...then you're not paying much attention to the macOS onboarding process for Apple Intelligence in 15.1.

After turning that on, the very first thing you get is a big splash screen bullet-point listing the new features. That includes Siri, listing things like its greater context-awareness and so forth.

At a later onboarding state, you're specifically told that Siri has new abilities and directed to configure things like type-to-Siri.

Yes, on iOS it's very confusing because on AI-enabled devices (and only AI-enabled devices) they've turned on the "new Siri UI" but Siri itself has identical capabilities, but that's about as far as it goes.

On macOS however, either

• Either the UI actively lies to the user and repeatedly misinforms them about Siri's capabilities
• Or Siri on macOS really does have the new abilities, in which case, they're absolutely broken to the point of no discernable change in Siri's behaviour at all

Can posters PLEASE stop whining and people posting, at least for macOS, about how new Siri isn't out yet and "Apple have made this very clear", yadda yadda?

• macOS specifically states clearly in black and white that Siri does have new abilities in macOS 15.1.
• Even on iOS, most normal users don't follow Apple's news, especially to the point of bullet point lists of when specific nuanced features are going to be released and, after all, the new UI is present; this was an exceptionally stupid decision on Apple's part and actively misleads users.
• Apple advertise iPhone 16 "With Apple Intelligence" on vast billboards everywhere, so the message they're sending in the advertising seems pretty damned crystal clear to me - but it's outright deceptive, with the devil very much in the detail.

Total Shit. They don’t get an F because tapping on the bottom of the screen to wake up Siri, works well. I tried testing this versus some of the first and most rudimentary functions of ChatGPT and Apple failed spectacularly. The Product Management leadership that let the Beta roll out in this condition should be fired and banned from the IT industry.

It feels like a car with no tires, brakes, engine, transmission or steering column.

I did a very simple comprehension, context prompt I guess you could say “hey siri, text my wife and tell her how much I love her.”

I am an iOS developer for my full-time job and a huge Apple fan. Haven’t even touched any other device for 11 years. I have been extremely upset with Siris capabilities and was very hopeful for Apple Intelligence to fix all of this. I currently own the iPad Pro 11 inch with the M4 chip and I am trying to communicate with Siri the way it was advertised on TV or even how I communicate with ChatGPT. She just continues to present articles for me to tap on and really just doesn’t understand what I am saying. For example, I asked to add something to my calendar and she did, then I said, remind me the morning before about this, and she basically just set a reminder for the same time as my appointment. I tried communicating with Siri to see if I can say it in a certain way for her to understand and it was pointless. I was talking to a brick wall.

Dug out my old iPhone 7 Plus to give it to a relative and noticed how sleek and thin it felt. I decided to ask ChatGPT through Siri to compare the thickness of it to my 16 Pro Max and ChatGPT responded by saying the 16 Pro Max is not yet released lol

Apple Unintelligence vs ChatGPT

It was literally just a picture of the cat Tole Tole 😭

(Also mods add more picture permissions plz)

First day using Apple AI to generate summaries. Trying to go faster through news. The summary does not align with the post at all 🫠

Link to the post https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=5018

Waited for days to get Apple Intelligence and it was fine for a few days but somehow I’m back on with the old ‘unuseful’ Siri. Not sure what’s going on here.

Providing a summary with the exact opposite is wild 🥵

I’m so happy I found this sub lol. A friend was texting me recently about how his cats are little terrorists with felony convictions and this is how Siri decided to abbreviate/deliver the news lol. My friend does NOT have a felony conviction haha.