The whole Siri thing kind of creeps me out a little deep on the inside. I think because it actually has a personality and can learn from its users, even when I first saw it in action I was still a little disturbed lol but that's just me. I would never use the functionality I anticipate, but I'm worried how it will advance in future editions of the iPhone.
Oops! The iPhone doesn't look at context; it automatically puts the apostrophe in regardless if it's needed or not. I forgot to fix it that time.
I wish Siri worked for initiating local tasks such as playing songs/playlists and creating notes/reminders when we don't have a data connection. I tried to play a playlist in my car today while I was in a remote area and it said I needed an internet connection to do that. Voice controls on the 3GS and iPhone 4 allowed us to control the iPod when we didn't have a data connection so I don't see why we can't at have limited capabilities like that on the iPhone 4S as well. I'm going to request this feature right now. http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
This feature worked fine on the 3GS and 4 without a data connection. We gain many new features with each new phone, but we also lose a couple. On the iPhone 4, we lost double-tap for favorites and on the 4S, we lost voice activated iPod controls when in a no service area.
While you are no doubt correct there still needs to be access without a net connection... Having Siri shut down totally is unacceptable IMHO. Michael
I asked someone the same question earlier this week and they said you can turn voice command on if you turn Siri off. I guess it's not true than.
Then presumably they're going for a consistent user experience. I haven't used Siri, but from what I gather, it's lightyears beyond the old voice control.
Hmm. I didn't think about disabling Siri. I was driving so I wouldn't have done it anyway, but now that you mention it, I'm sure that would have worked.
If you disable Siri, the phone defaults to normal voice control, the same vc that has been in our iPhones for years.
ok thanks, that's what I wanted to know. Even thou it's useless to me since it never recognizes anything I say.
I wish Siri would automatically deactivate itself and default to Voice Control when the data connection is dropped. Now that would be AI-like and it would solve the problem with no iPod controls in remote areas. Or at least let us use a voice command to deactivate Siri and fall back to Voice Control.
Yeah, but that's not a hands-free option while driving. You have to go into settings to do it after you lose your signal.
