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Siri Is My Very Annoying Personal Assistant
I love her, but sometimes I wonder why
I often get very annoyed with Siri when she tells me that she can’t do something that should be very simple to do.
For example, my Apple watch can’t set multiple timers. That ability is said to be coming with watchOS 8, but it’s ridiculous that we’ve had to wait this long.
On my iPad which is currently running the iPadOS beta, asking for more than one timer is confusing. I can say “Set a ten minute rice timer” and then say “Set a 15 minute fish timer”. My iPad will say “There is already a ten minute rice timer. Replace it?”
However, if I say “Set a ten minute rice alarm” and follow that with “Set a 15 minute fish alarm”, the iPad obediently sets both without complaint. That’s just dumb. If it can set multiple alarms, why not multiple timers?
The HomePod Mini’s will allow multiple timers without any backtalk. Why can the Mini’s which are not running any beta OS do that but other devices cannot?
Inconsistency, thy name art Siri!
I’ve sworn at Siri on Carplay when she would not tell me what is on my calendar today. She would tell me how many appointments I had, but not what they were. More recently, “What’s on my…
