Siri has been getting worse since 2012? ...2016?

[DavidInSydney]

Are you tired of Siri...

1. randomly adding words at the beginning of the sentence (I get “Utan” and “Cause”... why!?)
2. getting wording correct and then changing it... changing it back... changing it again? The words are dancing around.
3. changing the wording at the last moment as you hit the send button?
4. suddenly not being able hear a simple word correctly?

Would like to hear how others are getting on with Siri, if they’re having the same problems, or different problems, if they find Siri useful or they’ve given up or never used it.

There’s a poll below, I’m sure it could be improved.

 

[StumpyBloke]

I despise Siri! Apple should be thoroughly ashamed at how absolute crap it is. It is slow, unreliable, inaccurate.

 

[Adamson121]

I'm not sure if this is a fault on Siri's end. But I usually set my alarm through siri. It was around 9pm when I made a command to set an alarm to 4. Woke up at 6am and missed my appointment that time. Siri did set an alarm to 4, but 4pm 🙈 . I sort of assumed that siri would set the alarm to the closest period (am/pm) that the command can match

 

[DukeSilver79]

Did it get worse, or did other services just pass it? I do agree that it’s bad, though.

 

[one more]

I first tried Siri with iOS 12, mostly to ask it to play some music or call somebody while I was driving. It worked quite well back then. Then at some point in iOS 13 it got worse for me and became a total disaster in iOS 14, when they introduced a nice small psychedelic animation for it. I totally gave up on it now, as it does not make sense if I constantly need to double-check or correct it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[StumpyBloke]

Did it get worse, or did other services just pass it? I do agree that it’s bad, though.

Good point. Maybe a bit of both, but certainly the latter. Alexa leaves it for dust, and I’m convinced its less reliable now, but that could be my insane hatred clouding any adult opinions of it!

 

[MisterSavage]

It is frustrating when Siri initially translates the message you said and then you watch it get changed to something incorrect.

I think Siri is drastically better when you're asking it questions. Siri used to just say "here's what I found on the web" and not say anything else. Now Siri reads out answers.

 

[7thson]

On the whole, I’m underwhelmed with Siri. Has it gotten worse? I guess, I dunno, it was never very good. I think the bigger frustration for me is the scattershot reliability of it. Seldom works reliably on cellular and when I query Siri with my iPhone, which I’m holding in my hand, my iPad, which is ten feet away, will chime to attention. Not exactly confidence inspiring.

 

[primarycolors]

I used to defend Siri but lately I've been shocked how it fails to carry out basic requests, even when it does parse my words correctly. These all happened to me in the last couple weeks.

I also asked him to "remind me when I wake up to mail the decals," hoping to be reminded around the time I wake up to 'pack the decals.'

Instead Siri created a reminder with no alert notification, called "When I wake up to pack thirty cows"...

 

[Canyda]

I used Siri yesterday to give me driving directions to a local place and it paused, said it was working on it, and then just quit. I typed the same local place into Apple Maps and it pulled it up instantly.

 

[Wildkraut]

Siri is plain stupid, I rarely have usage for it, and when there is a usage, it does not work well.
Had an Android for about 8 Months and OK Google worked much much better.
The Google version even understands multi-language.
I asked Google in Portuguese, and Google answered in Portuguese, I asked in German and it answered in German, i asked in English and I got an English reply. If your iPhone is setup to English, and you're in Italy, good luck trying to ask Siri to route you to some Italian named street. Siri is pure garbage.

 

[vinegarshots]

Apple has a simple solution to their Siri problem. Pay Apple users to share their data to improve Siri.

Google gives people products in exchange for their data. Apple is all about privacy, so why don't they just give people money in exchange for their data? Call it the cost of developing a usable virtual assistant.

 

[diane143]

Are you tired of Siri...

1. randomly adding words at the beginning of the sentence (I get “Utan” and “Cause”... why!?)
2. getting wording correct and then changing it... changing it back... changing it again? The words are dancing around.
3. changing the wording at the last moment as you hit the send button?
4. suddenly not being able hear a simple word correctly?

Would like to hear how others are getting on with Siri, if they’re having the same problems, or different problems, if they find Siri useful or they’ve given up or never used it.

There’s a poll below, I’m sure it could be improved.

Yes! And she sometimes has problems doing things, just spins and finally says she's having trouble.

One of the things that drives me really crazy is "Hey Siri play music" "I can't do that because you're not playing music" ARGH

She definitely has good and bad days. Sometimes I have text conversations while on my bike and I have to apologize in advance for any weird things I may have typed that I can't see as the phone is in my pocket.

She has potential but sheesh!!

 

[MBAir2010]

"Siri has been getting worse since 2012? ...2016?"
okay, i will let Siri know!

 

[Canyda]

I just realized today I also have the weird Siri bug where she talks and then just ... stops. Often mid-word.

 

[sactownbwoy]

I ride a motorcycle and used to be able to use Siri to send a text or reply to a text. Now when I go to initiate a text, she will say "you need to unlock your phone". Never had that problem before. Not sure when it started but Siri is straight garbage.

 

[BasilFawlty]

I despise Siri! Apple should be thoroughly ashamed at how absolute crap it is. It is slow, unreliable, inaccurate.

I actually came here to post a complaint about Siri, but then saw this post. Recently I have noticed (probably with update to ios 14, maybe earlier) that Siri doesn't understand my very clear requests - requests that it used to understand with no issue. For example, when I want to call home, using CarPlay, I will activate Siri and say "Call (my name) home." Siri used to just say "Calling (my name), home". Then, somewhere along the line, Siri started asking "Did you mean (my name)? And I have to say "yes." Now, however, when I say "Call (my name) home", Siri insists that it can't find a number for (my name) in contacts. VERY frustrating.

Earlier today I was having the issuse and, after the third try, I got frustrated and said "F"bomb you, Siri". Siri said, "I won't respond to that." LOL

 

[George Dawes]

It also listens into your conversations - spooky

Try using it on AppleTV - that's a combination of hilarious and annoying

 

[noanker]

Siri has never been ready for prime time. When they revealed the HomePod Minis last year, I was thrilled that perhaps they had improved Siri, at least the product reveal suggested that.

But no, it is still the flaming dumpster fire it has always been and shows no signs of improvement. Google Assistant is moderately better, but a dumpster fire in its own right.

I'm still perplexed that silence unknown callers works on the iPhone but the 'feature' still rings unknown calls on iPad. That should've been an easy fix.

Apple seems more preoccupied with introducing emoji that has user-selectable skin tone because that's what buyers *really* need.

 

[diane143]

I actually came here to post a complaint about Siri, but then saw this post. Recently I have noticed (probably with update to ios 14, maybe earlier) that Siri doesn't understand my very clear requests - requests that it used to understand with no issue. For example, when I want to call home, using CarPlay, I will activate Siri and say "Call (my name) home." Siri used to just say "Calling (my name), home". Then, somewhere along the line, Siri started asking "Did you mean (my name)? And I have to say "yes." Now, however, when I say "Call (my name) home", Siri insists that it can't find a number for (my name) in contacts. VERY frustrating.

Earlier today I was having the issuse and, after the third try, I got frustrated and said "F"bomb you, Siri". Siri said, "I won't respind to that." LOL

Siri's been having a rough week for sure. Most of what I've asked her to do today, she doesn't even start by voice. If I'm lucky I can activate her with the button, but I tend to use her because my hands are full or dirty.

Maybe a year ago I started having the issue you mentioned with just one of my contacts. "Hey Siri, call Joe." "Did you mean Joe?" (I only have one)

Lately I have no idea what's happening. I ask her to call someone, and she will say "calling xyz" "I'm sorry I can't use that number to call xyz". I check the number to see if the area code is missing or something (which is silly as it's a number I call often) and it's fine. And this isn't happening on just one or two numbers and it doesn't happen all the time.

 

[actcyclist]

It’s just easier to turn Siri off. Aside from the constant errors causing me to have to use my screen anyway, I disliked the tone deaf familiarity and verbosity of it.

 

[DavidInSydney]

Siri is getting worse. A few weeks ago I said "Remind me to call Marulie about 12pm" and it came up with...

Meryl is our 84 year old neighbour.

 

[BasilFawlty]

Siri is getting worse. A few weeks ago I said "Remind me to call Marulie about 12pm"

One time I asked Siri to "Call Dave M....". Siri responded, "I'm sorry, I don't see a "Baby Girl" in your contacts."