bluetooth and siri

Does Apple not read these???! I get so angry every time I'm driving, try to use Speak to Text or Siri...to be safer. But, by making it go through Bluetooth it just DOESN'T WORK!!! It's a joke the kind of things Siri repeats back to me, or Speak to Text comes up with! Other issue, i cant properly use an ipod or music feature on my phone in my 2011 GMC Terrain that has the latest sound system. Once plugged in, i have to unplug to change my music selection. That's crazy! I shouldn't have to treat this like an older model vehicle and spend money having an adaptor installed. iPod and my iPhone 4s SHOULD work with the new fully equipped sound systems!!! Apple is so far behind technology!!! My husband and I are so disgusted with our first iPhone, when our next upgrade comes, we are going back to an Android!

The real problem here is that the 4S has excellent noise reduction technology at work on its microphone, which is how Siri can understand you so well even in louder places. The iPhone 4 does not have that technology, which is why Siri isn't compatible with that phone nor any before it.

My car's bluetooth microphone, by comparison, is terrible. That's why Siri can't understand me very well. I did a test, and with bluetooth off and the phone in my cupholder a good distance away, Siri could understand me better than she did when bluetooth was on and I was speaking directly into the bluetooth microphone.

Unfortunately that puts us in a bad place. I have 3 options as it stands: (1) use the phone on Bluetooth and have Siri be half-useless, (2) use the phone without Siri at all, (3) plug the phone into my audio system via headphone jack and take calls on speaker, which makes it hard to hear the other party (though they can hear me fine because again the 4S has a great microphone). Taking calls NOT on speaker with this last setup results in the other party being able to hear themselves as though in an echo chamber.

What's the fix? Add a Siri Settings toggle: "Use iPhone Microphone for Siri" that I can turn on or off. That way calls go through bluetooth, and when Siri speaks I hear it through my stereo, and Siri still mutes my stereo when I want to talk to her... but Siri only listens through the iPhone's superior microhone.

That makes sense about the noise reduction technology. I find that Siri understands my commands better when I am not in my car compared to when I am in my car. Although, I find that she works about 75% of the time in my car so I am not disappointed. I have a 2012 Subaru Impreza and I love how the iPhone 4S works over bluetooth with my car, I am just looking for advice to make it totally hands free. The only problem I have activating Siri is that I have to reach down and press the home button to activate Siri. I wish one of the buttons on my steering wheel could activate Siri. I think Siri works fine for commands like "Call Theresa" or "Play music by Metallica", but I noticed she doesn't understand some pronunciation like "Gotye". She usually understands if I spell it out for her "Play music by G O T Y E".

This isn't about Siri, but I'm glad to hear that the iPhone 4S works well with the 2012 Subaru Impreza, as I'm about to purchase one. I haven't been able to find a dealer though, that can give me information about the iPhone and how it works with the audio system. Which radio are you using? I read that the Impreza Limited has the HD radio, and (I think) a different radio if you want Navigation, and the Premium Impreza doesn't offer the HDRadio. How is the sound? Did you get the upgraded speakers or Tweeter?

I'm also wondering if the radio allows Internet Streaming, which it would have to do in order to use iTunes Match. I've driven a couple of rental cars that only allowed you to attach an iPhone via USB and then only played what was on the phone, and could not see the library which has many songs in the Cloud. The radio in my current vehicle allows you to detach the iPhone from the system while still listening to audio through the speakers. So I can use iTunes Match, as well as Spotify or Pandora and still have the iPhone plugged in through the USB port and charging. I asked the dealer that gave me a test drive about it, and he said his idea of a phone was "something that sits on s little table in the foyer".. Not much help there!

Any thoughts on how it works and advice on audio selection would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I have issues using Siri with bluetooth as well (Toyota Tacoma). She ususally doesn't understand what I'm saying and response is very slow. In addition, the voice guidance in the Mapquest app does not work when Bluetooth is turned on, turn off bluetooth and it works fine. So for now, I have bluetooth turned off. It's very dissapointing as I liked that music would play through it as well. The ability to seperate Siri from bluetooth is needed.

Update to my previous post. So I unpair the phone and pair the audio player only. Siri works fine and I think I'm all set. I try to get directions to somewhre and maps can't connect to the internet. I shut off bluetooth in the phone and maps works fine. It's inconcievable to me that this stuff doesn't work properly as bluetooth has been avaialable in cars and phones for several years now. Apple please fix!!

And now that button exists in iOS6... but doesn't work very well. If I'm listening to music through bluetooth, then Siri wants to use bluetooth, she doesn't remember that I chose to turn off bluetooth last time I used her. And then bluetooth keeps turning back on midway through talking to Siri. A great opportunity squandered!

Hi Everyone,

I just got a brand new iPhone 4s given to me at work.

It paired up very easily and quickly to my Centrios Blue tooth speaker phone and my wife's Jabra Cruise speaker phone. The problem I'm having is similar to those of others. Siri does not understand me if I use a bluetooth speaker. If I speak directly into the microphone, it's great and soo acurate.

Is there anyone out there that has answers as to how to improve the accuracy?

I'm running:

ios 6.4(10A403)

Model MD234C

Modem Firmware: 3.0.04

thats cz iphone uses some kind of beaming with its 3 microphonesto understand the voice. So when you use an accessory, it doesnt use phone's microphone. so it doesnt understand. (im not 100 % sure though)

I've copped the same as everyone else here it seems, I have a Dension car dock for iPhone in my car which reckons it could work with Siri, now I can activate Siri and he speaks to me over the radio (which is how I listen to everything on the phone) but Siri can't seem to understand what I am trying to say, but if I'm on the phone with someone they understand me perfectly. Now if the iPhone could connect to two Bluetooth devices at once I would simply use a hands free mic (like a blue ant mic or something like that) but it can't seem to accept two connections either. The only real benefit I can see in Siri is for use while driving so if Apple want to create a truly spectacular product then they should address this issue, maybe make a car kit for the iPhone that Siri does work with or else have a list of supported car kits which people can purchase knowing Siri will work.

My old samsung galaxy s1 had an assistant called vlingo which worked so much better than Siri, including what they called word monitoring which meant I would simply say "hey computer" (something that could be changed by the user) and the assistant would interact with you, no need to press a button at all... Now this is something that would be a MASSIVE benefit as far as I am concerned.

My situation is as follows:

*First off, this is based on my own experience to date using my iPhone 5 in my car (Lexus LS460).

*BT music streaming from iPhone 5 to my car's audio system works fine.

*I can make calls via BT in the car as long as I manually dial it on the phone.

*Can make calls via BT if I use the car's voice command system as well.

*Everything seems to work through the BT interface, EXCEPT, I can no longer use Siri to dial phone calls. It automatically "disconnects" the instant that it tries to initiate the call. Used to love this feature as it provided a truly hands free solution. Also, in my opinion, Siri provides a superior voice recognition system.

For the record, I'm using IOS 7.0.6, latest available, to my knowledge. We also tried my wife's iPhone 5 (same software) to no avail...same results.

REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO A QUICK RESOLUTION FROM APPLE. THIS APPEARS TO BE AN EASY COMPATIBILITY ISSUE.

Problem with 2007 LexusES350. I turned off Siri and had the same problem with direct voice dialing via pushing the button. I have done the deleting on both phone and vehicle- same problem. No issues till IOS 8. (8.02). After hours of obsessively trying to fix, I did notice a few issues:

1) on occasion, the phone takes over the entire navigation system screen which the Bluetooth is combined with and I have to manually hang up.

2) On occasion the phone interface on the car show the Bluetooth the connection with 3 bars, but say "out of range".

Last oddity- late yesterday night after deleting all Bluetooth devices from the phone and vehicle Bluetooth registration profile, I did make several successful calls through Siri. This morning back to the same problem. Call terminated by network.

I hope this bug will be recognized and addressed by Apple quickly. I can connect with a a ten year old Motorola but not with my iPhone 6 Plus. BTW I tried this with an updated 5S as well as an iPhone 6 and they all have the same problem -So the problem isn't the individual phone or vehicle.

I have a 2009 Toyota highlander. I just upgraded from the iPhone 4 to the 6. I have just discovered these problems myself and after reading these posts, it doesn't look like there is a solution to this problem yet. Does Apple read these comments?

I had the same frustrating thing happen tonight. I tried a few times and my blue tooth thinks im making an outbound call.. Aaargh!

I am also experiencing the same issue with Siri and my Parrot Bluetooth car kit. It's very annoying, does anyone have a recommended solution or do will just have to put up with it?