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  • Future HomeKit could track you through your house and predict your needs

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    Much as I would love to have Siri be as competent as Jarvis in being my virtual assistant, I’d rather be able to ask Siri first instead of having the automation anticipate my needs. In no way, would I ever let automation control the door to my home, or control a heating device in my home. If I tell Siri to turn the heat on, that’s one thing, for it to just assume that I want it turned on because the temperature drops below 65° at my house is another. I am an elderly lady, so having these devices carry out my needs is very attractive, and I have smart plugs to get Siri to tell them to do that, but I definitely, don’t want to do it on an anticipatory basis. 
    FileMakerFellerdecoderringwatto_cobraAlex1Nwilliamlondon

  • Apple to hold first in-person summit in years, focused on AI

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    ravnorodom said:
    That ChatGPT thingie creates some serious ripple effects.
    I hope one of these ripple effects will be that Apple gets the impetus to seriously improve Siri. My latest aggravation is that although I have been able to say “speak screen” , and Siri would do it suddenly one day it stopped doing it. I had several conversations with Apple support and we could not get it to speak screen again. “ sorry, there’s nothing to read here.”.  Also, recently, when I ask Siri to read my calendar for tomorrow it will just tell me how many events I have for tomorrow, and will not read out what they are like it was doing. The sudden disruptions in service are very annoying especially when you end up spending days on different forums  trying to find out if Apple has merely taken away a function, as they did, when Siri used to be able to search your photos for objects, dates, etc. or if it is a problem with your device.
    ravnorodomFileMakerFellerwatto_cobrabyronl

  • Apple resurrects full-size HomePod with updated acoustics

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    Afganblues said: “I really do not understand why Apple won’t allow something like “hey HomePod” instead of hey Siri for everything. “




    Absolutely. 

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  • Apple works on waking Siri without the 'Hey'

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    bonobob said:
    I had never thought to ask Siri to read my notifications. So I said “Read my notifications” and it did so.  iPadOS 16.1.  I have no idea why it wouldn’t work for you. 
    Bono Bob,
    Thank you so very much for answering my post. Prior to your answer, I thought that function was just yet another example of Apple, taking away functions from Siri and not mentioning it, the way they did, when they took away Siri’s, ability to search, photos by location, date, and objects. You let me know that the problem was on my device alone so I restarted it and it reads notifications now. This is a big help to me, because as an older woman, sometimes it takes me a lot of time and stiffness to get up out of bed and so meanwhile I have Siri read my notifications for the day and my daily update. I thought that function was gone. Thanks for letting me know just to restart that  iPad. 
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • Apple works on waking Siri without the 'Hey'

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    Is anybody able to get Siri to read notifications on the iPad anymore? In iPadOS 15 and before I could ask Siri to read my notifications. She doesn’t do that anymore, or am I mistaken? That was a pretty vital function for me.
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