Siri has been out of beta for a while and has been in production for 5 years, but still have rough-edges? It's great that privacy is so great, but it defeats the point if usability is so low.
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 2:21 PM Alan Lemly <[email protected]> wrote: > Mary, > > Thanks for your comment. I agree completely about Siri's rough edges and > have also experienced the sane thing you described. Hopefully, we'll see > improvements that are consistent soon. > > Alan > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 22, 2016, at 3:44 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Alan, > I can't say I have seen this before, she will call a spoken phone number > in my experience. I have seen something related however, in that if I first > ask her to find a phone number for a business, which she does and then > asked me if I want to call it, and I said yes, she asked me who I want to > call. Or I should say he, since my Siri is a mail. Anyway, Siri definitely > has some rough edges that need to be fixed yesterday. > Mary > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 22, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Alan Lemly <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > I often ask Siri to call contacts and seldom have any problems with this. > However, I don't have any settings restricting incoming or outgoing calls > just to contacts in case I want to provide the phone number on the fly. > Today, I told Siri to call an 800 number of one of the free conferencing > services and gave her the appropriate 10 digits to call. She immediately > came back with a question of who I wanted her to call. I've never gotten > this sort of response before and I ended up having to launch the keypad and > manually typing in the 10 digit phone number. > > > > Has anyone else experienced such behavior from Siri? I'm running the > latest iOS 10.0.2 on my iPhone 6 with Verizon and have never experienced > this sort of inquisition before when giving Siri the phone number to call. > I'm curious what sort of delay I'm going to have if I ever ask her to call > 9 1 1 in an emergency. I won't have time to mess around with anything other > than her dialing the number. > > > > I welcome any comments and if anyone has a workaround to avoid this hassle > when giving Siri the number to call, I'd love to hear it. 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