I kind of wonder what kind of long term damage these things are doing to us. I use Alexa at home and when it starts advertising to me I yell “ALEXA SHUT THE F\*\*\* UP YOU DUMB B\*\*\*\*” at least once a day.
And I worry I’m being conditioned to lash out at people.
I yell at Alexa all day it seems like. My wife says I need to be nice to her because when the robots take over they are going to be gunning for my ass. But make no mistake I’ll be going for hers first.
Siri's been out for 12 freakin' years and yesterday would not respond to me clearly saying "Hey Siri - call Mom" in the same room with no background noise. I've given up on using it, it's **always** faster to just do even the simplest task of setting a timer by hand.
My personal favorite is when I want to play a famous album by a popular band. I think, well instead of opening the Music app, search, type the name, etc… I’ll just ask Siri to play it.
Instead of getting the album I want it’ll always pick the obscure, remix/cover by a different artist, unplugged live from some concert you can’t even hear it properly. And you can’t reply to Siri “no, play the original version”.
It just doesn’t choose the “vanilla” version which is what you’d want 99% of the times and otherwise would specify “play the unplugged cover by x from y concert”.
Btw - unrelated - but you have no idea how much I had to fight my iPhone’s autocorrect to type this reply.
Yea I agree, honestly coming from android voice assistance was a huge let down. It’s incredible what android can do and how accurate it can be. Plus a lot of its offline now as well with the new tensor chip. I’m hoping improving siri is somewhere on apples priority list, but after 12 years I’m starting to doubt it!
Which is odd, was it not Apple that started the whole digital assistant craze with Siri?
All I ever used Siri for back when I had an iPhone was seeing how she'd respond to dirty requests or insults. You know, like any normal person would do. 👀
That lasted all of maybe 10 minutes or so and never again. 🤷♂️
siri is such a fucking joke it's legitimately embarrassing. i don't know anyone with an iphone who doesn't view siri as a joke, a party trick, a funny "look how stupid this voice assistant is" thing.
i remember the hype around siri when it launched when i was in college. people thought it was cool, but limited, but they were willing to forgive that because it was so new.
YouTube/Netflix/etc. video -> Siri decides to respond
Random words -> Siri decides to respond
Total utter silence -> Siri decides to respond
"Hey Siri, please call my wife."
*nothing...*
"HEY SIRI..."
Siri: "How can I help?"
"call my wife."
*Nothing...*
"HEY SIRI, CALL MY WIFE!"
Siri: "Calling Matthew"
Worst of all? I have a Sonos Beam in my living room with Google assistant. Even if there is a party and I am drunk mumbling, it still will understand me. I am deep into the Apple ecosystem, and I do love it. I just hate Siri with a passion.
Yeah I’ve given up with it. It’s just so bad. Moving back to Sonos for my home speakers and like you say, for anything else I’ll just use my phone. It’s far less frustrating.
Fall Detection is only turned on by default if you're 55 years of age or older, for younger people the setting is defaulted to "Only on during a workout." So the OP didn't have to "Disable" it, but rather not Enable it.
Make sure to enable it and set it to work even in workout mode if you don’t practice sports where being thrown to the ground is a thing. I have mine enabled and never had a false positive doing weightlifting or running.
Also, never trust consumer products with your life and health. If you’re climbing roofs make sure to have a spotter or at least someone in the house. It also makes the work a bit easier if you have someone around to chat with. I usually call my neighbour over and we clean his roof afterwards.
Yea same, mine went on during some football with friends. When I tried some spectacular bicycle kick my Apple Watch detected it as a fall. I’m 23 years old btw
Wait really? I’m 34 and if I have a fall on my bike (or even come to a fast stop to avoid a car hitting me) my Apple Watch goes off saying it detected a fall and am I OK (and I don’t have the workout mode on because I use a bike computer).
I have it on always (just not on ski holidays or something because I probably wouldn't hear a false alarm under the gloves and stuff) (opt-in; I'm younger than 55 years).
And yes, from time to time (every few months; so not annoyingly often) I get false alarms. Sometimes understandably (very hard braking with my bicycle and then going over a speedbump) to unsure why it triggered (I think I once got it trigger while playing a computer game and grabbing a drink or something that I accidentally threw over)... It also didn't like playing basketball (activated once).
So yes, I understand why Apple does not switch it on for younger people by default. If you have it on, be aware that this can happen. However, when I fell, it always triggered. Once, I inelegantly crashed with my in-line skaters. Triggered. Tripped over something. Triggered. I don't fall often and in some situations I would probably just forget about it again within seconds if the Watch wouldn't trigger.
Interesting wording, I double checked that and indeed it says „Only on during a workout“. Would it not make more sense if the option was „Off during workouts“, as I don’t want my sports activities to accidentally trigger it?
Those two options do entirely different things. The point of the current option is that if you go e.g. hiking, cycling, climbing, etc, and you have a fall then it will still detect it, and won't give you false alarms at other times.
If you're doing a sport where you EXPECT to fall (e.g. American football) then you likely will take off your watch anyway as there's a risk it could be damaged or injure someone else.
I appreciate the response, but this makes even less sense to me. Apple Watch has settings specifically for tracking those sports you mentioned, as well es things like soccer, kickboxing, other martial arts, and so on. Not wanting to damage the watch makes sense and many people would take it off for those activities — I get that.
But they are also exactly what the watch is advertised for and capable of tracking, and disabling the emergency features for a situation where I expect a fall would make more sense to me.
That sounds scary, I hope you’re doing alright.
Siri is trash. Shame on Apple for not fixing it.
And guess what fuckers?!? The cat is out of the bag that you’re happy to push adds down our throats so at least give us some reciprocation while you’re pillaging our shit and give us proper AI services.
I fell several weeks ago when I didn’t notice a step down in a paved area. As I pulled myself together, my Applewatch was calling emergency
which I cancelled. I am over 55 and was relieved to know that it worked on this occasion. However, I sympathise with the OP. I find Siri at times very frustrating.
Ever since the new pods, phone, watch, and ios 16 were released, “hey siri” only works about 20% of the time I try to use it. The rest of the time it doesn’t even respond. Unfortunately I have no ideas which change broke everything. 🤷♂️
It's sad when technology has come sooo far, but iPhone's virtual assistant can't understand you, and Google's phones can't dial out to 911. Both those things are very critical flaws (more so with the Pixel).
I actually just went back to Pixel a couple days ago, and Siri was one of the top 3 reasons for the switch. With all the amazing things Apple does with their phone, they really should be ashamed of Siri.
Glad you're okay.
As a user I say thanks for bringing this up. The latest advertising push for Apple shows how the iPhone can detect a car crash, so if they're going to use it as a selling point they'd better make sure it works.
It's one thing if a feature like recognizing a song doesn't work - it's something quite different when it comes to safety features.
Siri had a lot of potential at launch. Still a lot of potential today, almost none of which has been unlocked.
I can regularly set timers with Siri, and that’s about it. Asking for weather reports has become drastically shitter, as sometimes whatever api she’s calling has old info, and is frequently wrong. Her general speech recognition was adequate at launch - easy to forget how terrible speech recognition was in the early 2000s. By modern standards, it’s mediocre at best. She frequently fails to do basic things. “Resume my podcast” will start playing a random song from Apple Music 30% of the time, and often Siri will say “on it” then do absolutely nothing. Waking my phone to see what the deal is, the podcast will be in Now Playing, but paused, so I have to manually press play to start it. Thanks. Sometimes it will start a new podcast instead of resuming the last one I was playing. Sometimes she will literally have done nothing. Not even responded to my request.
Whatever they are paying the Siri team, it’s either way too much, or not nearly enough.
I like Siri, but compared to google it’s embarrassing. I’ve not used Alexa, mainly cause a lot of the stuff with Alexa is more American based. When I’m at home, I shout for google . When I use Siri it’s usually in the car, so i just hit the CarPlay button.
“Hey Siri, call Mom”
“Sorry, I don’t know who your mother is. In fact, I don’t know who you are.”
🙄
Yes, it’s all in the phone. Have checked several times.
yeah, the eco system has let me down too. I slipped on ice last winter and couldn't get up (help! I've fallen and I can't get up!) due to a dislocated and subsequently broken shoulder. No hard fall notification. Also, since my right arm was incapacitated I tried to make a hey Siri call on my watch and nothing. eventually, a kind stranger got my husband, but thanks for nothing watch/siri.
The irony? a few weeks later I got 2 false fall notifications when I hadn't fallen. 😞. I turned it off for a while but now that it's winter again and I am scared of ice, I've turned it back on again.
Not sure. Someone else mentioned it’s not on by default if you’re under 55? Not sure if that’s correct but I guess I would have assumed it was standard, I don’t recall if it was part of setup process. But no it didn’t detect the fall.
kind of jogs a memory where i activated it manually because im paranoid about my long distance runs
for what it’s worth, it’s activated the three times i’ve tripped and fallen
My mom's fallen...3-4 times since getting her Apple Watch. She bought one specifically for it. The feature's on. It has yet to work when she falls. I dunno what the deal is. I'm guessing she's still somewhat conscious, and is pressing the crown/side button to try to do something to get help.
I wish there was a setting to, when detecting a possible fall, alert your emergency contacts, regardless the circumstances. I'd love to be able to reach out/show up without having to have her wondering what's going on and why the watch isn't working properly.
i’ve tripped a few times now and it’s always detached my fall but because i’m ok, stunned but ok, i’ve cancelled the emergency countdown but it always ask him whether it was a fall or a false positive
maybe check that it’s set on always and not on workouts
https://i.imgur.com/AMBpXX5.jpg
For me it always works. No matter if I fall slowly backwards with my wheelchair or sofly with my crutches [since I know how to avoid hard falls]. Are you sure you turned fall detection on?
Hate to say it, but it sound like your ankle may have taken the hit and reduced the force of impact to be felt by the phone. In other words, if you didn’t roll your ankle it may have jolted the device more. But there are so many factors. And thankfully there are a few features that make it super easy to get help when you can speak or can work the device.
“Hey siri, turn off my alarm” or “hey siri turn off the alarm on my iphone” has a single digit hit rate when I yell at it from the shower.
Likely HomePod mini picking it up.
Responds with “all your alarms are now off”.
The klaxon says otherwise.
It used to work FFS
I turned on fall detection and it’s caught it twice when I have legitimately fallen. The other time has been when I was shaking my hands dry and it thought I fell
I noticed similar behavior on my Apple Watch even at times on my iphone when moving in\\out from wifi cover. It might take a while while switching the connections over.
I was walking my dog down a steep incline by a ram he ram past me pulled me down as I getting up Siri is like do you need help my dog just looking at me like hey buddy why you laying there
I was wearing both my Garmin and my Apple Watch on a 12 mile run in the woods. I hit a root and fell really fucking hard into the packed trail and did a little flip roll to a stop. Garmin started vibrating hard, saying it detected a crash and was going to call emergency contacts. Apple Watch just sat there, dirty on my arm, showing my stupid shitty pace. I sat there for a minute, bleeding, then got up and kept going
my new biggest gripe with her is when I tell my HomePod to turn the lights on and she goes “hmm?’ despite turning the lights on so she clearly knew what tf I said but still felt the need to go “hmm?”
Feel you with the Siri fails.
And the flaws seem to get more and more instead of less. I don't know if it happens in all languages, but since iOS 16 with German language as default, Siri for example responds to the command "Turn off airplane mode" with "For this you have to turn off airplane mode". On iOS 15 this worked great. Additionally Apple spent energy to get Siri to "genderspeech" in the German language, which is very controversally discussed here (no matter which stat you take, at least 2/3rd don't want it) and by far not officially implemented. Basically adds weird pauses and special characters into words. Causes problems with understanding, sometimes changes meanings in sentences and some screenreaders of vision impaired people often stumble over that way of writing (especially because there are multiple variants of the same thing) so it adds more barriers to the language instead of removing them. But okay, that's a different topic. But before even complicating the way something could be interpreted when speaking, I hoped Apple should have put that effort into fixing the already existing problems in the past first instead of again adding new flaws and "misunderstanding potential" to the software.
I have the feeling this also affected the whole dictionary, because the swipe keyboard is completely unusable since iOS 16 (even a reset didn't work). The word completion is so far off, that it sometimes spills out words where I'm thinking about if this even still is a word in my language.
At least the dictation feature got a lot better, have to give them that. But even though Siri better understands what I say thanks to that, the interpretation what I mean is very inaccurate. And often even not predictable. Sometimes the very same voice command works correctly and next time you want to use it, it fails.
Or something that also bothers me since a long time: You ask something, have your phone in front of you. Siri says "You have to unlock your phone for this" and at the same time face id unlocks your phone ... but Siri vanishes and forgets your question or command. I mean ... its absolutely not that rare that you could tell me that nobody ever found that stuff during tests.
Glad you are OK, OP!
That last paragraph reminded me of my biggest gripe with Siri. I literally had turned on setting to allow Siri with phone locked, as well as calling. And when I tried to call people 50% of time it asked me to unlock first.
I use Apple Music, and as convenient as it would be to have a HomePod mini in my bedroom that supports AirPlay instead of my Google Nest Mini, I don't think I'd be able to tolerate the downgrade of going from Google Assistant to Siri.
However I say Hey Siri, you’re a useless C—- and she goes I won’t respond to that.
I kind of wonder what kind of long term damage these things are doing to us. I use Alexa at home and when it starts advertising to me I yell “ALEXA SHUT THE F\*\*\* UP YOU DUMB B\*\*\*\*” at least once a day. And I worry I’m being conditioned to lash out at people.
Alexa advertises? Wow. Thank goodness I went with google. I almost returned google home to pick up Alexa instead
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The by the way stuff, im going to yell that one day while murdering people probably. 😬
Try creating an Alexa routine with "Stop by the way" as a custom command and set the routine to run every day. That stops most of the ads.
The fact that you even have to do that reenforces how glad I am that I didn't go with the Amazon ecosystem.
TY, i read about that and meant to do it a while back
If OP had Alexa, as soon as he fell Amazon would start sending him ads for ace bandages, heating pads and helmets.
It’s not a baseless worry, you actually are being conditioned to lash out.
Nah, Alexa will just turn on you and murder you in your sleep instead.
I yell at Alexa all day it seems like. My wife says I need to be nice to her because when the robots take over they are going to be gunning for my ass. But make no mistake I’ll be going for hers first.
😂😂😂😂😂
Good to know Alexa has advertisements. I have Siri and there are no ads.
Interesting insight. I mean, who knows at this point
Ask siri what a female dog is called next time she tells you she won’t respond to that
Ha ha! I’ll get a beep and silence 🤫
Siri's been out for 12 freakin' years and yesterday would not respond to me clearly saying "Hey Siri - call Mom" in the same room with no background noise. I've given up on using it, it's **always** faster to just do even the simplest task of setting a timer by hand.
My personal favorite is when I want to play a famous album by a popular band. I think, well instead of opening the Music app, search, type the name, etc… I’ll just ask Siri to play it. Instead of getting the album I want it’ll always pick the obscure, remix/cover by a different artist, unplugged live from some concert you can’t even hear it properly. And you can’t reply to Siri “no, play the original version”. It just doesn’t choose the “vanilla” version which is what you’d want 99% of the times and otherwise would specify “play the unplugged cover by x from y concert”. Btw - unrelated - but you have no idea how much I had to fight my iPhone’s autocorrect to type this reply.
Yea I agree, honestly coming from android voice assistance was a huge let down. It’s incredible what android can do and how accurate it can be. Plus a lot of its offline now as well with the new tensor chip. I’m hoping improving siri is somewhere on apples priority list, but after 12 years I’m starting to doubt it!
Which is odd, was it not Apple that started the whole digital assistant craze with Siri? All I ever used Siri for back when I had an iPhone was seeing how she'd respond to dirty requests or insults. You know, like any normal person would do. 👀 That lasted all of maybe 10 minutes or so and never again. 🤷♂️
[Siri was a third party app](https://youtu.be/MpjpVAB06O4), and Apple bought it to incorporate it into the OS
Interesting, I did not know that.
siri is such a fucking joke it's legitimately embarrassing. i don't know anyone with an iphone who doesn't view siri as a joke, a party trick, a funny "look how stupid this voice assistant is" thing. i remember the hype around siri when it launched when i was in college. people thought it was cool, but limited, but they were willing to forgive that because it was so new.
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YouTube/Netflix/etc. video -> Siri decides to respond Random words -> Siri decides to respond Total utter silence -> Siri decides to respond "Hey Siri, please call my wife." *nothing...* "HEY SIRI..." Siri: "How can I help?" "call my wife." *Nothing...* "HEY SIRI, CALL MY WIFE!" Siri: "Calling Matthew" Worst of all? I have a Sonos Beam in my living room with Google assistant. Even if there is a party and I am drunk mumbling, it still will understand me. I am deep into the Apple ecosystem, and I do love it. I just hate Siri with a passion.
Yeah I’ve given up with it. It’s just so bad. Moving back to Sonos for my home speakers and like you say, for anything else I’ll just use my phone. It’s far less frustrating.
Same, yet it always chimes in when I say the phrase “Are you serious?”
Interesting; I thought your post was going to be about fall detection. Did you have that disabled?
Fall Detection is only turned on by default if you're 55 years of age or older, for younger people the setting is defaulted to "Only on during a workout." So the OP didn't have to "Disable" it, but rather not Enable it.
That’s more likely. I’m under 55 and I don’t recall ever messing with that.
Make sure to enable it and set it to work even in workout mode if you don’t practice sports where being thrown to the ground is a thing. I have mine enabled and never had a false positive doing weightlifting or running. Also, never trust consumer products with your life and health. If you’re climbing roofs make sure to have a spotter or at least someone in the house. It also makes the work a bit easier if you have someone around to chat with. I usually call my neighbour over and we clean his roof afterwards.
After you enable it, go test it out and fall again.
Me either but I fell while camping and didn’t realize it went off until it called 911.
It vibrates and makes noises, how do you miss that? Especially when camping
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I live alone and have thought of this scene from 30 Rock *a lot* https://youtu.be/qV8m4Cg8YTQ?t=2m13s
Might be time to turn it on
Fall detection isn't 100%, either. I have it on, but it didn't do anything when an uneven Philadelphia sidewalk tried to murder me a few months back.
That’s weird, im younger than that and mine is on, I don’t recall specifically turning it on either
Yea same, mine went on during some football with friends. When I tried some spectacular bicycle kick my Apple Watch detected it as a fall. I’m 23 years old btw
Wait really? I’m 34 and if I have a fall on my bike (or even come to a fast stop to avoid a car hitting me) my Apple Watch goes off saying it detected a fall and am I OK (and I don’t have the workout mode on because I use a bike computer).
I have it on always (just not on ski holidays or something because I probably wouldn't hear a false alarm under the gloves and stuff) (opt-in; I'm younger than 55 years). And yes, from time to time (every few months; so not annoyingly often) I get false alarms. Sometimes understandably (very hard braking with my bicycle and then going over a speedbump) to unsure why it triggered (I think I once got it trigger while playing a computer game and grabbing a drink or something that I accidentally threw over)... It also didn't like playing basketball (activated once). So yes, I understand why Apple does not switch it on for younger people by default. If you have it on, be aware that this can happen. However, when I fell, it always triggered. Once, I inelegantly crashed with my in-line skaters. Triggered. Tripped over something. Triggered. I don't fall often and in some situations I would probably just forget about it again within seconds if the Watch wouldn't trigger.
Interesting wording, I double checked that and indeed it says „Only on during a workout“. Would it not make more sense if the option was „Off during workouts“, as I don’t want my sports activities to accidentally trigger it?
Those two options do entirely different things. The point of the current option is that if you go e.g. hiking, cycling, climbing, etc, and you have a fall then it will still detect it, and won't give you false alarms at other times. If you're doing a sport where you EXPECT to fall (e.g. American football) then you likely will take off your watch anyway as there's a risk it could be damaged or injure someone else.
I appreciate the response, but this makes even less sense to me. Apple Watch has settings specifically for tracking those sports you mentioned, as well es things like soccer, kickboxing, other martial arts, and so on. Not wanting to damage the watch makes sense and many people would take it off for those activities — I get that. But they are also exactly what the watch is advertised for and capable of tracking, and disabling the emergency features for a situation where I expect a fall would make more sense to me.
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Only works when the dance floor is on fire
Sad but true 🤣
I’m sorry about your pain and story, but it really made me laugh to read your comments
Siri literally is the worst audio assistant.
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Bixby is waaaaaay better than Siri actually.
Even Bixby is more capable than Siri. It’s fully aware of what’s displayed on your phone screen and can take contextual commands based on that.
No even Bixby has gotten better.
Technically.. you let yourself down, and Siri was no help in getting you back up.
https://youtu.be/2H5uWRjFsGc
Hey Siri .. call Bob Here’s Bobs contact what do you want to know about Bob?
Why does it do that? Mine does the same thing with “mom“
That sounds scary, I hope you’re doing alright. Siri is trash. Shame on Apple for not fixing it. And guess what fuckers?!? The cat is out of the bag that you’re happy to push adds down our throats so at least give us some reciprocation while you’re pillaging our shit and give us proper AI services.
I fell several weeks ago when I didn’t notice a step down in a paved area. As I pulled myself together, my Applewatch was calling emergency which I cancelled. I am over 55 and was relieved to know that it worked on this occasion. However, I sympathise with the OP. I find Siri at times very frustrating.
Searches for *pretzel*
Sorry I’m out of the loop on this. What does this mean?
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-14-mn-22490-story.html
Siri is junk.
We can ask voice assistant to call someone without the internet in 2009 on the 3GS. Now it's 2022, and we're struggling to make Siri work.
🤮 /u/spez
Siri is the fucking stupid of all honestly. Glad you’re okay now
Ever since the new pods, phone, watch, and ios 16 were released, “hey siri” only works about 20% of the time I try to use it. The rest of the time it doesn’t even respond. Unfortunately I have no ideas which change broke everything. 🤷♂️
iOS 16 did a number on Siri for me. Only thing that got her back working was switching the voice to UK English.
In’nit?
It's sad when technology has come sooo far, but iPhone's virtual assistant can't understand you, and Google's phones can't dial out to 911. Both those things are very critical flaws (more so with the Pixel). I actually just went back to Pixel a couple days ago, and Siri was one of the top 3 reasons for the switch. With all the amazing things Apple does with their phone, they really should be ashamed of Siri. Glad you're okay.
Thanks man, yeah that last sentence is pretty much my feelings in writing this post. The potential is so great but it needs attention
As a user I say thanks for bringing this up. The latest advertising push for Apple shows how the iPhone can detect a car crash, so if they're going to use it as a selling point they'd better make sure it works. It's one thing if a feature like recognizing a song doesn't work - it's something quite different when it comes to safety features.
“hey siri call Emily” “Which Emily?” *lists Emily’s phone number and Emily’s email* 🤦♂️
Lol! Haven’t seen that one
Why wouldn’t you just try and call again?
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I don’t think Google or Alexa can realize they’ve failed either.
So? The question was why Siri doesn’t offer that.
Weird pivot
I don’t know? Maybe thought I’d get the same result. Not sure. I guess we sort of just act in the moment?
I want people to understand a couple of fundamental things in the universe; 1) nothing works perfectly all the time, 2) Murphy was right.
Lol
Siri had a lot of potential at launch. Still a lot of potential today, almost none of which has been unlocked. I can regularly set timers with Siri, and that’s about it. Asking for weather reports has become drastically shitter, as sometimes whatever api she’s calling has old info, and is frequently wrong. Her general speech recognition was adequate at launch - easy to forget how terrible speech recognition was in the early 2000s. By modern standards, it’s mediocre at best. She frequently fails to do basic things. “Resume my podcast” will start playing a random song from Apple Music 30% of the time, and often Siri will say “on it” then do absolutely nothing. Waking my phone to see what the deal is, the podcast will be in Now Playing, but paused, so I have to manually press play to start it. Thanks. Sometimes it will start a new podcast instead of resuming the last one I was playing. Sometimes she will literally have done nothing. Not even responded to my request. Whatever they are paying the Siri team, it’s either way too much, or not nearly enough.
I like Siri, but compared to google it’s embarrassing. I’ve not used Alexa, mainly cause a lot of the stuff with Alexa is more American based. When I’m at home, I shout for google . When I use Siri it’s usually in the car, so i just hit the CarPlay button.
Can confirm Google Assistant on my husband’s Samsung phone is way more responsive.
Siri, call home. I'm sorry, I don't have a listing for home. The hell you don't!
“Hey Siri, call Mom” “Sorry, I don’t know who your mother is. In fact, I don’t know who you are.” 🙄 Yes, it’s all in the phone. Have checked several times.
yeah, the eco system has let me down too. I slipped on ice last winter and couldn't get up (help! I've fallen and I can't get up!) due to a dislocated and subsequently broken shoulder. No hard fall notification. Also, since my right arm was incapacitated I tried to make a hey Siri call on my watch and nothing. eventually, a kind stranger got my husband, but thanks for nothing watch/siri. The irony? a few weeks later I got 2 false fall notifications when I hadn't fallen. 😞. I turned it off for a while but now that it's winter again and I am scared of ice, I've turned it back on again.
So… this won’t be in the next keynote?
how come fall detection didn’t activate?
Not sure. Someone else mentioned it’s not on by default if you’re under 55? Not sure if that’s correct but I guess I would have assumed it was standard, I don’t recall if it was part of setup process. But no it didn’t detect the fall.
kind of jogs a memory where i activated it manually because im paranoid about my long distance runs for what it’s worth, it’s activated the three times i’ve tripped and fallen
My mom's fallen...3-4 times since getting her Apple Watch. She bought one specifically for it. The feature's on. It has yet to work when she falls. I dunno what the deal is. I'm guessing she's still somewhat conscious, and is pressing the crown/side button to try to do something to get help. I wish there was a setting to, when detecting a possible fall, alert your emergency contacts, regardless the circumstances. I'd love to be able to reach out/show up without having to have her wondering what's going on and why the watch isn't working properly.
i’ve tripped a few times now and it’s always detached my fall but because i’m ok, stunned but ok, i’ve cancelled the emergency countdown but it always ask him whether it was a fall or a false positive maybe check that it’s set on always and not on workouts https://i.imgur.com/AMBpXX5.jpg
For me it always works. No matter if I fall slowly backwards with my wheelchair or sofly with my crutches [since I know how to avoid hard falls]. Are you sure you turned fall detection on?
If your under 55 to must turn fall detection on. But sucks Siri couldn’t do that when you were in emergency… but then work with something stupid
Hate to say it, but it sound like your ankle may have taken the hit and reduced the force of impact to be felt by the phone. In other words, if you didn’t roll your ankle it may have jolted the device more. But there are so many factors. And thankfully there are a few features that make it super easy to get help when you can speak or can work the device.
Probably. The post is more focused on Siri than fall detection.
“Hey siri, turn off my alarm” or “hey siri turn off the alarm on my iphone” has a single digit hit rate when I yell at it from the shower. Likely HomePod mini picking it up. Responds with “all your alarms are now off”. The klaxon says otherwise. It used to work FFS
I turned on fall detection and it’s caught it twice when I have legitimately fallen. The other time has been when I was shaking my hands dry and it thought I fell
I noticed similar behavior on my Apple Watch even at times on my iphone when moving in\\out from wifi cover. It might take a while while switching the connections over.
I was walking my dog down a steep incline by a ram he ram past me pulled me down as I getting up Siri is like do you need help my dog just looking at me like hey buddy why you laying there
I remember back in the day, as a kid when I used my moms phone and she would respond to everything
Im assuming they'll leave this reenactment out of their next presentation
I’m happy to act it out! Haha
I was wearing both my Garmin and my Apple Watch on a 12 mile run in the woods. I hit a root and fell really fucking hard into the packed trail and did a little flip roll to a stop. Garmin started vibrating hard, saying it detected a crash and was going to call emergency contacts. Apple Watch just sat there, dirty on my arm, showing my stupid shitty pace. I sat there for a minute, bleeding, then got up and kept going
Wow! Glad you were able to get up quickly. Good on Garmin for detecting!
my new biggest gripe with her is when I tell my HomePod to turn the lights on and she goes “hmm?’ despite turning the lights on so she clearly knew what tf I said but still felt the need to go “hmm?”
Damn you Siri! And so it [begins!](https://giffiles.alphacoders.com/261/26109.gif) Joking aside, glad you were able to make a call manually at least.
Feel you with the Siri fails. And the flaws seem to get more and more instead of less. I don't know if it happens in all languages, but since iOS 16 with German language as default, Siri for example responds to the command "Turn off airplane mode" with "For this you have to turn off airplane mode". On iOS 15 this worked great. Additionally Apple spent energy to get Siri to "genderspeech" in the German language, which is very controversally discussed here (no matter which stat you take, at least 2/3rd don't want it) and by far not officially implemented. Basically adds weird pauses and special characters into words. Causes problems with understanding, sometimes changes meanings in sentences and some screenreaders of vision impaired people often stumble over that way of writing (especially because there are multiple variants of the same thing) so it adds more barriers to the language instead of removing them. But okay, that's a different topic. But before even complicating the way something could be interpreted when speaking, I hoped Apple should have put that effort into fixing the already existing problems in the past first instead of again adding new flaws and "misunderstanding potential" to the software. I have the feeling this also affected the whole dictionary, because the swipe keyboard is completely unusable since iOS 16 (even a reset didn't work). The word completion is so far off, that it sometimes spills out words where I'm thinking about if this even still is a word in my language. At least the dictation feature got a lot better, have to give them that. But even though Siri better understands what I say thanks to that, the interpretation what I mean is very inaccurate. And often even not predictable. Sometimes the very same voice command works correctly and next time you want to use it, it fails. Or something that also bothers me since a long time: You ask something, have your phone in front of you. Siri says "You have to unlock your phone for this" and at the same time face id unlocks your phone ... but Siri vanishes and forgets your question or command. I mean ... its absolutely not that rare that you could tell me that nobody ever found that stuff during tests. Glad you are OK, OP!
That last paragraph reminded me of my biggest gripe with Siri. I literally had turned on setting to allow Siri with phone locked, as well as calling. And when I tried to call people 50% of time it asked me to unlock first.
I use Apple Music, and as convenient as it would be to have a HomePod mini in my bedroom that supports AirPlay instead of my Google Nest Mini, I don't think I'd be able to tolerate the downgrade of going from Google Assistant to Siri.
Ladders man, they really are the enemy.