bluetooth and siri

I have tested it with two bluetooth devices that work well with voice control and siri doesnt' work with either device. I mean, it doesn't work at all: turn it on, speak, no response. So I have to remember to turn siri off before I drive away and on again when I am done driving. not brilliant!

Yes, I am having a lot of issues with Siri and my Bluetooth system that is built into my truck. I have a 2009 Chevy Silverado which came with Bluetooth. When I activate Siri, either by pressing and holding the home button or from the button on my steering wheel the radio silences and the car microphone and speaker are activated. This would be great if it worked. However, first, Siri does not understand half of the commands over Bluetooth. Maybe due to background noise. Second, when Siri asks for confirmation (for example if I ask to send a text message it will read the

Message back to you and ask "do you want me to send this?). When this happens the Bluetooth connection is terminated and completely cancels out your commands to Siri. I have found Siri to be completely useless in my car. My only option is to turn off my Bluetooth which would completely eliminate the whole purpose of having hands free in my truck. One of two things need to happen. First, and this is the ideal solution, the Bluetooth connection needs to remain active the entire time the Siri application is open. So if Siri asks for confirmation the connection isn't severed. The other possible solution would be to have an option in the Siri settings for "Siri Over Bluetooth". This would allow you to disable Siri over Bluetooth so that if you press and hold the home button you are still using the iPhone's microphone and speaker but you keep the Bluetooth connection. Therefore, if you receive a call you could still answer it over the car Bluetooth system. Hope apple adds this soon because the whole purpose of Siri is safety while driving and right now I can't use Siri in my vehicle. Anyone else experiencing this??

I would like to see a solution to this as well. Siri is the perfect thing for your car but now it dosent work in my car. Apple please get us a bluetooth toggle button for siri or make Siri not able to report to bluetooth. PLEASE

I too have the above problems. I too am using parott car kit, I upgraded my parott car kit firmware to latest but same issue. I've opened this on parotts forum http://forum.parrot.com/english/viewtopic.php?id=10187

Is everyone using parott or other car kits to??

I have the same issue. I was so mad yesterday, after calling Apple Care and getting someone that didn't even understand what I was talking about, that I went and returned my iPhone. Got a Samsung Galaxy S2 and HATED it. Went right back and got my little iPhone back! Figured I'd have to either disable my bluetooth in my vehicle or not use Siri or Speak to Text in my vehicle. Glad to see others having the same issue.

I have a 2011 GMC Terrain with a very high tech bluetooth system. Now that I realize Siri is meant to work through bluetooth, it would be a nice feature if it REALLY worked. Too much interference, the emails, texts, commands, etc. turn out to be a joke. If I turn bluetooth off, then Siri and Speak to Text works great. But, I want my bluetooth for a safety feature.

I'd like to see an option of disabling Siri and Speak to Text going to bluetooth. HELP, APPLE!!!

Does this mean Siri doesn't work at all if I turn it off? I would like to use Siri and Speak to Text in my car, but not have it go through my bluetooth (unless it works and not come back with crazy things).

I had two choices. Turn off Bluetooth and use Siri or turn Siri off while I'm driving. I decided to go for the safe option...turn Siri off while driving and no texting. I figure having Siri not work with Bluetooth turns out to be a safety feature for me...lol!

yes, i was so excited to use siri with my blue tooth for real hands free but siri does not understand much of anything i tell her. even if i am just asking her to call someone for me. I do not have a car system just regular blue tooth and if i turn it off, she gets me a little bit better. i don't know if the blue tooth just interferes or what. as i understand with my blue tooth, when i say phone commands to it, i am then speaking to the phone but the blue tooth is still active. i try to speak slowly and directly into the phones speaker but she just does not understand me. Apple, isn't there anything you can do?

I now have tested the 4S with Siri with 4 bluetoothdevices: a 2009 Prius, a Jabra Cruiser, a Dual XHD7714 in dash Bluetooth compatible car radio, and blue-link BTM-318 radio/Bluetooth headset. Contraryto my first experience all of the devices worked OK . Except for the BTM-318, with which Siri does not recognize when the spoken input is complete (ie, silence). I have to take the phone out of my pocket and press the mike button, which kind of defeats the purpose.

But in all cases Voice control was faster and significantly more reliable than Siri at recognizing contacts in my address book. Most of my original problems were due to testing in my garage which is in a no-man’s zonebetween the house wifi and the 3G network. I have noticed that web access was unreliable in this zone with my old 3GS and it’s the same with the 4S. Even with one or two bars on the wifi, the phone keeps trying to use the wifi, rather than switching to the more reliable 3G signal. The result is usually a failure to connect. So the bluetooth had nothing to do with my original problems (except for the BTM-318).

I have to agree with the other commenters that Siri should switch to Voice Control when the web is unavailable or too slow. Handsfree dialing is the essential voice function in my opinion and Voice control did a better job than Siri with the contact list. Kind of a quandry for me since the other functions of Siri are so cool and useful.

I am having a similar problem on my Toyota Prius. The phone works fine for BT calls, but when I use Siri to make a call via BT, she starts dialing the correct number, and then I get a message that the call has been disconnected. I also cannot use my IPhone to play music via Bluetooth with the Nav system. It works when connected via USB, but the Bluetooth selection is grayed out on the Nav display for music even though it IS connected via Bluetooth for the phone.

Yep, this is a joke. The only time I want to use Siri for anything serious is in my car and the stupid thing wants to connect to BlueTooth all the time. I tried calling someone tonight and it kept calling the wrong person. As soon as I disabled bluetooth it worked perfectly but then I lost the point of having hands free bluetooth in my car.

Apple, fix this in the next update!

yeah, siri ***** in the car. what really stinks is that the iphone voice commands worked flawlessly in my volvo before i got a 4s and activated siri. The voice commands understood me 100% of the time. Siri hasn't gotten one thing right in over 2 weeks of trying.

What's up with that?

I came across this in a forum on Parrot's site. I can't test it as I don't have the system but hopefully it helps.

"i figured out that if you activate the siri from the phone then it works like a champ, you can talk to siri for as long as needed, but you can "end" siri conversation with the parrot's end"red" button. i hope that they come out with a parrot update that makes the siri work with the "green button" this would make the combination awesome for people who work out of there car and need to take notes and things"

http://forum.parrot.com/usa/viewtopic.php?id=14954

I have the same problem. Every time I try to use Siri hands-free in the car to make a call, she asks if I want to call a totally different person in my contact list. Several times I've found myself actually getting into a yelling match with her because she keeps saying a name, and I say No! and then she tries to call someone totally different that I really don't want to talk to and I have to manually disconnect the call. Not safe at all while driving! So I just disconnect Siri in the car.

Then this evening I tried to use Siri to make a call at home using Bluetooth, where it was totally quiet. I kept getting the response "I don't understand you" when I asked to have the person called, so I gave up. Without using it hands-free there's very little use for Siri, as I can manually look up what I want on Yelp or Google and can certainly dial my own phone or at least use Voice Control. The biggest draw of the 4s is a waste to me. However, the camera is amazing, much better than my 3Gs so I'm happy. I just feel like when I hear all the raves about Siri that I want to go out and get that phone till I remember, oh, yeah, I have it, it just doesn't work.. 😟

I'm also having Siri issues over my in-car Bluetooth. In my 2012 Subaru Impreza the Bluetooth works great for music and calls, but Siri struggles to understand me with commands that it picks up perfectly using the iPhone's microphone.

An option to turn off Bluetooth just for Siri would be a simple and effective solution!