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

[kagharaht]

I'm not surprised. Like I said to friends who want to buy this thing. Just keep in mind 2 things.
1: The HomePod by itself or in stereo mode sounds beautiful. Specially with the OG one or 2nd gen. Even the mini sounds great.
2: The Software with Siri is a POS. Absolute POS!!! You will love being frustrated if you have several at home. "This is taking too long" "There is a problem with Apple Music" "I didnt' get that" or it just plays whatever instead of what you asked. One or two HomePods will not play when you ask it to play everywhere, all speakers, every room. Just randomly stops with a speaker and then plays again. What an absolute POS software. Sounds wonderful though...when it works.

 

[Razorpit]

Yes... Sadly, it's a tradition here going back 20 years. It's the only way some people can feel good inside.

Oh ya, we were all feeling terrible about ourselves until this Siri SNAFU appeared. 😄

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

You aren’t the only one. At first I thought I was going to have to start using some flowery Californian, “Siri can you please call my life partner on their iPhone.” But I realized it’s just bad programming.

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

Mine is set to Jive.

 

[SmokyT18]

My favorite Siri times are when you ask her to do something and she tells me I need to unlock my phone first. What’s the point in asking then

 

[cocky jeremy]

I'm still blown away by how many people even find these things useful. I'd rather just do a Google search on my phone.

 

[symphony]

Apple just making Siri ******** before the next event so their new Siri can somewhat appear as improvement, obviously.

 

[bgarnett]

Last night, I was trying to get Siri on HomePod mini to play the Techno playlist in Apple Music, it just couldn’t get it right. Though I should know by now it rarely does.

 

[newyorksole]

what a joke LOL.

I will say that over the past couple of weeks after restarting me 3 HomePods, Siri and the functionality seem much better.

I won’t get my hopes up, but asking for the time, to play a certain song etc have been working well.

it just blows my mind how Apple in all its ability has so much trouble with HomePod and Siri.

 

[VCTGomes]

On HomePodOS 17.3 I could say: "turn on AC", and HomePod would know exactly what AC I'm talking about based where it's installed.

Since HomePod 17.4, this incredible feature stop working and I need to say "Turn off AC" and it'll ask me which room.

That's terrible and I don't see many talking about it.

I updated one of these, but I won't update another HomePod yet.

 

[npmacuser5]

The HomeKit is full of software holes. Simple things like the icon to turn on lights disappears from the app and then comes back. Interesting thing lately, Siri doing better than the App for most operations in controlling home devices. A really annoying set of Apple miss steps.

 

[n-evo]

I'm still blown away by how many people even find these things useful. I'd rather just do a Google search on my phone.

Odd way to check the time, but to each their own I suppose.

 

[goobot]

The amount of things I ask my HomePod that Siri will suddenly have issues with is insane

 

[sgreen314]

I've run into this several times in the past day or so. Good to see the article and understand it wasn't just me. "can you tell me the time?" gives me mixed results right now: I either get the time or 'results on iPhone', answers are skewing to the latter but occasionally I get the former.

edit: A quick repeating test of "What's the time" is giving me mixed results as well. Seemingly random mix of the actual time and 'results on iPhone'. 🤷‍♂️

 

[macduke]

Just today:

Me: “Siri, add apple cinnamon oatmeal to the shopping list”

Siri: “I’ve added apples, cinnamon, and oatmeal to your shopping list”

—

Me: “Siri, turn on the living room corner light”

Siri: “You don’t have any lights setup in the Home app.”

—

Me: “Siri, add chopped, actually no, cancel that request”

Siri: “Ok, I’ve added that to your library.”

I don’t know what she did there on that last one.

Siri is basically unusable nowadays. I find myself using her less and less.

 

[iAppleOrchard]

I just got home, checked to see if it works now, and it works.

Had a friend check it too, and his works now as well. His was affected.

 

[primarycolors]

This is a recurring theme. On CarPlay I ask Siri to "Pause the music" verbatim and it says "Sorry I don't understand!" 😕

 

[XMI]

"Siri, add milk to my grocery list"

This started happening for me about 3 weeks ago.

Amazingly, it only happens about 50% of the time, and only happens on my Apple watch (not on my iPhone or iPad).

Sigh.

 

[rchornef]

I’m very happy for you that Siri worked when it most counted. Unfortunately that is not always the case for lesser things, but I’m glad she saved your home.

Not sure though that this is a reliable way to put out kitchen fires.

 

[HailstormX]

Thought it was just me... was going crazy today on that. I worked around it by asking what time it was in my city.

 

[seek3r]

I'm not surprised. Like I said to friends who want to buy this thing. Just keep in mind 2 things.
1: The HomePod by itself or in stereo mode sounds beautiful. Specially with the OG one or 2nd gen. Even the mini sounds great.
2: The Software with Siri is a POS. Absolute POS!!! You will love being frustrated if you have several at home. "This is taking too long" "There is a problem with Apple Music" "I didnt' get that" or it just plays whatever instead of what you asked. One or two HomePods will not play when you ask it to play everywhere, all speakers, every room. Just randomly stops with a speaker and then plays again. What an absolute POS software. Sounds wonderful though...when it works.

honestly there was an update a few months back and nearly all my homepod problems along those lines vanished

 

[kirk.vino]

That’s one of those groundbreaking AI features that Tim keeps talking about lol

 

[InsideApple]

Germany as well...

Wasn scheiss ey..so peinlich..

 

[ric22]

Siri is awful, it’s basically the metric by which I judge Apple software quality. The unwillingness of that company to fix things they cannot possibly be unaware of if comedic. And this is how Tim drives things. Siri isn’t a subscription based item, so it gets little attention. I wouldn’t discount them lumping Siri pro into iCloud or something because their drive is one of complacency for a while now in this realm.

I agree. It's incomprehensible how crap Siri still is

 

[ric22]

Germany as well...

Couldn't replicate the problem in Munich today.

 

[newdeal]

I turned on an alarm with Siri, then asked it to do something, can't remember what, with the alarm. What I can remember is it sounded nothing at all like delete my alarm but yet that is just what Siri decided I wanted to do

 

[mlenger]

Shameful what Apple SW has become.