With Apple constantly working on improving the intelligence level of Siri, it seems the virtual assistant has yet to learn to answer some basic questions. The company recently announced the delayed roll-out of a "more personalised version" of Siri, which was exhibited at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) last year. The update will be shipped in 2026, though the exact date is not confirmed.
While the new Siri is tipped to compete with popular AI tools like ChatGPT or Google Gemini, an iPhone user raised questions over its capability in a recent Reddit post.
He asked the virtual assistant a simple question– “What month is it?”, to which it replied, “Sorry, I don't understand.”
“Apple intelligence this, Apple intelligence that. Siri is still just awful,” the Redditor wrote.
After Daring Fireball's John Gruber came across the post, he presented the query on his Apple device and reported the same issue.
To make the question simpler for Siri, another user asked – "What month is it currently?" In response, Siri answered, "It is 2025," which was surely not quite precise.
Many other people also expressed their discontent over Siri in the Reddit thread. One of them claimed that he had difficulty in using the virtual assistant to play podcasts.
“I ask Siri to play a podcast and she says, ‘I'm trying to play from Apple Podcasts but it doesn't look like you have it installed'. I didn't even know who could delete that app. I certainly haven't,” he said.
Another Redditor shared, “I asked Siri last night to set a reminder for 3:50, so naturally she set it for 10:00.”
"The reminders have never once worked for me," added another. An Apple user asserted, "I use Siri as a cooking timer. I don't trust her to do anything more complicated."
When Siri was introduced in 2011, Apple claimed that the assistant would offer seamless, natural interaction between users and their devices. It said the assistant would let users talk to their devices while analysing personal data from text messages, emails, images and videos.
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