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Wow so much Siri bashing in here. I’m a daily driver and I suppose an outlier working on a now aging 6S+ but Siri has been way reliable and generally fast outsi
by eltoozero 9y ago
Wow so much Siri bashing in here. I’m a daily driver and I suppose an outlier working on a now aging 6S+ but Siri has been way reliable and generally fast outside of what I’d call “harsh” environments like outside on a busy street or with poor reception.
I’m able to consistently perform:
- Reminders with or without location tags “add eggs to grocery list” “remind me to check oil when I get home”
- Calendar events “create event about mr Smith tomorrow 2pm” “create meeting with bob March 12 noon” (“with” spawns an invite, I use “about”) “move my 2pm meeting to 4pm” “what’s going on tomorrow”
- weather “what’s the weather like this week” “what’s it going to be like in Manhattan beach on Saturday”
- Calls, by name, number or direct to speaker “call my brother” “call 213-555-1212” “call my dad on speakerphone”
- FaceTime “FaceTime my mom”
- Email “Email my brother” Subject? “take out” Message? “Grab me a burger” ready to send? “Yes”
- Messages, one liner or conversationally “tell my brother I’m running late” ready? “Go” or “message my sister” message? “Call me.” Ready to send it? “Affirmative”
- Math “what’s 128 times 10 million?” “What’s 10 days from next Tuesday?”
- Time “what time is it?” “What time is it in Florida?”
- Location “where is my sister?”
- Automation “living room lights blue” “goodnight”
- Dictation “blah period new line I swear exclamation mark new paragraph furthermore comma open parentheses really close parentheses all caps cats are all caps really all caps really cool question mark” I frequently do complicated technical dictation using Siri, it’s not a problem in fact this particular sentence was composed entirely with Siri with zero post correction.
All of these work consistently and reliably, for me, using either PTT style hold and speak, long-press and wait for the beep, or “Hey Siri” invocation.
Seriously, I use all of this all day every day on an old iPhone, I’m not blind but if I was I’d consider it reliable enough for those purposes.
I don’t do a lot of location, navigation, or searches with Siri because generally, performance is not optimal and you’re not able to focus the intent domain clearly enough with consistent verbiage.
- viraptor 9y ago> Location “where is my sister?” How does this one work? Is it just an address lookup, or does it support some location sharing like Google maps?
- matthewmacleod 9y agoSiri integrates with the "find my friends" app, so it's all current-location based. Quite swish.
- mstade 9y agoIn my family we call this the stalker app. It's very good for finding out where specifically where someone is, even in malls and other places you might not expect GPS location to work all that well. (Thanks surveil– I mean wifi!) It is a system where you have to give permission for people to see your location, and you can revoke it at any time should you wish, but it's still real creepy. The good for us (knowing where the immediate family is at pretty much any time) outweighs the bad, but I wouldn't dream of sharing my location like this with a friend – even a very close one – let alone strangers.
- viraptor 9y agoI'm using google maps location sharing for that. It's built-in and easy to toggle. It's pretty useful for knowing when your partner will arrive if they're driving a long way, or for things like "going on a long bike ride, if I break down / go missing, you know where to look".
- eltoozero 9y agoCouple more I also use all the time: - Alarms “set alarm 10am” “set alarm in 2 hours 1 minute about eBay” (you can have as many of these as you want, separate from timer) - app switching “launch deliveries” “launch mail” “open Safari”
- Jdam 9y agoI use it to set the alarm, a pretty basic task. Works in 6/10 cases. This is totally unacceptable in the age of “smart”.
- iDemonix 9y agoAre you doing it wrong? I set my alarm every night with Siri in my 4-year old iPhone 6 and I can't recall ever having an issue...
- kerbalspacepro 9y agoIn 2018, the only two ways you can do something that simple wrong, is by 1) not speaking English at all or 2) say something else completely.
- Jdam 9y agoNeither, nor. The loading bar or what that is called that appears after the text is recognized but it’s waiting for a response just never finishes. And yes, I’m online.
- jacksmith21006 9y agoSiri is just awful and there is just no execuse any longer.
- awiesenhofer 9y ago> or with poor reception. Call me oldfashioned but I find it neither smart nor acceptable to require reception for should-be-simple things like time telling, reminders or math/calculations. The last one always irks me in browsers too, when I try to calculate or convert something in the adressbar and it doesn't do anything because my wifi dropped.
- speg 9y agoFWIW: You can do this with spotlight search without a connection.
- ssully 9y agoI also use it daily and loathe Siri. I went from Android to iOS with the 7 and Siri is my only regret. For every timer I set Siri gets about 1/6th wrong and for every text I try to send (short messages like 'on my way home') are almost a coin flip at this point. My biggest annoyance is Siri just doesn't handle natural language cadence like Alexa or Assistant. Everytime I mess up a Siri query, I end up having to repeat it slowly and loud for her to (maybe) get it right. Google Assistant required no changes in my speech to understand me.
- jacksmith21006 9y agoTry the Google Assistant and you will realize just how bad Siri really is.
- jacksmith21006 9y agoSiri is just horrendous compared to the Google Assistant. But why is it so bad?