I may be one of the few who upgraded from an SE to a 9 because of the onboard Siri. I commute 2.5 hours a day. During that time, I try to get some of my business done. I think that the Siri experience is a lot better now. The responses are definitely faster, and they rarely get dropped. I feel like the responses are more consistently on point. I also believe that the speech-to-text is more accurate.
Siri’s still not perfect by any means, and I’m still amazed and disappointed that Apple has neglected her for so long. (Among so many smaller issues, misspelling a name when you’re responding through a Contact where the name is spelled out correctly. I could go on and on…)
What do you all think? Is Siri a part of your life, and has the 9 advanced her relevance to you?
Can OB Siri tell you how long you’ve been exercising while doing a workout or what your current heart rate or zone is?
Does it do better with asking to play a specific radio station i.e. Siri play radio station WGN 720 AM will sometimes result in music playing from some artist I don’t know or a podcast from the station. It happens with other Chicago stations such as ESPN 1000, WLS 890. Only 670 the Score seems to work every time.
I’ve also got the driveway handoff issue. I imagine asking to start a workout works without issue but if I’m in that gray zone will a request to play music or radio which relies on a connection do a better job of queuing and then resolving the request once the signal is back? So often I just experience silence and have to reinitiate the request down the block when the signal finally works itself out.
Can you ask Siri to turn off WIFI on the watch which is one way I was considering dealing with that handoff issue.
I realize much of this can be done onscreen but as I mentioned in another thread on this subject we are in long sleeve, winter jacket mode now in the Chicago area.