Why can’t Mac OS Siri handle a simple timer request

[madeirabhoy]

Nearly burned my sausages !

never asked my Mac to time something before as always have my watch or phone to hand and I’ve got a google home as well.

today stuck sausages in the oven. Clicked on Siri on my Mac and said set a timer for 30 mins. Siri cheerily told me it was set.

after an unknown time around 30 mins ish I clicked on Siri and said how Long is left of the timer and Siri said she didn’t know how to answer that.

long story short. Asking her to set a timer just sets an all day reminder called timer rather than timing my sausages !

 

[casperes1996]

Hm. It's bad that it answered that it had set the timer; The intended behaviour is that it tells you it cannot do so on this device, and at least with some phrasings of the request it will do that. - But of course there should be more feature parity between the different Siri devices

 

[madeirabhoy]

Hm. It's bad that it answered that it had set the timer; The intended behaviour is that it tells you it cannot do so on this device, and at least with some phrasings of the request it will do that. - But of course there should be more feature parity between the different Siri devices

just repeated it now.

she says 'done' and it comes up Reminders . timer.

but its like before, an all day reminder called timer

 

[casperes1996]

just repeated it now.

she says 'done' and it comes up Reminders . timer.

but its like before, an all day reminder called timer

I would try it myself with a few different way of phrasing it buuuut.... Yeah, Siri is just completely broken on my Big Sur install at the moment

 

[Taz Mangus]

I just tried to set a timer with Siri on macOS. Siri just added a reminder without any sort of time deadline.