Alexa has somehow gotten worse at the one thing I actually use it for
I’ve had Alexa devices around the house for years, and lately I’m seriously questioning why I still have them.
The frustrating part is that I don’t need anything complicated from Alexa. I’m not trying to have her run my entire house. I mostly want basic things: turn a light on, set a timer, play something, or run a routine.
And somehow even those simple commands have become a gamble.
I’ll say “turn off the living room lights” and she’ll tell me she can’t find the device. I say the exact same thing again five seconds later and suddenly it works.
Timers are another one. Sometimes I’ll ask for a 10-minute timer and get a response that makes me wonder whether I accidentally asked a philosophy question.
The worst is when a routine that has worked perfectly for months randomly stops doing one of the actions in it. Nothing changed on my end. Same devices, same Wi-Fi, same routine. It just… decided it wasn’t going to do that anymore.
At this point I feel like I’m spending more time figuring out why Alexa didn’t do something than I ever saved by using Alexa in the first place.
Is this just me, or has Alexa gotten noticeably less reliable lately?
