you did as well. And rely on the crown. Still, should be so easy for Apple to coordinate all this, if they gave some thought to it. Then again, I thought that charging mat would be easy too....