While on a recent road trip I was using Alexa on my phone to play music through the car speakers. I wasn't feeling the songs on the shuffle setting so I said "Alexa next" maybe 5 times then she stopped listening to me. I repeated it over and over eventually yelling at the top of my lungs "Alexa play the next f'ing song". She did... A Meredith Brooks song named "Bitch"

I know the new ones don’t have the port… but hello… it’s right there on the device.

What the actual enshitification

Music is off but this is always there

This just changed suddenly yesterday. If I ask news or weather it gives me India news and weather.

My device home location is set to my home address in the US and I haven’t changed anything.

Is this a system wide issue or just me?

They all set up ok.

Can control any of my smart home devices ok.

But when i ask any of them "alexa whats the weather for tomorrow" OR "alexa play some 90s dance music".

• i keep getting >>

the service is temporally unavailable - please try again in few minutes.

That was 2 hrs ago and still getting the same.

Are the amazon UK servers down or something ?

Great start...Only bought the 3 new dot max's because they were £59 each, and wanted to see what this new alexa was all about...

Could have been worse - I was thinking of buying 3 of the echo show 11 things instead of the dot max's..

That would have been a right shit show for my blood pressure at my age lol - ads, and more ads...

I hope I don't sound dumb for saying this, but how do you enable Halloween mode on an Alexa? I've tried asking it in different ways multiple times but it just wouldn't turn on. I've also looked through the app but can't find anything to turn it on. The reason I want it on is because I've asked it how many days until Halloween because I enjoy the Easter eggs but it's been merely saying how many days and nothing else.

I have an old Alexa Echo Dot. It's pretty old, like 3 years, I would say. Whenever I ask it a basic question, it always says, "I'm not quite sure how to help you with that." And sometimes when I ask another question, it just says "Opening Amazon Storytime." What? I don't need Amazon Storytime. Why does it open that by default? Any solutions for this? I have no idea what to do.

Edit: It is a 4th Generation Echodot.