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Siri Still Struggles to Answer Very Basic Questions

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Siri launched on the iPhone 4S all the way back in 2011, and yet it still struggles to answer some of the most basic questions.

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Daring Fireball's John Gruber today highlighted a recent post from a Reddit user who asked Siri what month it is, only for Siri to respond that it does not understand. This is a frustrating experience that many iPhone users are all too familiar with, as evidenced by the dozens of replies to the post that provide similar examples of Siri being useless.

Apple recently delayed the more personalized version of Siri that it previewed at WWDC last year, with the reported reason being that the new features did not work reliably enough. But, the regular Siri that we already have is frustratingly bad, so perhaps Apple should focus on fixing that core before adding new features on top.

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Literally, okay? Dozens of Siri devices around me at all times, yes, it occasionally has goofs like this but 90% of the time everything is fine, response to turning on every light perfectly, the weather, timers, etc. Could it be better? Sure. And I’m sure it will be. It certainly hasn’t regressed as people love to say.
 
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Literally, okay? Dozens of Siri devices around me at all times, yes, it occasionally has goofs like this but 90% of the time everything is fine, response to turning on every light perfectly, the weather, timers, etc. Could it be better? Sure. And I’m sure it will be. It certainly hasn’t regressed as people love to say.
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Yes but that wouldn't allow the click and traffic machine to keep running. Also, all other voice assistants are perfect and never have any jank at all.
 
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MacRumors said:


Siri launched on the iPhone 4S all the way back in 2011, and yet it still struggles to answer some of the most basic questions.

Sad-Siri-Feature.jpg

Daring Fireball's John Gruber today highlighted a recent post from a Reddit user who asked Siri what month it is, only for Siri to respond that it does not understand. This is a frustrating experience that many iPhone users are all too familiar with, as evidenced by the dozens of replies to the post that provide similar examples of Siri being useless.

Apple recently delayed the more personalized version of Siri that it previewed at WWDC last year, with the reported reason being that the new features did not work reliably enough. But, the regular Siri that we already have is already frustratingly bad, so perhaps Apple should focus on fixing that core before adding new features on top.

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I'm in china and we don't get apple intelligence yet, we were quite disappointed but seeing our american friends also cannot make use of it makes us not that disappointed after all.
 
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Think|Different said:
Literally, okay? Dozens of Siri devices around me at all times, yes, it occasionally has goofs like this but 90% of the time everything is fine, response to turning on every light perfectly, the weather, timers, etc. Could it be better? Sure. And I’m sure it will be. It certainly hasn’t regressed as people love to say.
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It’s fine for automation, but if you ask HomePod anything that would require it to perform a search query it just tells you to ask Siri on your iPhone. My fairly old Google Home provides the answer very easily.
 
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Siri may not understand “what month is it” but it is correct when you ask “what day is it”.

Yesterday I didn’t know where my iPhone was. I asked Siri on my Watch Ultra to locate my iPhone. Siri did locate it.

I was driving on a highway. I asked Siri how much longer to the next city. Siri gave a successful reply.

Siri does many things successfully.
 
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I was using Smart Life to control a few smart plugs around the house. Three had names of HW 10, HW 30 and HW 60 for the automations they performed. They all used to work fine with Siri until last year sometime when out of nowhere Siri couldn't find them anymore. So it is getting worse.

Now I'm switching over to Home Assistant and using the Homekit integration so I can use Apple Home. Tonight was playing around making an automation in Shortcuts. So decided to try one with Siri. It found and started the automation shortcut fine but halfway through Siri said something went wrong and to try again even though the shortcut was running as programmed. Sucks because it could be so useful.
 
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