Siri

“The #1 reason is while driving. It's also the only reason I have Siri enabled at all since you can't use CarPlay without enabling it.”

“SIRI is really very ordinary, many basic functions that one would guess would be simple like asking it to click on a button that is visible in the UI are hit/miss or do the wrong thing.”

“with a decent index of your personal data in a relatively secure and private fashion”

“Siri has helped me with my clinical ADHD’s executive function failure by allowing me to create todo lists and appointments”

“It couldn’t find a file that I know for a fact is on my iCloud, but never had a single problem setting up alarms for any time.”

“She fails maybe 20% of the time, in that the audible portion of the alarm may not return after the snooze period.”

“have functioned perfectly well (aside from having a hard time when i mumble) for years on non-AI versions of Siri”

“from all accounts of the public beta, it's pretty decent, and an enormous upgrade from the current/old Siri”

“It brings up a preview of the email and you have to tap or tell it to send it from there but otherwise it worked for this as well.”

“The Siri situation is just absolutely pathetic and no amount of bad press about OpenAI is going to change the fact that Apple neglecting Siri for a decade now”

“With what they announced for the changes in Siri, I'm betting a lot of average AI users will just use Siri”

“Siri was arguably better a decade ago when it has deterministic intents that you could trigger with certainty, now it is all seemingly random at time.”

“If the price for some sort of functioning Siri is my privacy, I’m happy with the current dumb Siri”

“we cannot offer this in the EU because we want to shut out competitors from providing alternative LLMs”

““Siri” has a pretty strong cultural association with being underwhelming or unhelpful.”

“Having AI as a user interface is way more interesting than chat bots, image editors, or copy editing.”

“I actually have decent luck with the current Siri, but I don't push it very much and have sort of adapted myself to its limitations”

“Siri is occasionally useful in the car if I'm by myself but mostly in the better than nothing sense.”

“I mean.. Siri basically works? When I'm driving I say "Hey Siri, find me a gas station along my route", and it does.”

“Siri frequently mishears my wife who's from California but doesn't have what I would call an accent any different from mine”

“I routinely control my home (shades, lights, fans), set reminders for myself, set timers while cooking”

“Most of the time it fails because it plays the wrong song, cannot understand what I say or just refuse to play and ask me to unlock the phone”

“Designed my entire house around Siri with HomePods in every room. Would be great if it could do more.”

“I personally regularly use the "push to activate" Siri for quickly setting up meetings et al.”

“When you have to say the exact right words to Siri, or else she will add “Meeting at 10” as an all day calendar event, people get frustrated”

“This is actually one of the issues with Siri today - that context changes the behavior of the command and control engine in interesting ways”

“Siri was one of the leading voice-automated assistants of the past decade, and now Apple's only options are to strap on an existing solution”

“The current Siri is more than adequate for responding to texts and calling while driving.”

“Siri is extremely useful. That is, if your use cases are limited to: setting a timer”

“When I'm driving and tell Siri, "Call ", sometimes instead of calling, it says, "To who?", and I can't get it to call no matter what I do.”

“At least Siri guarantees the privacy of my data and uses a local model directly on my device”

“None of Vision Pro, Siri, Apple Intelligence or even macOS itself anymore appear to be products the execs themselves rely on deeply”

“if you're trying to use hands-free voice activation via "hey Siri" you get a much different experience”

“The one caveat is that once the timer you want is two and a half hours or longer, then Siri replies by asking what you would like to convert to.”

“I almost entirely use Siri to get directions to places using Google maps with my voice when I'm on CarPlay.”

“half the time it's "a screenshot of a social media post" - c'mon, read the damn text from the screenshot at least!”

“completely flatlined with things to do beyond calling the wrong person in your call list, setting timers, and playing the wrong song”

“Also quite good for making shopping lists, with some bonus amusement when you get a weird transcription”

“It generally takes on the second try but a good 30% of the time I'm getting the same acknowledgement it's getting directions and then just silently failing.”

“I set timers constantly both at home and work and I can’t recall a single time it hasn’t worked.”