I'm one of those for whom "it just doesn't work" but every now and then I'll be pleasantly surprised.

I got an email for a class action suit. I asked Siri if I'm likely in the class. After a promising response, I clicked the link to submit a claim. There were some questions that could take (I estimate) up to an hour to dig for. Things from over a decade ago hidden in emails or notes or myriad receipt/contract-type docs.

I asked for the answers to those questions, and Siri found them! Granted some weren't 100% accurate, but I double checked using the provided source links. I submitted my claim in like 10 min.

Thank you Siri! I'm hoping this experience becomes the norm and not the exception.

Whenever I ask Siri a question and immediately follow up with a related question, it completely loses the context of what we were just talking about. Instead of continuing the conversation, it treats the follow-up as a brand new, unrelated query.

Is there a specific setting I'm missing to enable better back-and-forth conversations, or is Siri still just not capable of proper context retention?

(Running 27.0.1 with Apple Intelligence)

“Hey siri, play recently added” plays a song by a random artist named recently added

“Hey siri, play playlist recently added” does the same thing

“Hey siri, play the playlist in my library named recently added” tells me I have two recently added playlists which is not true

“Hey siri, tell me what is in each playlist” tells me it can’t access that

“Hey siri, play songs from my library my Katy Perry” plays Katy Perry radio which has a bunch of songs not in my library

ALL of these functions worked before the Siri AI “update”. I mainly use Siri when I’m driving and it’s even more infuriating now. It has always been trash but somehow with AI in a lot of ways it’s WORSE. We waited 2 years for this????

iOS: 27.0.1 (24A446) - iPhone 17 Pro Max

Asked siri a question earlier today and got this response.

Anyone else still find Siri completely useless? 🤔

OBVIOUSLY, IF I'M USING SIRI, IT'S SO THAT I CAN TALK TO MY PHONE INSTEAD OF STARE AT IT AND TYPE ON IT. DON'T FUCKING TELL ME TO LOOK AT THIS WEB LISTING. I ASKED YOU WITH MY WORDS TELL ME WITH YOUR WORDS. Siri used to be such a helpful assistant when she could actually carry a conversation, I don't understand why they took that away. All that I asked was read me the weekly hours for a store. She informed me that they're open today. OK, what are the weekly hours? " here's what I found on the web." FUCK. no. Read me the weekly hours. "They are open today". I DON'T CARE. what are the weekly hours for the store? "oh would you like to call the store?" NO DAMN IT WHAT ARE THE WEEKLY HOURS "here's what I found on the web" FUCK I'LL JUST DO IT MYSELF

I keep trying to figure out a use for this stupid worthless AI on the phone. I honestly am so shocked at how much of a fail this stupid thing is. Even reading emails is substantially worse than ChatGPT’s integration with Gmail. I think that Apple had the right philosophy, but the execution has been abysmal.

I just wish there was some way Apple could pivot and pay open AI to use their engine versus the junk that they are using in Siri.

I asked Siri to critique a draft Substack post I had written about Trump and Ukraine. This is the response I got. By that standard, maybe Apple shouldn’t have contributed $25 million to the Trump ballroom.