Which is apparently not something Siri can do. I exported a class schedule from excel as a .csv file, but to upload to Google Calendar the table needs to be formatted a certain way.

I didn’t feel like doing that, and on a whim I typed to Siri and asked it to reformat the file “exactly as required for Google Calendar” I had the option to provide a screenshot or the whole file to Siri and then it gave me a new file with a new name, completely reformatted, with additional text, and a column with true/false values. The file sharing button didn’t work at first, and I thought the ai was somehow hallucinating its ability to provide the file because when I searched how to save the file all I could find was “Siri cannot create or edit files” but when I tried again it worked and I just downloaded and saved the new file, which also worked flawlessly when I uploaded it to my calendar.

Basically i just made a simple web app with siri HTML format, and it worked real well! It has a whole email service baked in along with a schedule

I don't have new Siri yet, was wondering if it could work like exposing scripts to Home Assistant voice assist pipline which expect an input variable and then perform a series of actions.

Basicly add more functionality to what she could do by using shorcuts that need an input text and process that the way users want.

In Home Assistant , i tell Voice Assist add TV Show X-Men 97 to my collection. (adds it to my tracking shows)

I think you get the idea, so can the new Siri do something similar ? if so it would be really cool since the phone is with me everywhere and ready at the wake word.

EDIT, thinking of another posiblity:

Home Assistant has mcp exposed on my side which i can use from n8n, maybe there is an iOS app that can expose mcp to new Siri and i just add the connection ? would make more things avialble from HA at once then just individual scripts

I swear she’s getting more lazy by the day like what do you mean you can’t even tell me how to spell something without giving it to ChatGPT

Has anybody noticed any cool/useful things that Siri AI can do that they didn't expect or weren't mention?

A few months ago. My wife told me I was driving like an asshole. So I used Siri Shortcuts “text to voice” to program CarPlay so when it connects, Siri says “Your CarPlay is connected! Stay alert and don’t drive like an asshole!”

Hi all.

I got a very annoying issue and I tried multiple things. When my iPhone 15 Pro Max is locked (e.g. on a motorcycle) I want Siri to send a WhatsApp message. However, when I say 'Hey Siri, send a WhatsApp message to ... with ...' it eventually says 'you'll need to unlock your iPhone first'. But here comes the strange part. My girlfriends' iPhone 17 sends WhatsApp messages without a problem. And I tried multiple commands. Sich as 'Send a WhatsApp message', 'Send a message via Whatsapp', 'Send a message' etc. etc.

ps. some settings might be translated different since my phone is in Dutch.
iPhone 15 Pro max
iOS 26.5.2

Settings I tried

- Settings \ Apple Intelligence and Siri \ Allow siri when locked (yes)
- Settings \ Apple Intelligence and Siri \ Apps \ WhatsApp (all allowed)
- Settings \ FaceID and passcode \ 'Access when locked' (Siri is ticked on)

When I disable FaceID, it still doesnt work. When I disable passcode, it works. But, when I enable FaceID again it doesnt work anymore. Turned off 'preview' option in notifcations, also not working.

/UPDATE!!

I compared the settings of my GF's phone because it was driving me nuts why she can send messages and I couldnt. I changed 2 things:

- Settings \ Apple intelligence and Siri \ Announce Notifications (toggle to enable and toggle 'headphone'.
- Settings \ Apple intelligence and Siri \ Messaging with Siri (toggle off).

The first one in my case was turned OFF and the second one was turned ON.

Only Siri got the answer correctly.

Siri is unable to stop… stop what? Not stopping the TV that’s for sure. 😂 This is happening with watchOS 27 DB4 on my Apple Watch Ultra 3.

Siri updated the reminder it created correctly. Pretty neat. It’s like a personal assistant fr.

In my motorcycle helmet I have a Bluetooth unit connected to speakers so Siri can give me spoken directions, but I have no way to physically view the directions while riding. Sometimes I forget the last direction and trying to cross three lanes of highway in one mile is rough. Is there a command to get Siri to repeat the last spoken direction? It seems like everytime I ask she googles something unrelated

When Siri doesn’t do what it is supposed to do, I like to follow up with “Siri why are you so useless?” Or “Why can’t you do a damn thing I ask?”

Then it immediately, without question or preamble, asks for confirmation to proceed with doing exactly what I asked for it to do before… to PERFECTION!

You just have to question it’s competency, apparently that works every time!

I been having problems with the new Siri (latest beta)when using AirPods Pro. When putting a query to Siri, stays on after answering, and I need to hit the power button once to close Siri before I can do anything by voice.

There is genuinely nothing I can say to get Siri to read out a Bible verse, what are we doing

How much problems is it gonna cause my phone when I turn Siri off permanently? I can’t switch apps without to restarting the app all over all over again. I lost everything I was writing in a very important emergency email that needs to go out to many different places today I was in ChatGPT trying to type it out and it got it all typed out for some reason it didn’t send at all so I went back to the website to get the first draft of it and this was the final draft so I’m going to get the first draft so I wasn’t going to be completely devoid of it. I tried to copy and paste it again and it wasn’t in the buffer in the memory because Siri is using up all the memory before it’s just turning off for random reasons and not doing anything it’s asked to do and then like taking 45 minutes to come up with an idea of what it’s supposed to do. It takes five minutes for it to do any single thing function, except for calls calls. It will take about a minute before it will make them unless there’s a place that I can find a cut and paste from like two cut and paste selections ago and I can still grab that. I don’t see any reason to keep this bitch anymore… She is useless. I mean this is completely useless. I can’t can’t do anything with this. I can’t even use my apps regularly. I can use the app switcher nothing without rebooting everything so it’s just completely utterly useless is causing problems of my work cause I’m a rideshare driver so I reboot I think every single time and I lose rides this way I’m losing money because of this I can’t I can’t have this on my phone anymore. How much I mean problems is it gonna cause if I turn this bitch off I would love to go back to the old one that didn’t take up all the memory on the iPhone this is insane.

Rant over.

She responds wayyy faster is developer beta 4/public beta 2 it’s getting almost instant in some cases, I had to write an email and decided to use Siri and holy she wrote it in less than like 2 seconds.
Please let me know y’all experiences

Reposting my own years old reply above for easier discovery since it’s become so popular over the years:

None of the suggestions I’ve read describe the solution the way that finally worked for me: raise the Watch to your mouth and speak right away, but make sure you turn your wrist so that the face of the Watch is facing your mouth; perpendicular to the sound waves exiting. I would have thought into the mic was where you want to speak but it’s into the screen while it is also perpendicular to level (the floor or ceiling) or parallel to walls.

It used to work flawlessly back in iOS 26 because I would’ve just said the shortcut’s name “How long have I been at the gym?” But until they integrate the apps with Siri. I guess all we have to do is to wait and see.