Welcome to our hebdomadal Apple Breakfast column , which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a ready to hand bite - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we believe it goes great with a Monday morning cup of coffee or tea , but it ’s nerveless if you require to give it a read during lunch or dinner minute too .
Ask a Siri question
It ’s been a few workweek now since the exhilaration of theWWDC 2023keynote presentation , and the triumph and letdown have had a chance to settle in . There was plentifulness of the former , but several of the latter , and the one that continue to sting – peculiarly when I have an peculiarly bad hebdomad with the feature film in doubt – is the lack of reassurance about Siri .
Apple is surely cognisant that Siri is bad , and that it needs to be improved . But looking back through our insurance coverage of WWDC , an event that ’s all about software , I can find only two mentions of the ailing vocalisation assistant . One is the intelligence that it will soon intelligently handle multiple commands in succession without having to be asked properly each time ; this is a welcome if belated addition , coming years after Alexa and Google Assistant benefit the same capability . And the other relates to itlosing one wordfrom its trigger musical phrase , which strikes me as disastrous . As it stand , Siri is always shrewish and bothering me when I do n’t want it to turn on , just because it ( wrong ) call up it ’s heard the words “ Hey Siri . ” When it ’s listening out for just “ Siri , ” my lifetime is going to be hell . Realistically , I ’ll probably have to plough off that feature of speech and access Siri with a button printing press as before . There ’s onward motion for you .
Neither of the degree mentions , you ’ll notice , made any book of facts to Siri ’s accuracy . Which is … singular .
What I wanted to hear from Apple this June was reassurance that it understands that Siri take workplace and that the company ’s people are on it . perchance it would be a lot to expect an admission of unsuccessful person on such a public microscope stage , but Federighi could have done one of his ego - deprecate gag , while slickly segueing into a ballyhoo job about the improvements coming down the pipe . I mean , what happened toOperation Bobcat , Craig ?
I do n’t realise why Siri is n’t Priority No . 1 at Apple Park right now . Because – and I must apologize to even readers for hark back to afavorite complainthere – the voice assistant merely is n’t fit for function , and its deficiencies infect my experience with intimately every Apple gadget I own . That include , as previously mentioned , the gadget ( such as the Apple Watch ) on which I very rarely expend Siri , because Siri wo n’t take a hint and pushes its way into my life anyway . But it ’s particularly infuriating on the ones where I rely on Siri , which is to say the HomePods in the living room and kitchen , and the iPhone , hooked up to CarPlay when selecting song on a thrust .
require for a song that shares a name with the album it ’s on , and Siri will take you mean the record album ( which surely the statistic would argue against ? ) and jubilantly lead off playing that rather . call for for a Song dynasty that ’s incredibly famous in the studio version , and Siri will inexplicably plump for an dark live recording with unclear vocals . Ask for a call you playall the freaking timebut this sentence say the name of the creative person slightly less clearly than Siri likes , and it will guess a same - named call by someone else who you ’ve never listened to in your life . As far as melodic choices go , Siri is like that wedding DJ who patiently mind to your nan ’s petition for Perry Como , then slams on the Andrew WK record he was going to play all along . It would be suspicious if it was n’t so pesky .
Remember when Appleapologized for Maps ? That was great ! Taking responsibility is cool . Resolving to improve thing is cool . Let ’s all take on that Siri is a dog ’s dinner , then we can get back to salivating over Vision Pro , and I can give up compose these article . Otherwise , the beatings will extend until esprit de corps improves .
Foundry
Thewidgets revolutionis coming tochange your screensforever .
iOS 17has a bunch of great feature film – thatno one will ever use .
Apple Vision Prowillreplace the Maclong before the iPhone .
Swiss yield growershave expressed concern as Apple seekstrademark rights to literal apples .
dependable Buy’sApple Watch Ultra Upgrade+ planoffers a peep atApple ’s hardware sub .
Apple haskilled off Apple Card financingforSIM - devoid iPhones .
The rumor mill
The iPhone 15 isgetting a U2 chipto prepare forVision Prointegration .
Sorry , iPhone SE lover . The new model probablywon’t arrive until 2025 … if at all .
AnFCC filingsuggests Apple is found anAirPods Max competitorfrom Beats .
Podcast of the week
Apple revealediOS 17at WWDC , and it calculate like it ’s more than a maintenance release . We talk about the features of iOS 17 that pick up our eye , in this episode of the Macworld Podcast .
you’re able to catch every episode of the Macworld Podcast onSpotify , Soundcloud , thePodcasts app , orour own site .
Software updates, bugs, and problems
If you ’re reading this on anApple gimmick , go update it right now .
NewMaps , Calendar , and search integrationsare come toChrome on iOS .
you’re able to nowhome - repairyouriPhone 14 and M2 MacBook .
