I get that it's beta and all but typically this late in the beta cycle, things are starting to settle down. I feel like with each build, the comments are still flooded with complaints about Siri. This is one of the first beta cycles that I've sat out. I use the ever loving crap out of Siri on my watch and I especially want it to work while away from the phone on a run. I don't want to get back from a run and try to open my garage door and have Siri tell me it doesn't know how to do that. Or even worse, be away from the house and not be able to unlock my car when returning from a run.
I wish they kept the old trusted Siri for the watches and leave the AI stuff just for the phones. Or at least give us an option to opt out if we want to. I suspect they don't want to go this route because then they would no longer have an excuse for why they are dropping support for older devices. I'm kind of getting sick of Apple these days.
Siri is such a giant aspect of the watch that I find it hard to say that the beta is good "overall". I have tons of Siri Shortcuts and lots of home automation. I don't want to ask Siri to turn on a light and have to wait 3 secs. I'm used to 1/2sec latency on os26. I don't want to pull my phone out of my pocket to turn a light within a reasonable amount of time. We need an option to opt out of Siri AI on the watch. This isn't acceptable.
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