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[iOS 17 DB1] Siri Back to Back requests (self.iosbeta)

submitted 2 years ago by marcar to c/iosbeta

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Has anyone successfully achieved back to back request functionality on the iOS 17 beta?

I’ve successfully enabled the “Siri” invocation instead of “Hey Siri,” but I’m struggling to make back-to-back requests work.

Has anyone worked it out?

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[–] astrobound 2 points 2 years ago

worked for me when I asked “Siri what’s the weather tonight”, then “what about tomorrow”.

[–] LJay71 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For me it works depending on what the first command was. If I say "Siri, open messages" it will just open the app and Siri goes away. However, if I say "Siri, turn on the lights" the lights turn on and Siri continues listening for the next command for a few seconds.

[–] marcar 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This wasn’t working for me but I managed to get it working by resetting Siri..

What I can’t get going is chained requests, that other people seem to be able to do I.e Siri turn the lights to 50% and green.

[–] LJay71 1 points 2 years ago

Same. That doesn’t work for me either. It seems like the context of the first request is lost.

[–] teflocarbon 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's been very fucky with me anyway. I've tried to get it to work a few times and it's always messed up. Pretty disappointing to see, although it is the first beta.

I don't think it was things like "set the lights to 100% and green" I think they planned on people doing "set the lights to 100%, set the lights to green", which still doesn't work very well for me.

Unsurprisingly, Siri still feels very unbaked, which is very disappointing all things considered.

[–] marcar 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You are correct, I that's how I understood it from the WWDC presentation, but then I read some comments on by other users on reddit that seem to be able to string them together in one command, but I may have misinterpreted it.

It's early days for the beta, hopefully they get it sorted out, but I agree, overall Siri is disappointing given where others platforms have progressed.

[–] teflocarbon 2 points 2 years ago

I just tried “set the lights to 100% and green” a few times on lights and it only got the first part, but it allowed me to do “set the lights to 100%" and then “set the lights to green" immediately afterwards, which it did get.

So from that, it's probably more so that it just "Continued Conversation" like Google Home and I think Alexa has had for awhile now, I don't think it was the contextual natural language commands that I think we were all hoping for.