What daily useful thing can Siri do today that it could not do in 2011?

[gold333]

What daily useful thing can Siri do today that it could not do in 2011?

This is a serious question.

I only use Siri to “wake me at”, “Will it rain” and “on X remind me to…” like I did in 2011.

What useful thing (as in potential daily use) can Siri do today that it could not do when it was released?

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

No idea, what I do know is it’s as unreliable now as it was in 2011. Amazon managed to crack the smart assistant concept quicker and better than Apple and that is astonishing considering Apple are a dedicated tech company.

 

[throAU]

tell me to use my iPhone for web results from a HomePod.

 

[wyrdness]

It can tell me the weather. Back when I first used Siri, "Hey Siri, what is the weather today" would respond with "The minimum temperature overnight is xº". Which was absolutely useless as if didn't tell me anything about the actual weather and the minimum overnight temperature was always when I was asleep! Fortunately Siri is a bit more helpful these days.

 

[iStorm]

Some things that were added later are:

• Telling Siri to set/toggle certain settings (dark mode, volume level, brightness level, turn wi-fi on/off, etc.)
• Telling Siri to restart or turn off your phone/iPad
• Some requests can be done offline now (start timers, make notes, add to reminders or calendar, etc.)

I still cannot believe she can't do math questions offline though. She can translate numbers and operations offline (saying "one million five hundred thousand divided by twenty" shows as "1,500,000÷20" on the screen)...so why can't she take that and run it through the calculator? Instead, she tells you to turn off Airplane mode or that you need to be online.

 

[Paddle1]

Using Siri to control HomeKit devices. Can't think of much else.

 

[RichP74]

Third party integration in some situations is really nice. We use AnyList for our shared family grocery list app. "Hey Siri, add bacon to AnyList" throws it on the grocery list. Otherwise I use it to get sports scores when I'm driving.