No, Apple did not break this functionality. I have an iPhone 5 and it works as it has previously. I am running iOS 6.14, the latest version. Then again, I am in NZ, and our networks are usually not overloaded here.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 13/05/2013, at 2:53, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ricardo, > > Yes, but I think what Rose pointed out and what Beth asked refers to the > fact that if you dictate something and for some reason SIRI gets it all > wrong and it's easier to start over rather than correct with the keyboard, > one can shake the phone and SIRI will ask you if you want to undo the last > batch of text. This is very handy if you dictate a longer email a couple of > sentences at a time. SIRI will just delete the most recently spoken portion > of your text. > > As for Beth's question as to why this doesn't work on her iPhone 5 I have no > answer. However, unless Apple broke this functionality in some way in the > iOS 6.1.4 update which is for the iPhone 5 only it should work just fine. > One thing though, you do really have to give the iPhone a good hard shake, > it is probably designed not to react if you shake it just a bit in order to > avoid this to activate by mistake. I don't really see that Apple would > accidently break this sort of functionality. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Ricardo Walker > Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 2:44 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Using Siri question. > > Hi, > > Doesn't pressing the home button cancel Siri? > > Ricardo Walker > [email protected] > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On May 12, 2013, at 1:19 AM, Beth G <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> When I shake the phone to cancel Siri, nothing happens. I looked in > settings to see if there was a setting to turn shake on, but did not see > anything. Does this not work with the iPhone five and iOS 6.13? Thanks >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On May 11, 2013, at 3:10 PM, "Rose Combs" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Shake the phone, it will ask you i you want to cancel the message and you > can try again. If I am really tired sometimes I have to use this action. >>> >>> >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Fred Olver >>> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 1:39 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Using Siri question. >>> >>> When I attempt to send a message using Siri, sometimes the words are > miss-translated. 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