Users report sharply divergent experiences with the new Siri
4 Sep 21 5:46 PM · 2d ago · 2 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 4
Some commenters praise the new Siri for searching and acting on local data, while others say it performs worse than before, citing failures on basic queries like weather and air quality.
“The new Siri was worse for everything I use it for before I turned it off... new Siri would hallucinate an incorrect and fixed value.”
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I get that these are things you might do regularly and feel more empowered to use Siri for them... but they're rather banal and could be done with literally a one or two step process previously, especially if you're already using Apple's first-party apps which seem to be a requirement here. In both email cases, Spotlight handles searches like that…
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> I'll say they definitely need to let people disable/offload the modelIf you have used mac/iOS (esp. Mac; well, because on iOS you can't do anything other than what's on screen essentially) for a long time you might realise Apple, at this point, is simply not capable of even developing those features that will allow users to do such things. And…
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Our experiences diverge surprisingly far. The new Siri was worse for everything I use it for before I turned it off.The new Siri can not reliably return the weather (it seems it's prompting on the literal text of the town and asks for a clarification sometimes about whether I am in the United States or United Kingdom), and when I ask "what is the…
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Tried new Siri to set the timer when cooking- it failed to deliver.First, it’s unreliable in when to say what you want after Hey Siri, then it just didn’t do anything, and the third time it silently set the timer but didn’t confirm anything so I have then set another timer manually to only find out later that they both run.Hard to trust this…
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> "What was the quote for my insurance claim?" - it'll look through your emails and pull the number with the source email so you can jump right to it.> The other day I asked "when did I arrive and leave Mexico City on my trip at the end of 2024?" and it nailed it based off my flight receipt.Where you see convenience, I see a security nightmare.
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Worth pointing out that the Foundational Models can be used by more than just Siri - apps, shortcuts, etc can call/run those models for local inference.
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