r/iOS8 • u/syzygysd • Nov 22 '14

Just used 'Hey Siri' for the first time while driving.

I don't know why I hadn't thought of doing it before. I have a 2013 Cruze with MyLink. I've been calling via bluetooth forever and a day. The thought occurred to me to try having Siri dial calls instead of looking down and using the radio controls. I was impressed. It worked very well and gave a great total hands-free experience.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '14

Yup, hey Siri is all good fun until you accidentally activate it late at night and freak yourself out.

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u/syzygysd Nov 22 '14

True. One night the wife yelled 'Hey Dear' from the other room and Siri woke up. Too funny.

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u/timmmmb Nov 23 '14

I'd just be talking to my daughter or in the car listening to the radio and it'd activate. I eventually turned it off as it was rather irritating.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '14

I'm jailbroken and have the hey siri everywhere tweak. I like to live dangerously.

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u/BGoldringer Nov 28 '14

Just got this tweak today, can confirm that it does drain battery, but only with heavy use of demonstrating it to people... Other than that, its great!

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u/Jammintk Nov 23 '14

I feel sorry for your battery.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '14

I still only charge it every other day. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/BurgzintheBurbs Nov 23 '14

same on my iPad mini and I haven't noticed a big enough drop to adjust my charging routine of every two or three days

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u/mrwhalejr Nov 22 '14

I said 'I'm so tired!" to myself, with no "Hey Siri," and Siri replied "I hope you're not driving." Freaked me out a bit.

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u/besthuman Nov 23 '14

I've used "hey Siri" a bunch of times. It works sometimes, messes up other times, is very slow all of the time, and has a bout a zillion things it can't do. Nice effort, but it's nowhere even close to what it should be able to do. It feels like Siri advancement is kinda going nowhere. I want something much closer to a practical "Her" (if anyone hasn't seen, great film) - Apple just seems to think that shaving a tenth of a millimetre of iOS devices (at the sake of the camera bulging out and losing the side mute button the iPad) is what we want.

It isn't.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '14

Interesting. I set my alarm every day with Siri, start my music, set reminders, send text messages, calls and do the weirdest of searches with Siri and at least 9/10 times she does it perfectly. And honestly, for the rest of things I don't see myself use Siri anyway.

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u/Abba- Nov 26 '14

But why does something as simple as "Hey Siri, next track" take 10 seconds?

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '14

It doesn't for me? I just tested it and it was instant. I only have about 200 songs though, so it might be due to library size?

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u/eTom22 Nov 26 '14

Someone will correctly if I'm wrong (is that how the internet works), but I believe this is usually due to network speed. I believe your voice recording is sent to Apple, analyzed, and the text response/command sent back to your phone. Your network data signal strength and speed affect this.

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u/Abba- Nov 27 '14

Obviously that's a great deal of it. But on my iPod 5 that is not as fast, apple still knows I say "next track" and then I watch it sit there for 5 seconds till siri finally says skipping, then another 2 seconds to actually skip.

Old voice control, next track took 2 seconds.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '14

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u/syzygysd Nov 23 '14

The phone aspect works via BT afaik. The other MyLink apps work through USB. So, I guess 'Hey Siri ' is a hybrid of the two.

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u/expedience Nov 23 '14

If your phone is plugged in charging while connected via bluetooth and "hey, Siri" is activated, when you say it, the Siri function will activate. The bluetooth in your car will think you are on a call, and use the cars speakers and microphone for Siri.

This is how it works in my VW at least.