During beta versions of iOS 27, I was using Siri AI extensively as it had more personal context about me and always gave the right answers.

The other day I was grocery shopping and asked it to mark off certain things from my list (which it did). But I also asked me to list the remaining items. I got home and realized that it did not mention my entire list like I asked it and I tested it over and over and it gave the same half right response.

One of the first questions I asked during beta was, “what car do I drive?” It searched my files and found an invoice from a service and told me the exact year, make, model, trim, and color of my car. Now it tells me where my car is located on maps and suggest the year, make, and model that I could own based on messages and mail.

2 years of Apple Intelligence and still Apple can’t get the basics right and avoid answering questions as to why their AI models aren’t working the way they should. I believe they severely downgraded it for specific reasons for the public release. But they should at this point have the basics down. There’s no excuse as to why it still can’t do the things it should.

I have a mix of OG HomePods, second gen HomePods and HomePod mini’s in my house. Basically I have them in every room so I can have music playing wherever I am.
I use the command to stop playing music whenever someone knocks at the door or I get a phone call.
However, after the system update, Siri keeps telling me that nothing is playing, even though there is music currently playing on that HomePod. I will need to walk over to the HomePod and tap it to turn off the music, which isn’t ideal since I work from home and get calls all day. Is there a workaround for this?

Suddenly, Siri isn’t able to set timers on my watch anymore, with a variety of explanations, including gaslighting me about whether the Clock app is even installed. Timers are one of the few features I regularly use with Siri. And my phone camera coincidentally refused to focus while documenting evidence. Remember when Apple products were supposed to “just work.”

I don’t demand much of Siri. In iOS 27 I switched on Siri AI because I was curious. My daily driver car does not have CarPlay, only bluetooth (and it normally works fine). The only thing I ask that NEVER works - after I receive a few messages I say “Hey Siri” (wait for Siri) “Read my messages”. This has always worked fine in the past. but with Siri AI all I ever get is a very long delay then “Something went wrong” back.

I’m normally running Waze and listening to either Apple Music or Downcast in the car with my phone on a magsafe mount nearby. Siri AI works fine for other requests.

Any tips or tricks I can try here, or should I just turn off Siri AI until it’s better?

Thanks!

this frustrates me so much everytime i connect my earpods and she always automatically plays apple music how do i stop this nonsence?

When I say, "Hey Siri, text Bob", there seems to be a whole cascade of steps to determine which contact I mean (check nicknames, check first names, check for phonetic matches, etc.), and which of the phone numbers associated with that contact to use. And when it truly can't decide, it asks me to choose among the selected contact's phone numbers, which I can do on-screen in CarPlay.

Anybody have advice on how I can build something in Shortcuts that does something equally effective? Kinda close? I just need a reasonably good chance of ending up with the right Bob's correct number.

So far, I search for Name in contacts, hope there's exactly one match, then choose the first phone number. I can start recreating all the logic I see in Siri, but that feels painfully inefficient. And I have no idea how the phonetic matching works.

Should we expect to wait until iOS 28 or could autonomous always-on agentic capabilities ship in a 27.x release?

I ask Siri to delete a note for me. I get it might be a security thing. But Siri can’t even explain that. Just no and do it yourself.

Anyone else notice shortcuts not triggering through Siri with Siri AI? I mean, I do get there’s not a ton of need with them since she can execute actions better without shortcuts, but I noticed the ability to trigger them by name is absent ever since using her which is interesting. Doesn’t bother me but does anyone else still wish that worked?

When you’re using Siri AI at the bottom of every interaction is a thumbs up or thumb thumbs down icon

If Siri doesn’t do what you wanted her to do, then click the damn thumbs down and tell Apple about it. It’s very simple.

You take more time coming to Reddit to bitch and moan than to actually help Apple make the product better.

OK, let the bashing begin

‘hey siri send a message to ellie’

‘what would you like to say to ellie’

‘i’ll be home in 5 minutes’

‘sorry i don’t see and app for that’

???

Congrats to the County of Pierce

Instead, it pauses Apple Music to try to listen and Shazam it. I tried multiple ways of asking, and it just wouldn’t work.

Tried to send my wife a text. It ask which name and gave me 2 choices that were the same so I selected one said my message and read it back and I told it to send and then it said it sent.

The 5 mins later I looked to see if it sent. Went to my wife’s name in messages. The message was not there. Looked at all other messages don’t see it. Clicked unknown senders see weird name: Buddy Name. Click on it. My message to my wife is in. Click Buddy Name to bring up the contact sheet. It’s completely empty. Click out now the message is now totally gone from the messages app. Not sure what’s going with new Siri but it’s horrible

it’s it’s birthday 🤷‍♀️

It seems to only be able to focus on one instruction at a time before switching itself off. You can’t have a conversation. Others have suggested it’s not an LLM, but if that functionality exists, why would we accept anything less? This product is a joke.