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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. 

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.

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

Absolutely. 

But Apple has two devices out that are almost totally dependent on salary. The HomePod, and to a large extent the Apple Watch. Unless a person has really good eyesight, you need to use Siri to do many things on the watch. I don’t think it’s a new AR/VR device is going to make any difference. But I truly hope I’m wrong. 

I wonder if it would be possible for Apple to let us choose which version of Siri we would like to have on our devices. You could, for example choose Siri one or Siri two, one of which would be able to delve into our devices, and perhaps risk our privacy just a little. If Apple keeps taking away features because they’ve decided that they aren’t good for privacy very well. Let us make the choice as we do on so many aspects of our devices. I want privacy, but I also, as I said, before, as an elderly person, really appreciate Siri being able to do more things for me. I’d like for Siri to be able to tell me the pollen count and type for example, based on my location.  Location services is a feature  I choose to turn on so Siri could be more helpful. I’m getting pretty frustrated with the features being taken away. Another example is that I used to be able to have Siri add something to a note. It no longer can do that. If Apple chooses to take away features, they ought to let us know that they are gone and not have us keep trying to figure out what we’re doing wrong.