I’m a woodworker and work with my AirPods on in the shop. Instead of pulling out my phone for calculator, I like to ask Siri, but she makes an unintelligible answer. For example, I want to add 3-3/8 + 2-5/16, so I say, “hey siri, what is three and three eighths plus two and five sixteenths?” And she responds with “three plus three over eight plus two plus five over sixteen equals five point three seven five” which sounds like she’s just throwing a million digits at you, and while you might catch the result at the end, it’s difficult to confirm she’s heard the original numbers correctly. It’s much worse when there are 3 or more fractions.

So my question is: is there a better way to word the question or a better method (maybe an app that can parse the Siri response) for doing this over Siri? Secondly, is there a way to have her respond as a fraction? That would be much more useful than the decimal she provides.

Why does Siri on my HomePods mini connected to my Apple TV in the kitchen respond so…

Me: Hey Siri open iPlayer on the Kitchen TV

Siri: I found some web results…..

However if I am in the bedroom and ask it to open iPlayer on the Bedroom TV it works just fine.

Annoying or what?

This morning while commuting I thought I’d see if “mute navigation” would allow Siri to mute navigation without me needing to touch the screen (trying to do as many things hands free as possible). My podcast stopped, and I couldn’t get it to restart, nor could I hear music that Siri claimed she was playing. I rebooted my phone, hoping that would fix it, but no luck.

I have a 2015 Mazda5, so nothing fancy. I decided to unpair Bluetooth, but now I can’t get it to repair. Argh! Troubleshooting that one.

Any idea what Siri actually did when I gave her that command? I hope I didn’t mess anything else up.

Suddenly I can't say "Siri [run a shortcut]" when my AirPods Pro 2nd Gen are in my ears. I have an iPhone 14. I've tried restarting my phone, resetting my AirPods, but nothing. Also, I was able to record my voice using Voice Memos on my phone with my AirPods connected, so I know the microphone works.

This has been going on for the last few days, but hadn't been a problem until then. The only thing I can think of that I've done differently the past few days was, at one point, I held the side button on my phone and opened up the Type to Siri because I couldn't use my voice at that moment—but it seems unlikely that would permanently disable speaking to Siri on my AirPods?

Can anyone offer me a solution?

Since the release of Apple Intelligence using my smart lights at home has been abysmal between the HomePod and iPhone. For example, my living room lights are called "lights" and whenever I ask for them to be turned off, the HomePod does it immediately but when it's funneled to my phone I get "there are no lights in your home, do you want to turn on the flashlight?". I've had this setup for over 2 years now and it's becoming annoying having to cover my phone or take off my AirPods when wanting to turn off the lights. Does anyone have any tips on how to improve this besides turning off Apple Intelligence?

(Reposting here because of removal in r / ios :/ ) Nothin much here, Im just ranting a little about how I miss the iOS 17 Siri. I would ask it something then it would answer, then I would say thank you and it would say you’re welcome back and it would go off my screen. but in 18 it doesn’t do it anymore. It’s a minuscule thing to complain about but it’s a small thing that made me feel good

I am male. I hv noticed that siri in my phone gets triggered by almost an male voice that says hey siri unlike google assistant wherein it gets triggered to only my specific voice while using android.

Due to this i cannot give access to siri to perform specific tasks like reading out messages or whatsapp and such which reduces the functionality as almost anyone can access it.

I hv tried registering my voice multiple times but still it does the same. Is it only me or its an apple problem?

Can I use Siri to add to a talky? I’d like to say “Siri, add one to ____” or “Siri, increase counter for _____”. At the end of the day, I’d like pull up the tally and see what it’s up to. I only need this for a couple of months, if that opens up my options.

Seems like this still isn’t possible with any apps? What about using Notes, could that somehow help? It sounds silly when I say it’s too much effort for me to open an app and increase some counter there. But I know I won’t do it.

“Hey siri when is the snow going to stop” Siri : yes it is snowing right now. “ Siri how long is it going to snow for” Siri: yes it is snowing right now. “ Siri what’s the forecast for today” Siri: it’s going to snow today. Me: FOR HOW FUCKING LONG WTF I KNOW SHE KNOWS HOW LONG BECAUSE YOU CAN GO INTO THE WEATHER APP AND IT SHOWS YOU SHE SHOULD KNOW THIS YES SIRI I KNOW ITS FUCKING SNOWING BECAUSE IM DRIVING THROUGH A BLIZZARD WHEN IS IT GOING TO STOP!!!

Only ChatGPT 4o (Web version) w/ internet access (always forced setting? i.e. not able to handle media with fixed DB?) is supported with iOS 18.2.1 (and later) Siri? Or, is there any more possible set from OpenAI/ChatGPT?

When I have siri text my son she always asks "email or mobile". How do I get her to stop asking this? Is she asking this because his ipad uses his email address (since it doesn't have a mobile plan)? His phone I think is set to use his phone # by default. But my husband's ipad uses his email and Siri doesn't ask this when I text him.

It asks me "email or mobile" but then seems to remember the setting for a while before asking me again.

(OOps I mean HOW not HOT.)

Today is opposite day!

I asked Siri twice to play the music louder, the way I always say it: "Hey Siri, louder".

Both times she turned down the volume instead of up.

Really... what's going on with her?

Hey, I’m wondering is there a way to make Siri verbally notify me of reminders?

It can do it when I’m connected to my earbuds, as it reads out the reminders instead of pinging me. I’m wondering can the same be done when I’m just using the built in speakers on my iPad?

Seems simple enough to implement, not sure why it’s not obvious how to action.

TIA.

Hey Siri lovers!

I just made an app that works like a memo. You can add any information (text, voice, images, PDFs…) and later ask AI about your notes.

The highlight here is that it works perfectly with Siri. Via Siri, you can add new memos or ask about existing ones. It’s quite handy, and you can do more than just “what’s the weather” or “set an alarm” with Siri!

I would like to ask you all to give it a try and share your feedback. Here is the App Store link:

I’m sure you’ll like it.

Siri answers: “Which alarm?”

No wonder Apple stock is tanking.

Just checking to see if anyone else has experienced. I will usually have siri read books to me, and if there is any sentence beginning with "Er.." or "Uh..." she will immediately follow up with "you're not listening to anything" in a really sassy tone, lol. Another example was when I had her reading a more somber scene in a book, she suddenly said in a very chipper voice "I hope you wear your favorite color!" Super jarring contrast of energy. Has anyone else had anything similar happen/any solutions?

Things I've checked:

- Keyboard shortcuts just to make sure there wasn't some glitch where she was translating those to spoken content.

- Vocal shortcuts are off.

- Pronunciations are off.

Hey, just got the Apple Intelligence update to my Mac and started using the new Siri... and then noticed it still seemingly supports only one language at a time.

Is this still actually the case? Has Apple talked anything about planning multi-language support?

I’m at a loss, and I could really use your help. I have an MBA with Apple Intelligence switched on, but Siri isn’t responding to my questions. It says “Hey Siri” and “Siri,” but when I ask my questions, it just beeps and beeps and says, “Hmmm, I’m having a connection problem. Try again in a moment.” It only works when I type my questions or queries. Internal requests like setting a timer, reminding me, opening music, calling, or messaging someone also don’t work using the mic. It only works when I type. My mic is working, though. I can use “Hey Siri,” and it pops up. I can also record in Voice Memos. I’ve tried using an external mic like my Shure mic, my AirPods Pro 2, my AirPods 4, and even my AirPods Gen 2, but the result is the same. I can only type to get feedback answers from Siri and Apple Intelligence.

I’ve tried almost every troubleshooting guide out there, and nothing seems to work. I’ve switched Siri and Apple Intelligence on and off, but that hasn’t helped. My language is English US as my primary language, which is the same as Siri’s language. I’ve restarted and tested in Safe Mode, but it’s just the same. Just for your information, my region is Malaysia.

Please help me out. I’m starting to get really frustrated.

I just got into beta Apple intelligence testing, and now I found out there is iOS 18.2 update. Will I keep my Apple intelligence beta access if I am you g to update?

What I'm experiencing is that Siri is no longer properly parsing voice commands to play particular playlists within Apple Music. Note that all the music in my Apple Music is personally ripped from discs and has worked perfectly with Siri for years.

I pretty sure this only happened on 18.2.1 becuase I clearly recall everything working fine when the glowing in 18.1 was introduced.

Examples:

"Play playlist 'The Fray best'" Siri responds with "Now playing The Fray best" but plays "The A Team" by Ed Sheeran (first song alphabetically of everything on my phone and proceeds to play all songs I own in alphabetical order.

"Play playlist 'Bryan Adams best'" Siri responds with "Now playing Bryan Adams best" but plays "Ain't Gonna Cry" by Bryan Adams which is the first song in alphabetical order of my Bryan Adams songs and isn't in my hand curated playlist.

"Play playlist 'Snow Patrol best'" Siri responds with "Now playing Snow Patrol best edited" which is actually the fully correct name of the playlist but Siri plays Ed Sheehan again.

Thoughts:

The third example is most confounding as it indicates Siri correctly parsed my command, found the name of the desired playlist, but then proceeded to play all songs in my library instead of the playlist.

Again, I've never had a problem with this after YEARS of using these commands in the car. Siri has always been pretty tolerant of commands where I don't state the playlist name exactly right. To fault isolate, I tried wired CarPlay, wireless CarPlay, and no CarPlay at all - just the phone with Siri - and it fails in all cases. I also tested this on my iMac and Siri continues to work fine there and plays the requested playlists.

Anyone have ANY ideas for me? Anyone else experiencing this issue?