Even though I’m a big time Apple fanboy, I will readily admit that Google's OK google feature eats Siri's lunch and probably has done so for a while now. I don't even bother asking Siri to initiate a call to any of my contacts as I find the process to be tedious and prolonged. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Stone Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 1:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
I find that Siri almost always asks me to confirm the person I want to call, even if it's my wife for instance, and Siri knows she's my wife so I have no idea why. On 29/11/2015 21:12, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: > I find this quite interesting since for a while SIRI did the same thing for > our local taxi company even though I have them in my contacts as well. Then > for a while it called them again just fine using my contact and now again it > goes back to looking it up online. Also, right now SIRI is often asking me > again if the person I told SIRI to call was the one I wanted to call and I > have to confirm first. It seems SIRI is rather inconsistent at time or maybe > Appleis just fooling around with different settings and ways for SIRI to do > things. I think that SIRI should always first check ones contacts and use > that. I also had it where I asked SIRI to call "BV Taxi" our local taxi > company, and it said "I don't have a number for BV Taxi". When I told SIRI to > "Show me BV Taxi" it showed me the contacts entry with phone number and I > know for sure that a number is there in the proper dialing format. Don't > think there is anything much y ou can do about it except maybe give feedback > to Apple and suggest they should just get their act together and make SIRI > work a bit better. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Barry Abbott > Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 8:52 AM > To: 'Adrian Leong' via VIPhone <[email protected]> > Subject: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone > > Wondering if anyone has a solution > > Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi" > Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you > want?" > > I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When calling from my > Apple watch under friends it does what I ask > > I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being > useful when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your contacts > Is there any way to change it so that it works like it did under iOS 7. > I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone. > > Thanks in advance. > > Barry > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
