Siri has languished in nifty feature hell. Apple bought it to look futuristic but hasn't made it useful.
"Hey Siri, check my messages on WhatsApp"
"You'll have to unlock your phone"
If I could handle the phone right now I wouldn't be asking....
"hey Siri, what commands do you know?"
"I can't do that."
"Hey Siri, remind me to call Bill on Thursday" (tiny pause before on Thursday with continuation sounds like "uh")
"Ok I set a reminder to call Bill."
"Change to Call Bill on Thursday"
[Adds "On Thursday" to the title]
All of these things are much better handled by Alexa or Google. Alexa does need a two word command introducer though. It joins into conversations randomly by mistaking words for "Alexa".
- open an app. (Say Apple Podcasts, otherwise it'll open deezer)
- call a contact (but randomly replaces your most frequently called person with someone I've spoken 10+ years ago)
- set a timer
- set an alarm
that's really it. Reminders work like shit, exactly like you said.
If siri doesn't know what to do with a contact, it asks you what you wanna do, and then doesn't understand it. I turn all this crap off as much as I can. Just a bunch of wasted dev-time, battery-time, and chip/die realestate which could be used for anything else.
"Hey Siri, check my messages on WhatsApp"
"You'll have to unlock your phone"
If I could handle the phone right now I wouldn't be asking....
"hey Siri, what commands do you know?"
"I can't do that."
"Hey Siri, remind me to call Bill on Thursday" (tiny pause before on Thursday with continuation sounds like "uh")
"Ok I set a reminder to call Bill."
"Change to Call Bill on Thursday"
[Adds "On Thursday" to the title]
All of these things are much better handled by Alexa or Google. Alexa does need a two word command introducer though. It joins into conversations randomly by mistaking words for "Alexa".