Nothing to fear. It has a bionic chip that allows it to do all voice processing inside the display without sending any recordings to Apple.
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Studio Display Enables 'Hey Siri' on Several Older Macs
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Also Siri is *much* better on devices with a machine learning chip. It is to the extent that I might replace my HomePods if Apple releases a bionic model.
I use both and I can tell you for fact that Assistant is not that far ahead. Yes, Assistant is better at answering off the wall questions but for everything else they are pretty equal. For controlling my smart home devices Siri is actually ahead of Assistant. For doing actual assistant stuff like emails, text, phone call, alarms, reminders, calendar entries Siri and Assistant are equal. So stop being such a fanboy.
Honestly Apple should have gone dual camera in this display just for the web cam. One wide lens and one portrait lens. Hopefully they correct that in a future pro model.
Ok, apologies, seems like you were referring to the fact it doesn't work either versus his comment. Sorry about that!
Ask both assistants something like "what battery does the canon eos r use?" and you'll know what I mean. Stop being such a fanboy.
I think I’m misunderstanding the different meanings here. One person said this seems to be an issue during “set up” and you’ve mentioned “try to enable” and “switched on”.
This wording still leaves open the possibility that it might work if you enable it/switch on (set up and turn on) *prior to* closing the lid.
Can you clarify? Does it turn off again as soon as the lid is closed?
When the lid is closed it is automatically deselected. That's the issue - I'm unable to turn it back on until the lid is open.
I use Siri more and more every day.
Siri works surprisingly well when using APP or AP3, and when you set up several Shortcuts with commands for Siri it actually becomes a time saver for a lot of tasks.
Replying to texts and controlling music playback during running using Siri is also really great. Or in the car.
On that note, I definitely understand why most don't use Siri as it really doesn't work nearly as good without APP or AP3.
For me, the "Siri sucks" days are definitely over.
I feel like it's really solid for the most part, and seemingly learns to adapt to my voice too.
I'm unsure what exactly makes Siri respond faster or slower. But sometimes I'm caught off guard at just how fast the response is even at times when I unintentionally mumble my speak or when I'm too out of breath to speak clearly.
Having a way to interact with my Mac or phone 100% hands and eyes free is quite the game changer even if there still are quite substantial limits to Siri's capabilities.
I feel like it's really solid for the most part, and seemingly learns to adapt to my voice too.
I'm unsure what exactly makes Siri respond faster or slower. But sometimes I'm caught off guard at just how fast the response is even at times when I unintentionally mumble my speak or when I'm too out of breath to speak clearly.
Having a way to interact with my Mac or phone 100% hands and eyes free is quite the game changer even if there still are quite substantial limits to Siri's capabilities.
what happens when i have my iphone laying beside the monitor, two different apple ids (work, privat) and i say „hey siri“?
I'm sure there is someone out there who is thrilled about this feature but I haven't found much use for hey Siri outside of my iPhone. Even on my iPhone I don't use it that often, occasionally I'll have it read out a text if I'm driving or tell it to end the navigation on Apple Maps when I don't need it. I haven't really used regular Siri on my Mac, the few times I did try to use it I always got a web search. I just don't think these digital assistants are as useful or advanced as some think they are.
That's not to say there aren't other reasons to have this display.
That's not to say there aren't other reasons to have this display.
You know what you’re right Google assistant does have another feature you get spied on.
It’s definitely true. Apple withholds software features from old devices all the time. They even remove existing features to make old devices have degrading user experience. For example, removing subpixel antialiasing from fonts to make pre-Retina iMacs look like ?
Sure. But not in the case of Hey Siri. On iPhones you need the M9 coprocessor, because you need the computational resources to always have the mic on without draining the battery. And on Mac the T2 processor.