{"slug": "siri", "name": "Siri", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "Apple's voice assistant built into iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, HomePod and Apple TV.", "recommenders": 7, "commenters": 51, "warners": 36, "score": -24.848, "rising": 4.35, "first": "2025-11-05", "latest": "2026-10-16", "why": "HN commenters mainly rely on it for simple tasks like timers, reminders and smart-home control, and a few say the new version is useful for pulling answers from personal email and messages.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 7, "neutral": 9, "compare": 0, "warn": 38}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 5, 0], "listed": true, "loved": ["Simple tasks", "Personal data"], "caveat": "Fails basics", "short_quote": "if you haven't tried the new Siri, it's been great.", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.apple.com/siri/", "pricing": "free", "aliases": ["Siri"], "verdict": [{"text": "HN commenters mainly rely on it for simple tasks like timers, reminders and smart-home control,", "cites": [{"id": 775274576, "item_id": 48454661, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454661", "by": "kemayo", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Siri has always been pretty useful for the things I use it for: setting timers and reminders, and turning off my lights", "excerpt": "Siri has always been pretty useful for the things I use it for: setting timers and reminders, and turning off my lights after I'm in bed.", "context": "", "use_case": "timers, reminders, lights", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri AI"}, {"id": 775263072, "item_id": 48453942, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453942", "by": "s3p", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using siri to control my smart home and set my alarm for nearly ten years now. I haven't really had problems", "excerpt": "Jokes aside, I have been using siri to control my smart home and set my alarm for nearly ten years now. I haven't really had problems with basic stuff like this.", "context": "", "use_case": "smart home control and alarms", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri AI"}, {"id": 795268432, "item_id": 49704277, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704277", "by": "carabiner", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've been using it for years on homepod, asking it for weather and setting timers.", "excerpt": "Wait what was so bad about siri before? I've been using it for years on homepod, asking it for weather and setting timers.", "context": "", "use_case": "weather and timers on HomePod", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"}, {"id": 796693808, "item_id": 49793363, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49793363", "by": "standeven", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Yes, for setting timers and playing music on my HomePod.", "excerpt": "Yes, for setting timers and playing music on my HomePod. That\u2019s about it. Haven\u2019t tried the \u201cnew\u201d Siri yet as it\u2019s not compatible with HomePods or iOS devices 15 and earlier.", "context": "", "use_case": "timers and music", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Do You Use Siri?"}]}, {"text": " and a few say the new version is useful for pulling answers from personal email and messages.", "cites": [{"id": 796639024, "item_id": 49789939, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789939", "by": "hbn", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "if you haven't tried the new Siri, it's been great.", "excerpt": "I'll say they definitely need to let people disable/offload the model, but if you haven't tried the new Siri, it's been great. Obviously it's not a state of the art LLM, but it's good enough, and the fact that it can search and take actions on your local data makes it incredibly useful. I definitely use it more on my iPhone where it's slower to get things done the traditional way, but I use it all the time now. \"What", "context": "macOS 27 and iPhone user", "use_case": "searching and acting on local data", "switched_from": "", "story": "macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage"}, {"id": 781695344, "item_id": 48855959, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855959", "by": "helsinkiandrew", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "On my Pro 16 it has its ups and downs", "excerpt": "> The new Siri isnt that exciting at least on my iPhone 15 Pro Max On my Pro 16 it has its ups and downs - I still can't get it to \"play my running playlist on shuffle\" whilst running (this is the only thing I used Siri for before the beta and it would improve my life immeasurably if it worked). But it responds to things like \"how long will it take to drive to the AirBnb booking in my inbox\", and \"when is X playing a", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"}, {"id": 795923696, "item_id": 49745231, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745231", "by": "MBCook", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "But in my mind they finally delivered.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been using it off and on since DB2. David Pogue is right, it\u2019s very impressive. He and basically everyone else make the same comment, and I fully agree: it\u2019s hard to remember to even use it. I used Siri a ton before, but always for basically the same four commands. Create reminder, call X, send a text to Y, set a timer for Z minutes. And after years of that, it\u2019s hard to remember to do more. But when I do it can", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tests of the New AI Siri"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is that it still fails at basic requests,", "cites": [{"id": 801680464, "item_id": 50105029, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105029", "by": "wilkystyle", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Siri is an inexcusable failure by a company that supposedly prides itself on user experience", "excerpt": "Siri IS bad at many things, but the Reddit post is not a particularly compelling example. I am continually astounded by the fact that Apple has had an on-device voice assistant for 15 years, on a vertical hardware/software stack that they own completely, and yet which cannot reliably perform even the most basic tasks. Inconsistent capabilities: it can toggle do not disturb, but not \"silence unknown callers\". It can d", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 747448928, "item_id": 46715558, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715558", "by": "malshe", "date": "2026-01-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I have yet to see a more worthless peace of garbage software than Siri.", "excerpt": "I have yet to see a more worthless peace of garbage software than Siri. I use it to text or call my wife while driving and it will work only about 50% of the time. I can\u2019t use it for anything else. It can\u2019t even play my playlists from the Music app. Also if I dictate longer messages, it will randomly stop listening in the middle and start reading back the partial message to me. What a terrible experience. I really do", "context": "", "use_case": "voice calls and texts while driving", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple to Revamp Siri as a Built-In iPhone, Mac Chatbot to Fend Off OpenAI"}, {"id": 801683072, "item_id": 50105192, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105192", "by": "TechRemarker", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it is the dumbest of the bunch", "excerpt": "While certainly drastically better than before, it still fails at so many of the basics. I use primarily in the car, when need to be hands free. My requests are almost always say, \"Directions to Starbucks\". Which Starbucks.. and proceeds to list multiple then have to remind it each and every time the one first one... the one closest to me.. the one always go to... etc. So then try to do Directions to Starbucks (Town ", "context": "", "use_case": "hands-free directions, calls, reminders in car", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 795305808, "item_id": 49706613, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706613", "by": "LeapingLennie", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "still in iOS 27 we have: - \"What is three fifty degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius?\" -> \"53\u00b0F = 11.67\u00b0C\"", "excerpt": "One of the few things I use Siri for is converting units and still in iOS 27 we have: - \"What is three fifty degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius?\" -> \"53\u00b0F = 11.67\u00b0C\" Also disappointing: - \"Add mow the lawn to my chores note.\" -> \"Sorry, I can't help with that.\"", "context": "", "use_case": "unit conversion", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"}]}, {"text": " with many adding that the new Siri is slower and broke tasks that used to work.", "cites": [{"id": 801172992, "item_id": 50073312, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073312", "by": "taude", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It's really slow, no longer gets adding grocery items to the right lists, etc.", "excerpt": "anyone else been trying the new Siri AI intelligence on their phone and been underwhelmed? It's really slow, no longer gets adding grocery items to the right lists, etc. Did I mention how slow it is to inject an LLM turn on everything? Hopefully they'll fix all that by the time it's out of beta... But it's so rough to me that it's really ruined the experience of the device. Apples voice-to-text still isn't good compa", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "New Apple TV 4K"}, {"id": 796690704, "item_id": 49793169, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49793169", "by": "variety8675", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It is just as useless as before, just slower", "excerpt": "It is just as useless as before, just slower", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Do You Use Siri?"}, {"id": 795336320, "item_id": 49708520, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708520", "by": "pants2", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the new Siri is marginally worse for everything that I used to use Siri for. It's much slower to respond.", "excerpt": "In my experience the new Siri is marginally worse for everything that I used to use Siri for. It's much slower to respond. It asks for obnoxious classifications. It doesn't know that when I say \"call Mike\" I mean the Mike I call every day vs the other Mike in my contact I have never called in my life. It defaults back to Apple products for everything, old Siri knew I liked Spotify but now if I ask it to play a song i", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"}, {"id": 801684800, "item_id": 50105300, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105300", "by": "drcongo", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "now it starts a random book from my library, even ones I've already listened to", "excerpt": "\"Hey Siri, continue playing my audiobook\" used to work, now it starts a random book from my library, even ones I've already listened to. \"Hey Siri, play\" used to continue playing whatever was last playing, now it starts random songs on Apple Music. Those are the only two things I use Siri for apart from controlling lights.", "context": "", "use_case": "audiobook and music control", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 801686800, "item_id": 50105425, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105425", "by": "Jeremy1026", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Now, Siri looks through my messages and finds a dinner reservation from OpenTable from months ago and declares that to be fact.", "excerpt": "Apple Intelligence broke the ability for Siri to run a shortcut that I use daily. I have a shortcut named, \"What's for dinner?\" I used to be able to activate Siri and says, \"What's for dinner?\" and it would set off to my personal mealie server, use an API key to fetch the information, then speak the result. Now, Siri looks through my messages and finds a dinner reservation from OpenTable from months ago and declares ", "context": "", "use_case": "running shortcuts by voice", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Simple tasks", "summary": "Reliable for timers, reminders, alarms and smart-home control.", "quotes": [{"id": 775274576, "item_id": 48454661, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454661", "by": "kemayo", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Siri has always been pretty useful for the things I use it for: setting timers and reminders, and turning off my lights", "excerpt": "Siri has always been pretty useful for the things I use it for: setting timers and reminders, and turning off my lights after I'm in bed.", "context": "", "use_case": "timers, reminders, lights", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri AI"}, {"id": 775263072, "item_id": 48453942, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453942", "by": "s3p", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using siri to control my smart home and set my alarm for nearly ten years now. I haven't really had problems", "excerpt": "Jokes aside, I have been using siri to control my smart home and set my alarm for nearly ten years now. I haven't really had problems with basic stuff like this.", "context": "", "use_case": "smart home control and alarms", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri AI"}, {"id": 795295024, "item_id": 49705939, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705939", "by": "SnowingXIV", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "But it does that quite well.", "excerpt": "This might be my only use for it. I use it exactly twice a day for bloom and steep for French press. But it does that quite well.", "context": "", "use_case": "timers for French press", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows"}]}, {"label": "Personal data", "summary": "The new Siri can search emails and messages and act on local data.", "quotes": [{"id": 796639024, "item_id": 49789939, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789939", "by": "hbn", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "if you haven't tried the new Siri, it's been great.", "excerpt": "I'll say they definitely need to let people disable/offload the model, but if you haven't tried the new Siri, it's been great. Obviously it's not a state of the art LLM, but it's good enough, and the fact that it can search and take actions on your local data makes it incredibly useful. I definitely use it more on my iPhone where it's slower to get things done the traditional way, but I use it all the time now. \"What", "context": "macOS 27 and iPhone user", "use_case": "searching and acting on local data", "switched_from": "", "story": "macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage"}, {"id": 781695344, "item_id": 48855959, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855959", "by": "helsinkiandrew", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "On my Pro 16 it has its ups and downs", "excerpt": "> The new Siri isnt that exciting at least on my iPhone 15 Pro Max On my Pro 16 it has its ups and downs - I still can't get it to \"play my running playlist on shuffle\" whilst running (this is the only thing I used Siri for before the beta and it would improve my life immeasurably if it worked). But it responds to things like \"how long will it take to drive to the AirBnb booking in my inbox\", and \"when is X playing a", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"}]}, {"label": "Improved", "summary": "Some see the new version as a clear step up from the old Siri.", "quotes": [{"id": 781694640, "item_id": 48855915, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855915", "by": "y1n0", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It's a major improvement, but I still don't use siri much.", "excerpt": "I use it on my 15 pro max. It's a major improvement, but I still don't use siri much. It's gone from murderously infuriating to passably usable. I still use gpt for any sort of exploratory conversations. I haven't bothered trying to use siri for that because to me that's not what siri is for. Although given how effed up the voice for chatgpt is now with the latest updates I might talk with siri more. Because I use ca", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"}, {"id": 786802192, "item_id": 49175137, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175137", "by": "paul7986", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It is a step up from the old Siri as it can answer any question, yet again you have to say Hey Siri for each follow up question.", "excerpt": "It is a step up from the old Siri as it can answer any question, yet again you have to say Hey Siri for each follow up question. This is especially true when driving where i use voice tech the most.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant while driving", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"}, {"id": 795923696, "item_id": 49745231, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745231", "by": "MBCook", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "But in my mind they finally delivered.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been using it off and on since DB2. David Pogue is right, it\u2019s very impressive. He and basically everyone else make the same comment, and I fully agree: it\u2019s hard to remember to even use it. I used Siri a ton before, but always for basically the same four commands. Create reminder, call X, send a text to Y, set a timer for Z minutes. And after years of that, it\u2019s hard to remember to do more. But when I do it can", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tests of the New AI Siri"}]}, {"label": "Visual identification", "summary": "One user was impressed by how well it identifies dogs through the camera.", "quotes": [{"id": 792638576, "item_id": 49539911, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539911", "by": "behole", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Pointing my camera at dogs at the dog park and seeing how well Siri identifies them. Pretty impressed so far.", "excerpt": "I have been using \"new\" Siri on iOS similarly but less dangerously. Pointing my camera at dogs at the dog park and seeing how well Siri identifies them. Pretty impressed so far. I am not eating them tho.", "context": "", "use_case": "identifying dogs via camera", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong?"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Fails basics", "summary": "Often fails or misinterprets basic requests like directions, conversions and playlists.", "quotes": [{"id": 801680464, "item_id": 50105029, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105029", "by": "wilkystyle", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Siri is an inexcusable failure by a company that supposedly prides itself on user experience", "excerpt": "Siri IS bad at many things, but the Reddit post is not a particularly compelling example. I am continually astounded by the fact that Apple has had an on-device voice assistant for 15 years, on a vertical hardware/software stack that they own completely, and yet which cannot reliably perform even the most basic tasks. Inconsistent capabilities: it can toggle do not disturb, but not \"silence unknown callers\". It can d", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 747448928, "item_id": 46715558, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715558", "by": "malshe", "date": "2026-01-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I have yet to see a more worthless peace of garbage software than Siri.", "excerpt": "I have yet to see a more worthless peace of garbage software than Siri. I use it to text or call my wife while driving and it will work only about 50% of the time. I can\u2019t use it for anything else. It can\u2019t even play my playlists from the Music app. Also if I dictate longer messages, it will randomly stop listening in the middle and start reading back the partial message to me. What a terrible experience. I really do", "context": "", "use_case": "voice calls and texts while driving", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple to Revamp Siri as a Built-In iPhone, Mac Chatbot to Fend Off OpenAI"}, {"id": 795305808, "item_id": 49706613, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706613", "by": "LeapingLennie", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "still in iOS 27 we have: - \"What is three fifty degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius?\" -> \"53\u00b0F = 11.67\u00b0C\"", "excerpt": "One of the few things I use Siri for is converting units and still in iOS 27 we have: - \"What is three fifty degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius?\" -> \"53\u00b0F = 11.67\u00b0C\" Also disappointing: - \"Add mow the lawn to my chores note.\" -> \"Sorry, I can't help with that.\"", "context": "", "use_case": "unit conversion", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"}]}, {"label": "Slower", "summary": "The new Siri is noticeably slower to respond than the old one.", "quotes": [{"id": 801172992, "item_id": 50073312, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073312", "by": "taude", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It's really slow, no longer gets adding grocery items to the right lists, etc.", "excerpt": "anyone else been trying the new Siri AI intelligence on their phone and been underwhelmed? It's really slow, no longer gets adding grocery items to the right lists, etc. Did I mention how slow it is to inject an LLM turn on everything? Hopefully they'll fix all that by the time it's out of beta... But it's so rough to me that it's really ruined the experience of the device. Apples voice-to-text still isn't good compa", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "New Apple TV 4K"}, {"id": 796690704, "item_id": 49793169, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49793169", "by": "variety8675", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It is just as useless as before, just slower", "excerpt": "It is just as useless as before, just slower", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Do You Use Siri?"}, {"id": 795336320, "item_id": 49708520, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708520", "by": "pants2", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the new Siri is marginally worse for everything that I used to use Siri for. It's much slower to respond.", "excerpt": "In my experience the new Siri is marginally worse for everything that I used to use Siri for. It's much slower to respond. It asks for obnoxious classifications. It doesn't know that when I say \"call Mike\" I mean the Mike I call every day vs the other Mike in my contact I have never called in my life. It defaults back to Apple products for everything, old Siri knew I liked Spotify but now if I ask it to play a song i", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"}]}, {"label": "Regressions", "summary": "Updates broke previously working tasks such as shortcuts, audiobook playback and offline use.", "quotes": [{"id": 801684800, "item_id": 50105300, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105300", "by": "drcongo", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "now it starts a random book from my library, even ones I've already listened to", "excerpt": "\"Hey Siri, continue playing my audiobook\" used to work, now it starts a random book from my library, even ones I've already listened to. \"Hey Siri, play\" used to continue playing whatever was last playing, now it starts random songs on Apple Music. Those are the only two things I use Siri for apart from controlling lights.", "context": "", "use_case": "audiobook and music control", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 801686800, "item_id": 50105425, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105425", "by": "Jeremy1026", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Now, Siri looks through my messages and finds a dinner reservation from OpenTable from months ago and declares that to be fact.", "excerpt": "Apple Intelligence broke the ability for Siri to run a shortcut that I use daily. I have a shortcut named, \"What's for dinner?\" I used to be able to activate Siri and says, \"What's for dinner?\" and it would set off to my personal mealie server, use an API key to fetch the information, then speak the result. Now, Siri looks through my messages and finds a dinner reservation from OpenTable from months ago and declares ", "context": "", "use_case": "running shortcuts by voice", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 733263168, "item_id": 45828948, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45828948", "by": "m463", "date": "2025-11-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I used to be able to use siri offline, but ios 18 seems to have broken that.", "excerpt": "I wonder if apple should allow alternate ai providers, just like it allows alternate search engines. I used to be able to use siri offline, but ios 18 seems to have broken that. us english downloaded, \"something went wrong\" every time.", "context": "", "use_case": "offline voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's New Siri Will Be Powered by Google Gemini"}]}, {"label": "Speech recognition", "summary": "Struggles with accents and non-English languages.", "quotes": [{"id": 782337456, "item_id": 48896091, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896091", "by": "jermaustin1", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Siri can't understand me probably 25% of the time.", "excerpt": "As a Texan first, American second, I sympathize with this statement. Siri can't understand me probably 25% of the time. I use STT for iMessage while in the car, and half the time it will take 3+ times to either get it right or me give up, and hope to remember to text them by hand when I next stop.", "context": "Texan", "use_case": "voice dictation for iMessage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"}, {"id": 801181856, "item_id": 50073866, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073866", "by": "azuanrb", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Anything powered by Siri is pretty much a failed product to me right now.", "excerpt": "Anything powered by Siri is pretty much a failed product to me right now. I\u2019ve been using the new Siri for a while, and it\u2019s okay, but it still fails on most of my requests. Maybe it\u2019s my accent? But ChatGPT and Claude have no trouble understanding what I\u2019m saying, so I\u2019m not sure what the issue is. I saw some discussion about potentially being able to use ChatGPT or Claude as Siri\u2019s backend instead of Apple Intellig", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple HomeView"}, {"id": 775314864, "item_id": 48457179, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457179", "by": "kingreflex", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it gets it wrong a lot of times", "excerpt": "for olders iphone models - i am on 15 - are they allowing any sort of extensions? that would allow some apps to make use of of to build things like better speech recognition etc.. i was waiting for siri update and bummed it is not supported on 15. when i use my native language (i mostly do it when in carplay) to search songs etc.. it gets it wrong a lot of times. + a more integrated into things like imessages, whatsa", "context": "iPhone 15 user", "use_case": "voice search in native language", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri AI"}]}, {"label": "Wrong contacts", "summary": "Picks the wrong person when contacts share a name.", "quotes": [{"id": 801800384, "item_id": 50112524, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112524", "by": "lunatuna", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Siri would call her instead of my wife as they both have the same first name.", "excerpt": "Your edit made me laugh. I had to delete a sales rep contact I used to deal with but no longer because Siri would call her instead of my wife as they both have the same first name. It was embarrassing and then I thought started to look creepy. But she has a common name and would call the others with the same name. Siri is bent out of shape.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant calling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 795336320, "item_id": 49708520, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708520", "by": "pants2", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the new Siri is marginally worse for everything that I used to use Siri for. It's much slower to respond.", "excerpt": "In my experience the new Siri is marginally worse for everything that I used to use Siri for. It's much slower to respond. It asks for obnoxious classifications. It doesn't know that when I say \"call Mike\" I mean the Mike I call every day vs the other Mike in my contact I have never called in my life. It defaults back to Apple products for everything, old Siri knew I liked Spotify but now if I ask it to play a song i", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"}]}, {"label": "Hands-free limits", "summary": "Requires unlocking the phone and repeated wake words, undermining hands-free use.", "quotes": [{"id": 775327744, "item_id": 48457984, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457984", "by": "yakshaving_jgt", "date": "2026-06-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it will say something like \"\u2026You must unlock your iPhone to do that.\"", "excerpt": "I use Shure se215 IEMs inside my helmet together with a Cardo Packtalk (which includes a microphone mounted inside my helmet). The audio setup is not the problem. The problem is when I say \"Hey Siri, cancel route guidance,\" it will say something like \"\u2026You must unlock your iPhone to do that.\" The entire point is that I can't take my gloves off, get out my phone, and unlock it, at speed, on a motorcycle.", "context": "motorcycle rider", "use_case": "hands-free route guidance on motorcycle", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri AI"}, {"id": 775303248, "item_id": 48456453, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456453", "by": "nomilk", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Using Siri essentially required me to use my hands anyway, so what's the point of voice?", "excerpt": "I placed eggs into boiling water and because my hands were wet I used voice and said \"hey Siri, start a timer\". It replied \"you'll have to unlock your iPhone first\", so I hovered my face over the bench the phone was sitting on, then the screen rattled and prompted for the numeric passcode. Ugh.. Using Siri essentially required me to use my hands anyway, so what's the point of voice? I'd very seriously consider moving", "context": "iPhone user", "use_case": "voice timer", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri AI"}, {"id": 801250432, "item_id": 50078152, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078152", "by": "paul7986", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "with the new Siri i constantly have to use hey siri to keep the conversation going.", "excerpt": "You can have a complete conversation with Siri back and forth like you can with chatGPT without having to constantly say Hey Siri? I use conversational voice AI while driving and with the new Siri i constantly have to use hey siri to keep the conversation going.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice conversation while driving", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple HomeView"}]}], "who": [{"by": "hbn", "context": "macOS 27 and iPhone user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789939", "date": "2026-09-21"}], "tags": ["for timers and reminders", "for smart home control", "for HomePod users", "for Apple ecosystem users"], "use_cases": ["voice assistant", "setting timers", "voice assistant calling", "running shortcuts by voice", "audiobook and music control", "hands-free directions, calls, reminders in car"], "compared": [{"slug": "gemini", "name": "Gemini", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 3}, {"slug": "chatgpt", "name": "ChatGPT", "co": 10, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50104465", "title": "Siri is so bad at everything", "mentions": 7}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449084", "title": "Siri AI", "mentions": 7}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49793139", "title": "Ask HN: Do You Use Siri?", "mentions": 6}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701004", "title": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071017", "title": "Apple HomeView", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071310", "title": "New Apple TV 4K", "mentions": 2}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"warn": 2}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-01": {"warn": 2}, "2026-02": {"warn": 2}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"warn": 1}, "2026-05": {"warn": 2}, "2026-06": {"warn": 5, "recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 2, "warn": 1}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 5, "neutral": 4, "warn": 8}, "2026-10": {"warn": 14}}, "quotes": [{"id": 801800384, "item_id": 50112524, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112524", "by": "lunatuna", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Siri would call her instead of my wife as they both have the same first name.", "excerpt": "Your edit made me laugh. I had to delete a sales rep contact I used to deal with but no longer because Siri would call her instead of my wife as they both have the same first name. It was embarrassing and then I thought started to look creepy. But she has a common name and would call the others with the same name. Siri is bent out of shape.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant calling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 801687312, "item_id": 50105457, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105457", "by": "joshstrange", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "New Siri is _very slightly_ better for some tasks and infinitely worse in others.", "excerpt": "The bug that I think was actually fixed (or maybe I just haven't hit the spot on the roulette wheel again since the beta): - Call Mom - What app should I use? (only offers the default Phone app Immense rage - The only freaking app I've ever used to call her. You didn't even give me a reasonable alternative. We don't talk on FB Messenger/WhatsApp/etc (nor do I use them at all). New Siri is _very slightly_ better for s", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 801686800, "item_id": 50105425, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105425", "by": "Jeremy1026", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Now, Siri looks through my messages and finds a dinner reservation from OpenTable from months ago and declares that to be fact.", "excerpt": "Apple Intelligence broke the ability for Siri to run a shortcut that I use daily. I have a shortcut named, \"What's for dinner?\" I used to be able to activate Siri and says, \"What's for dinner?\" and it would set off to my personal mealie server, use an API key to fetch the information, then speak the result. Now, Siri looks through my messages and finds a dinner reservation from OpenTable from months ago and declares ", "context": "", "use_case": "running shortcuts by voice", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 801684800, "item_id": 50105300, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105300", "by": "drcongo", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "now it starts a random book from my library, even ones I've already listened to", "excerpt": "\"Hey Siri, continue playing my audiobook\" used to work, now it starts a random book from my library, even ones I've already listened to. \"Hey Siri, play\" used to continue playing whatever was last playing, now it starts random songs on Apple Music. Those are the only two things I use Siri for apart from controlling lights.", "context": "", "use_case": "audiobook and music control", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 801683520, "item_id": 50105220, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105220", "by": "aspectmin", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "there are three areas of their products that are substandard.", "excerpt": "Apple makes great products, and I am well vested in its ecosystem. With that said - there are three areas of their products that are substandard. - Siri, as discussed here - autocorrect - which is insanely bad. I switched to Gboard a while back - and despite its occasional lagging (it depends too much on an internet connection) it\u2019s such a relief. No more fighting autocorrect over words, especially after committing b", "context": "well invested in the Apple ecosystem", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 801683072, "item_id": 50105192, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105192", "by": "TechRemarker", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it is the dumbest of the bunch", "excerpt": "While certainly drastically better than before, it still fails at so many of the basics. I use primarily in the car, when need to be hands free. My requests are almost always say, \"Directions to Starbucks\". Which Starbucks.. and proceeds to list multiple then have to remind it each and every time the one first one... the one closest to me.. the one always go to... etc. So then try to do Directions to Starbucks (Town ", "context": "", "use_case": "hands-free directions, calls, reminders in car", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 801680464, "item_id": 50105029, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105029", "by": "wilkystyle", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Siri is an inexcusable failure by a company that supposedly prides itself on user experience", "excerpt": "Siri IS bad at many things, but the Reddit post is not a particularly compelling example. I am continually astounded by the fact that Apple has had an on-device voice assistant for 15 years, on a vertical hardware/software stack that they own completely, and yet which cannot reliably perform even the most basic tasks. Inconsistent capabilities: it can toggle do not disturb, but not \"silence unknown callers\". It can d", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 801250432, "item_id": 50078152, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078152", "by": "paul7986", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "with the new Siri i constantly have to use hey siri to keep the conversation going.", "excerpt": "You can have a complete conversation with Siri back and forth like you can with chatGPT without having to constantly say Hey Siri? I use conversational voice AI while driving and with the new Siri i constantly have to use hey siri to keep the conversation going.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice conversation while driving", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple HomeView"}, {"id": 801181856, "item_id": 50073866, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073866", "by": "azuanrb", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Anything powered by Siri is pretty much a failed product to me right now.", "excerpt": "Anything powered by Siri is pretty much a failed product to me right now. I\u2019ve been using the new Siri for a while, and it\u2019s okay, but it still fails on most of my requests. Maybe it\u2019s my accent? But ChatGPT and Claude have no trouble understanding what I\u2019m saying, so I\u2019m not sure what the issue is. I saw some discussion about potentially being able to use ChatGPT or Claude as Siri\u2019s backend instead of Apple Intellig", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple HomeView"}, {"id": 801177840, "item_id": 50073615, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073615", "by": "jm4", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Siri isn't even good enough to answer basic queries in the first place.", "excerpt": "I love my Apple TV, but this is nothing but a price hike. The older model already does 4k. What's the added benefit here? Siri? Give me a break. Apple Intelligence is the least capable AI of any of the big tech companies. The fact that they don't mine data like the others is a moot point when Siri isn't even good enough to answer basic queries in the first place. There's no data to mine when you end up not using it f", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "New Apple TV 4K"}, {"id": 801177136, "item_id": 50073571, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073571", "by": "tkdb", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Siri, even the new gemini-under-the-hood Siri, is still maddeningly, bafflingly worthless.", "excerpt": "Nice very Apple-esque thrust to unify and refine a chaotic field of tech into an elegant experience. I cannot fathom how this will deliver on the vision when Siri, even the new gemini-under-the-hood Siri, is still maddeningly, bafflingly worthless. To be fair, Gemini, for a consumer of the google ecosystem, is also maddeningly, bafflingly worthless. So we use ChatGPT or Claude, with extremely limited access to the ti", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple HomeView"}, {"id": 801172992, "item_id": 50073312, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073312", "by": "taude", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It's really slow, no longer gets adding grocery items to the right lists, etc.", "excerpt": "anyone else been trying the new Siri AI intelligence on their phone and been underwhelmed? It's really slow, no longer gets adding grocery items to the right lists, etc. Did I mention how slow it is to inject an LLM turn on everything? Hopefully they'll fix all that by the time it's out of beta... But it's so rough to me that it's really ruined the experience of the device. Apples voice-to-text still isn't good compa", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "New Apple TV 4K"}, {"id": 801021058, "item_id": 50063816, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063816", "by": "jiscariot", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Buying Siri and having it be useless for anything beyond setting timers for 5 years, is kind of unforgivable.", "excerpt": "I've been running OpenClaw for a year--its been fine, but I really wanted an enterprise experience and to spend less time troubleshooting my agent. Muse exceeded expectations out of the gate, and still does. It has become my daily driver and I shutdown OpenClaw last week. I get that some are adverse to Meta or want to run local. I don't care who wins the personal agent space, so long as it's not Apple. Buying Siri an", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse Wonder"}, {"id": 799102816, "item_id": 49943926, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943926", "by": "mrweasel", "date": "2026-10-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "very few has probably switched to Android because Siri sucks", "excerpt": "Quite frankly I think that is the primary reason why Apple hasn't care much about Siri. It's not a make or break feature, very few has probably switched to Android because Siri sucks. Not improving on Siri has cost Apple very little. Right now shareholders expect a visible AI play. Apple doesn't have much in terms of visible AI, there's plenty of AI features in e.g. the Photo app and Mail, but investors want a chatbo", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Pass Designer"}, {"id": 796829808, "item_id": 49801863, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801863", "by": "lxgr", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "warn", "quote": "That functionality is now effectively broken for me.", "excerpt": "> Siri AI is dramatically better than old-school Siri. [...] it just works. Yeah, after 30 seconds, assuming it doesn't fail outright. The only thing I use Siri for is to set timers on my watch when cooking. This used to take 2-3 seconds at most and even worked completely offline on the watch itself. That functionality is now effectively broken for me.", "context": "", "use_case": "setting timers on watch", "switched_from": "", "story": "Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac"}, {"id": 796767312, "item_id": 49797957, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797957", "by": "sph", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Yes, to set timers.", "excerpt": "Yes, to set timers. But as the English language is dumb, it\u2019s always a lot of fun having it distinguish between 13/30, 14/40, etc. I don\u2019t have any other use case.", "context": "", "use_case": "setting timers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Do You Use Siri?"}, {"id": 796702208, "item_id": 49793888, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49793888", "by": "lynndotpy", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The new Siri was worse for everything I use it for before I turned it off.", "excerpt": "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 air quality index\", the new Siri would sometimes return the definition", "context": "", "use_case": "weather and queries", "switched_from": "", "story": "macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage"}, {"id": 796694864, "item_id": 49793429, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49793429", "by": "rznicolet", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the annoyances of the occasional helpful \"Are you trying to use Siri?\" pop-up motivated me to turn it off", "excerpt": "Never. In fact, the annoyances of the occasional helpful \"Are you trying to use Siri?\" pop-up motivated me to turn it off.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Do You Use Siri?"}, {"id": 796693808, "item_id": 49793363, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49793363", "by": "standeven", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Yes, for setting timers and playing music on my HomePod.", "excerpt": "Yes, for setting timers and playing music on my HomePod. That\u2019s about it. Haven\u2019t tried the \u201cnew\u201d Siri yet as it\u2019s not compatible with HomePods or iOS devices 15 and earlier.", "context": "", "use_case": "timers and music", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Do You Use Siri?"}, {"id": 796692864, "item_id": 49793304, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49793304", "by": "dgellow", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Absolutely never. The last thing I want is to have to speak to my devices", "excerpt": "Absolutely never. The last thing I want is to have to speak to my devices", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Do You Use Siri?"}, {"id": 796690848, "item_id": 49793178, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49793178", "by": "mring33621", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Yes. To snooze my alarm, when it's across the room. She fails maybe 20% of the time", "excerpt": "Yes. To snooze my alarm, when it's across the room. She fails maybe 20% of the time, in that the audible portion of the alarm may not return after the snooze period.", "context": "", "use_case": "snoozing alarm", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Do You Use Siri?"}, {"id": 796690704, "item_id": 49793169, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49793169", "by": "variety8675", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It is just as useless as before, just slower", "excerpt": "It is just as useless as before, just slower", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Do You Use Siri?"}, {"id": 796639024, "item_id": 49789939, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789939", "by": "hbn", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "if you haven't tried the new Siri, it's been great.", "excerpt": "I'll say they definitely need to let people disable/offload the model, but if you haven't tried the new Siri, it's been great. Obviously it's not a state of the art LLM, but it's good enough, and the fact that it can search and take actions on your local data makes it incredibly useful. I definitely use it more on my iPhone where it's slower to get things done the traditional way, but I use it all the time now. \"What", "context": "macOS 27 and iPhone user", "use_case": "searching and acting on local data", "switched_from": "", "story": "macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage"}, {"id": 795923696, "item_id": 49745231, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745231", "by": "MBCook", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "But in my mind they finally delivered.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been using it off and on since DB2. David Pogue is right, it\u2019s very impressive. He and basically everyone else make the same comment, and I fully agree: it\u2019s hard to remember to even use it. I used Siri a ton before, but always for basically the same four commands. Create reminder, call X, send a text to Y, set a timer for Z minutes. And after years of that, it\u2019s hard to remember to do more. But when I do it can", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tests of the New AI Siri"}, {"id": 795593425, "item_id": 49724589, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724589", "by": "atraac", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "there's no comparison to old Siri that was just garbage", "excerpt": "I also had that issue happen to me, surprisingly only when I used Polish, not English. But other than that I actually like Gemini, I check stuff against it all the time, especially when walking my dog. It also works in AndroidAuto for me, but I use very basic stuff like changing Spotify music. I was on iOS before and there's no comparison to old Siri that was just garbage. I use Gemini practically every day, it's fin", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"}, {"id": 795336320, "item_id": 49708520, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708520", "by": "pants2", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the new Siri is marginally worse for everything that I used to use Siri for. It's much slower to respond.", "excerpt": "In my experience the new Siri is marginally worse for everything that I used to use Siri for. It's much slower to respond. It asks for obnoxious classifications. It doesn't know that when I say \"call Mike\" I mean the Mike I call every day vs the other Mike in my contact I have never called in my life. It defaults back to Apple products for everything, old Siri knew I liked Spotify but now if I ask it to play a song i", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"}, {"id": 795305808, "item_id": 49706613, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706613", "by": "LeapingLennie", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "still in iOS 27 we have: - \"What is three fifty degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius?\" -> \"53\u00b0F = 11.67\u00b0C\"", "excerpt": "One of the few things I use Siri for is converting units and still in iOS 27 we have: - \"What is three fifty degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius?\" -> \"53\u00b0F = 11.67\u00b0C\" Also disappointing: - \"Add mow the lawn to my chores note.\" -> \"Sorry, I can't help with that.\"", "context": "", "use_case": "unit conversion", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"}, {"id": 795295024, "item_id": 49705939, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705939", "by": "SnowingXIV", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "But it does that quite well.", "excerpt": "This might be my only use for it. I use it exactly twice a day for bloom and steep for French press. But it does that quite well.", "context": "", "use_case": "timers for French press", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows"}, {"id": 795268432, "item_id": 49704277, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704277", "by": "carabiner", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've been using it for years on homepod, asking it for weather and setting timers.", "excerpt": "Wait what was so bad about siri before? I've been using it for years on homepod, asking it for weather and setting timers.", "context": "", "use_case": "weather and timers on HomePod", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"}, {"id": 795229216, "item_id": 49701826, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701826", "by": "seanhunter", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Siri's suggestions for categories in my shopping list.", "excerpt": "I love Siri's suggestions for categories in my shopping list. At the moment it puts \"Dishwasher Rinse Aid\" in the \"Beverages\" category.", "context": "", "use_case": "shopping list categories", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"}, {"id": 792638576, "item_id": 49539911, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539911", "by": "behole", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Pointing my camera at dogs at the dog park and seeing how well Siri identifies them. Pretty impressed so far.", "excerpt": "I have been using \"new\" Siri on iOS similarly but less dangerously. Pointing my camera at dogs at the dog park and seeing how well Siri identifies them. Pretty impressed so far. I am not eating them tho.", "context": "", "use_case": "identifying dogs via camera", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong?"}, {"id": 786802192, "item_id": 49175137, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175137", "by": "paul7986", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It is a step up from the old Siri as it can answer any question, yet again you have to say Hey Siri for each follow up question.", "excerpt": "It is a step up from the old Siri as it can answer any question, yet again you have to say Hey Siri for each follow up question. This is especially true when driving where i use voice tech the most.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant while driving", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"}, {"id": 782337456, "item_id": 48896091, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896091", "by": "jermaustin1", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Siri can't understand me probably 25% of the time.", "excerpt": "As a Texan first, American second, I sympathize with this statement. Siri can't understand me probably 25% of the time. I use STT for iMessage while in the car, and half the time it will take 3+ times to either get it right or me give up, and hope to remember to text them by hand when I next stop.", "context": "Texan", "use_case": "voice dictation for iMessage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"}, {"id": 781695344, "item_id": 48855959, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855959", "by": "helsinkiandrew", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "On my Pro 16 it has its ups and downs", "excerpt": "> The new Siri isnt that exciting at least on my iPhone 15 Pro Max On my Pro 16 it has its ups and downs - I still can't get it to \"play my running playlist on shuffle\" whilst running (this is the only thing I used Siri for before the beta and it would improve my life immeasurably if it worked). But it responds to things like \"how long will it take to drive to the AirBnb booking in my inbox\", and \"when is X playing a", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"}, {"id": 781694640, "item_id": 48855915, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855915", "by": "y1n0", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It's a major improvement, but I still don't use siri much.", "excerpt": "I use it on my 15 pro max. It's a major improvement, but I still don't use siri much. It's gone from murderously infuriating to passably usable. I still use gpt for any sort of exploratory conversations. I haven't bothered trying to use siri for that because to me that's not what siri is for. Although given how effed up the voice for chatgpt is now with the latest updates I might talk with siri more. Because I use ca", "context": "", "use_case": "voice assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"}, {"id": 776908368, "item_id": 48556773, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556773", "by": "hireshbrem", "date": "2026-06-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "timers are one thing i use it for", "excerpt": "me too, timers are one thing i use it for. i don't know about the overhaul tbh, I think Apple Intelligence is another topic itself but I am curious as to how/what they will do specifically. I think Apple holding back on AI investment is crazy.", "context": "", "use_case": "setting timers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do people think of Apple's Siri?"}, {"id": 775327744, "item_id": 48457984, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457984", "by": "yakshaving_jgt", "date": "2026-06-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it will say something like \"\u2026You must unlock your iPhone to do that.\"", "excerpt": "I use Shure se215 IEMs inside my helmet together with a Cardo Packtalk (which includes a microphone mounted inside my helmet). The audio setup is not the problem. The problem is when I say \"Hey Siri, cancel route guidance,\" it will say something like \"\u2026You must unlock your iPhone to do that.\" The entire point is that I can't take my gloves off, get out my phone, and unlock it, at speed, on a motorcycle.", "context": "motorcycle rider", "use_case": "hands-free route guidance on motorcycle", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri AI"}, {"id": 775314864, "item_id": 48457179, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457179", "by": "kingreflex", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it gets it wrong a lot of times", "excerpt": "for olders iphone models - i am on 15 - are they allowing any sort of extensions? that would allow some apps to make use of of to build things like better speech recognition etc.. i was waiting for siri update and bummed it is not supported on 15. when i use my native language (i mostly do it when in carplay) to search songs etc.. it gets it wrong a lot of times. + a more integrated into things like imessages, whatsa", "context": "iPhone 15 user", "use_case": "voice search in native language", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri AI"}, {"id": 775303248, "item_id": 48456453, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456453", "by": "nomilk", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Using Siri essentially required me to use my hands anyway, so what's the point of voice?", "excerpt": "I placed eggs into boiling water and because my hands were wet I used voice and said \"hey Siri, start a timer\". It replied \"you'll have to unlock your iPhone first\", so I hovered my face over the bench the phone was sitting on, then the screen rattled and prompted for the numeric passcode. Ugh.. Using Siri essentially required me to use my hands anyway, so what's the point of voice? I'd very seriously consider moving", "context": "iPhone user", "use_case": "voice timer", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri AI"}, {"id": 775274576, "item_id": 48454661, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454661", "by": "kemayo", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Siri has always been pretty useful for the things I use it for: setting timers and reminders, and turning off my lights", "excerpt": "Siri has always been pretty useful for the things I use it for: setting timers and reminders, and turning off my lights after I'm in bed.", "context": "", "use_case": "timers, reminders, lights", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri AI"}, {"id": 775263072, "item_id": 48453942, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453942", "by": "s3p", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using siri to control my smart home and set my alarm for nearly ten years now. I haven't really had problems", "excerpt": "Jokes aside, I have been using siri to control my smart home and set my alarm for nearly ten years now. I haven't really had problems with basic stuff like this.", "context": "", "use_case": "smart home control and alarms", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri AI"}, {"id": 747448928, "item_id": 46715558, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715558", "by": "malshe", "date": "2026-01-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I have yet to see a more worthless peace of garbage software than Siri.", "excerpt": "I have yet to see a more worthless peace of garbage software than Siri. I use it to text or call my wife while driving and it will work only about 50% of the time. I can\u2019t use it for anything else. It can\u2019t even play my playlists from the Music app. Also if I dictate longer messages, it will randomly stop listening in the middle and start reading back the partial message to me. What a terrible experience. I really do", "context": "", "use_case": "voice calls and texts while driving", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple to Revamp Siri as a Built-In iPhone, Mac Chatbot to Fend Off OpenAI"}]}