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> I want my $1300 phone to answer me when it’s sitting 3 feet away from me. Is this a problem you have? I'm able to reliably use Siri on my phone from up to ma
by DonaldPShimoda 8y ago
> I want my $1300 phone to answer me when it’s sitting 3 feet away from me.
Is this a problem you have? I'm able to reliably use Siri on my phone from up to maybe 2-3 feet away in a moderately noisy environment (casual conversation around a table) with almost no issue, and I can easily use it up to 10+ feet away in a quiet environment. I've had this success since the 7+ at least (when I tested it), but I've continued to see such performance on the X and XS Max.
- melling 8y agoTry saying: “Hey Siri, create a 10 second timer” “Hey Siri, play some Rolling Stones” Find yourself picking up the phone to stop these two actions?
- gok 8y agoHm are you sure you have `Listen for "Hey Siri"` on?
- melling 8y agoYes. Siri will respond to those two questions. Did you try each then try to stop them with Siri?
- gok 8y agoOh oh I see you're saying the requests you listed work but "hey Siri stop the timer" and "hey Siri stop the music" don't
- threeseed 8y agoWhich absolutely does work. Not really sure what the OP means here.
- melling 8y agoWell, the timer does sort of work... but NOT REALLY. I tried it several times. It worked 4 out of 5 times on the phone. You know what it doesn't do? It doesn't stop the timer on my Apple Watch, which keeps buzzing even after my phone stops. The Watch stops if I press the button, I couldn't get the Music to work. So, can we be done? I have a couple of Amazon Echos. They just work as a hands-free voice activated device.
- threeseed 8y agoI just have a HomePod but I have told Siri to start/stop the music literally every morning since I bought it.
- gok 8y agoI think he's running into the issue that when the phone is playing loud audio through the speakers, it has trouble picking up voice over that. iPhones don't have the same audio separation hardware as HomePods.
- fastball 8y agoYes, this is why my initial comment was a bit snarky. GP wants his phone to have properties it fundamentally cannot have, and is not expecting that of any other phone.