Siri on HomePod Seems to Have Forgotten How to Give the Time

[n-evo]

There was a whole time where I couldn't ask in Dutch "Welke dag is het? (What day is it?)" if I wanted more than a web search referral. I had to specially ask "Wat is de datum? (What is the date?) to get a real response. It's baffling how Siri still struggles with the simplest of questions or seems to randomly forget stuff. Lately it seems to understand "Welke dag is het" again though.

Well, let's see... you "tell Siri" ... that could be where things are going wrong? She's not your personal slave. Treat her with respect by asking, not telling, and maybe she'll respond more positively?

"Hey Siri, would you mind kindly changing my wake-up alarm?..., when you have time."

...please!

Maybe begging will do the trick?

 

[DaPhox]

I usually cringe when people use 'embarrasing for...' as a way of criticising something, but on this occasion I think it's totally apt.

Same here when people use the word ”cringe”…

 

[citysnaps]

...

IMO... Apple cancelled their car project because it became clear to management they would not be able to compete on cost/price with all of the Chinese EV manufacturers who will soon have dealerships in western markets, and selling EVs at prices Apple couldn't compete with.

I'm guessing that's also what's driving Musk's recent moves regarding Tesla.

 

[Rockin Robin]

I use Alexa for any switching. Anything tricky and I am invited to look at a link. It rarely copes with anything other than calling a friend with first name and surname. Hapless.

 

[magnamaduin]

Connecting the Phillips Hue to HomeKit was pretty painless. Reverting colors with a voice comand however...

"Hey, Siri, set [light name] to regular color."

"What color would you like to set?"

"Regular"

It understands "regular" in the response but not in the request. But Regular is the only word that works at all for it. It doesn't understand "default", "normal", "standard", etc.

HOWEVER, all those words work fine the first time if I ask Siri to CHANGE the color instead of SETTING it. Which... why?

 

[TracerAnalog]

‘Siri, tell me a joke’
‘The time is now 11:45 PM’

 

[klasma]

Why would the Homepod need to talk to a server to relay the time? I just put my phone in airplane mode and asked it the time and it was able to tell me using its internal clock.

It's INSANE that such a simple request would require a server.

They are probably skimping on the processing power and storage/RAM on the HomePod.

 

[BB1970]

Fixed

 

[vegetassj4]

Hey Siri, What time is it?

Siri: I found this on the web

 

[Onelifenofear]

It worked great for me for music, home stuff and general maths etc... but the last month has just gone crazy. I guess they are screwing with the hooks for the launch at WWDC.... I hope.

 

[Sai Zelion]

Siri is so bad it seems intentional.

 

[klasma]

Siri is so bad it seems intentional.

Maybe Google is paying them $20B for it.

 

[klasma]

Not working yet for me.

Yep, Siri is still offering web results for me.

 

[klasma]

This happened to me this morning. I thought i was going insane.

Yeah, I was still half asleep and thinking why is Siri reading me a Wikipedia article!?

 

[Eriamjh1138@DAN]

Sometimes Siri/my watch forgets who "my wife" is one request to the next.

 

[gatorvet96]

Siri is a dingbat!

 

[Myndmelt]

Yep, Siri is still offering web results for me.

I just tried my OGs and she responded with the time. However a few hours ago it would continually say I’ve found some web results..

 

[Larsvonhier]

Can confirm this issue in Switzerland.

Germany as well...

 

[ifxf]

Apple should just end of life Siri and allow third party assistants

 

[tipoo]

Magic AI company

Seriously did Apple gut all their software QA like 10 years ago?

 

[mxrider88]

Progress

 

[Lioness~]

Consider myself lucky, I disabled that crap years ago on all my devices.
But Siri is hard to kill, she pops up now and then and irritate me, despite being turned off.
That Apple hasn't come further with this, say unfortunately a lot of the company.

 

[seek3r]

Bugs happen, but this is indicative of a larger problem. Siri is a dumpster fire.

Hopefully this is some kind of bug related to internal testing of a complete overhaul of Siri’s backend and will result in a new golden age of AI.

My literal first thought was "this sounds like someone was testing in prod"

 

[mcic1984]

No, "What time is it?" didn't work for me either; instead, Siri told me that it is the opening musical number from the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical 2.

 

[Windoes]

It works perfectly, if you set your HomePod to speak Gibberish, as I do myself too