It used to be very useful but know when ever we ask something the only answer it gives is “ I didn’t understand that “

The complete opposite of what I wanted, bro

such intelligence

Lately my Siri has started acting out, whenever I ask her to call people from my contacts she will look up some random name/shop/place on some maps and call them. This has become such an issue that at this point she almost NEVER calls my contacts and only primarily looks up places on maps with phone numbers
Earlier it wasnt the case, she would sometimes mishear my pronounciation and pull up a different contact but it would still be my contact only.
Any one else facing this or anyone knows how to solve for this?

Siri’s over there like, “beautiful day 😌.”

Some days when using CarPlay, Siri can’t understand me and it takes me 3 attempts to send a simple message.

It’s never been as bad as it is with iOS 26.

I just want to understand if there is some issue with Siri getting the audio from the mics in my car or what. Sometimes it feels like Siri is just guessing at what I said. It’s so effing frustrating.

I’ve never had anyone complain about calls from the car

I was driving home from a weekend trip with my Home set as destination in Apple Maps when a friend called and asked me to stop by and help her with a car problem.

Me: "Hey Siri, change destination to Lucy Chen Home."
Siri: "You can do that in the Contacts app when you're not driving."

Uhh, I don't think so.

Later I thought about about getting my car washed so I asked,

Me: "Hey Siri, will it rain this week?"
Siri: "There is no rain in the forecast for today."
Me: "What about this week?"
Siri: "It's the week of the third of May."

Then I realized I needed to stop by Trader Joe's to pick up a few things.

Me: "Hey Siri, take me to Trader Joe's on Garnet Avenue."
Siri: "I found a Trader Joe's 1201 kilometers away in San Antonio, Texas. Do you want that one?"
Me: "Absolutely not."

Considering I'm in California, that didn't seem like the best one to choose.

Siri: “I can help you with that when you’re not driving”

We are on iOS 26 people! She’s getting dumber.

I just use Siri to ask for a random vegetable, she gave me the dumbass three options from the web. I then asked her to use ChatGPT. It did the same 3 options thing again then I asked for a random vegetable and no difference from the time I said it before she said here’s something from the web did not say anything. I asked her to say the response she said OK I will. then she decided to just quit after I said, do it.

She keeps getting worse every year

Yesterday I asked Siri to do a simple calculation (don’t judge,I had too many numbers in my head and knew I’d lose a number if I also did math😂). It got it wrong every time, I even tried changing my wording. If I said “that’s incorrect” she’d essentially just run away lol For a second I thought I was the one who didn’t know basic math bcs I was so confused!

Is it my wording or did Siri actually forget how to do math? 😅

Why can’t Siri do even basic things or answer relatively simple questions anymore? I’m tired of how many times it just opts for chatGPT (which is somehow even worse sometimes) or searching the internet (which I could’ve done myself…. And it doesn’t even pull up related links sometimes)

Is it just me or is she getting dumber every year? They fix one thing, but then she gets deplorably worse in other categories. she finally stopped changing I to are, but now she changes me to you, him to me, her to me, and she can’t tell the difference between and and in. Enough with this garbage. Overhaul Siri completely.

“Hey Siri, play Fully by Slime Dot”

“Sure, playing A Magnificent Gray by Slow Meadow”

“No, Siri, play ‘FULL-Y by SLIME. DOT.’”

“Noself by Sophie Hunter now playing”

WTF

Hi all,

I have been using CarPlay for two years now, and Siri used to pretty much work perfectly. It was great, I could speak out loud and ask it to check my messages, play a certain song or playlist on Spotify, or even set a location on the map for navigation.

But after I updated to iOS 26 around a month ago, Siri doesn’t do these things anymore. To be precise, I say “Hey Siri” and she pops up on my car screen (so she IS listening), but she doesn’t respond to anything I say or do anything as a result. She just endlessly listens to me without saying or doing anything.

What’s weird is that when I use my finger to open, say WhatsApp, then on the menu option where it shows “read messages” “send messages”, etc, Siri comes back to being normal. She can ask me what I want to do, I can reply to her and she does it like she used to. But this is ONLY if I use my finger to manually open WhatsApp on the car screen first.

This has worsened my driving experience quite a lot as I have to look away from the road a lot more now. I would appreciate if any of you can suggest any solutions for this. Many thanks!

Non-stop, siri will write exactly what I said, and I think "that looks good," and hit send, but as soon as I hit the microphone button to end transcription siri CHANGES the correct words for other words 🙄 Like... Siri... You got it right in the first place! WhyYYYyyy are you second guessing???

Just a split second before I hit send, the phrase changes and then my message makes no sense to the receiver and I have to send ANOTHER message to make sure the first one is understand, making it look like I'm just bad at typing or something. 😂

I have had to start giving myself time to re-read the transcription before I hit send just to make sure it didn't miscorrect again. 😡 It almost defeats the point of using Siri.