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SIRI IN IPHONE 4S ONLY WORKS WHEN I HAVE INTERNET CONNECTION. I WOULD I NEED AN INTERNET CONNCTION TO ASK SIRI TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT ON MY CALENDER 😟
iPhone 4S
buzzrt wrote:
Not very secure should anyone happened to pick up on. So remember out there you may have deleted all your emails from all boxes but if you say to Siri OLD EMAILS there they are for anyone to read. Scary.
Put a passcode on your phone.
To all whom it may concern,
Even my Lumia 800 windows phone can be told, using voice recognition, to call a particular person, without the requirement of an internet connection. The fact that this 'iPhone' cannot perform basic voice recognition in order to carry out a simple task is pathetic and annoying to say the least.
Schwatts wrote:
To all whom it may concern,
Even my Lumia 800 windows phone can be told, using voice recognition, to call a particular person, without the requirement of an internet connection. The fact that this 'iPhone' cannot perform basic voice recognition in order to carry out a simple task is pathetic and annoying to say the least.
Voice Control
Make phone calls and control music playback with Voice Control. (On iPhone 4s or later, you can also use Siri to control iPhone by voice. See Chapter 4, Siri, on page 40.)
Note:
Voice Control and Voice Control settings aren’t available when Siri is turned on.
Try reading the manual before using words such as "pathetic and annoying"...
This is still a frustrating issue. Schwatts should have said "will not" instead of "cannot". We know the phone is capable of performing these task, it is not a matter of server power for the simple commands. The "pathetic and annoying" part is that apple boast about how awesome Siri is and how it can do everything we need her to do. But when you're driving down the road and you want change songs or make a call but can't because Siri can't ask Apple what to do (yes, you can make calls even though you don't have a data connection).
Which now it turns into a safety issue. I know it is up to the driver to not use a phone while driving. But one of the selling points of buying a iPhone is the "remarkable" hands free function. Don't lead us to believe that we can depend on a feature only to have that feature only sometimes work. Now the driver is frustrated that their "amazing" phone isn't working as expected and they have to resist the temptation of unlocking the screen and then selecting the contact they need to call or changing songs. It doesn't matter what the user wanted to do, its the fact that Siri should have been able to do it with out server access. I'm not talking about locating a gas station or a 4 star restaurant but just basic commands that Voice Command can do.
How about this instead of Siri saying "sorry i can't do that right now, try again later" (which is sometimes fixed just by turning on/off airplane mode. which is another frustrating topic). Siri follows up with "would you like to use Voice Command?"
Ideally I would want the siri to just recognize the basic voice command controls (play music, call mom, etc) and automatically carry them out. No need to connect to a server to do. I understand asking "play New Kids on the Block" could/would require server assistance to understand what "new kids on the block" as opposed to just "play next song".
i didn't mean to reply only to tonefox, but I'm going to pull an apple and not bother to correct my mistake.
I like my iPhone but in 2016 a basic feature that the rivals Microsoft and Google recognize as just that (a basic feature) Apple still does not implement? They are no longer innovative... This will be RIM all over again.
Understood, if we're talking about anything that requires processing power.
But, Siri setting an alarm or reminder, is a feature that used to work without a connection, before a multitude of updates.
So, this was removed.
Siri, does not need power beyond the device to perform rudimentary functions on the device, Windows 98 can do this, offline - Apple is forever taking three steps back, two forward.
They no longer lead the way with anything, they just stumble alongside whilst making things pretty and appealing to ego, instead of revolutionising.
It's a shame.
Since (local) voice control is limited (in the ways others mentioned) then falling back to 'voice control' functions only would leave the user with the impression that Siri was also as limited.
Alternatively, apple could warn the user whenever this occurred, but that would likely risk leaving a bad impression in for the same reason that GPS systems no longer risk ever saying "recalculating..." any more.
The problem with Siri is that it was a novel idea that rapidly became the laughing stock of voice recognition. The other VR options learn from experience with you. Siri does not. I can enter a contact and I have to spell that person's name weird in MY contacts so Siri can understand me. The convenience of Siri is completely lost when you have to modify your phone/lifestyle to make it work.
I can't enter any contacts with the name 'Bryan' or Brian' because that's my name and Siri will dial ME when I say 'Call Bryan'. I have to enter those contacts with names that don't sound like mine (Brooma, Bruff and Brigo are the closest versions Siri won't think or me) and then I have to remember which Bryan/Brian got which nickname. Not very convenient.
Heck, even if I've got a business in my contact list, Siri will look for the business number on the internet. If my sales rep for that business (and their direct number) are entered into my contacts, Siri will still look up the number online (the general front desk number). I have to change the contact to NOT be a business or put in my rep's name just so I can dial the number directly to them. Even calling my own mother has to be done by her first name. Siri can't recognize 'Mom' or 'Mother' because we live in a town with businesses containing 'Mom' or 'Mother' in their titles. Not very convenient.
As a workaround, I was told to say Siri "dial [person/company] from my contact list". Know what I got when I tried that? I got Siri asking me if I wanted to call a Contacts & Eyeglass store here in town. Not really convenient to pull over while you're driving to manually dial someone because Siri insists on checking the internet for a number you already have in your contact list.
I think Siri was neat at first, but the 'features' they've added since it was first released have made it a really inconvenient product that markets itself as handy and convenient.
...and If you all think you've got it rough, try using Siri when you've got a southern accent! My co-worker from Georgia traded his 1-week-old iPhone for an Android because of Siri's inability to understand ANYTHING he was saying.
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You heard wrong. Siri is supported in iOS 6 on the iPhone 4S and the new iPad.
Because it relies on Apple's servers to do a lot of the processing.
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I do apologise for the foul language and I do understand now how it works but yet still, Siri should be able to operate without Internet. You know it's an issue and you just don't admit it.
So if Siri requires an internet connection because the iphone isnt able to do the processing itself, why isn't Siri available on the iphone 4 or 3Gs?
Because Siri requires the necessary hardware on both ends, not just the other side.
why does siri only work if i have internet connection?
