Mary, You are not alone. There are times when Siri gets in a right mess! At these times, I find he asks the most inappropriate questions, and then once the me to do all sorts of things…
I agree with you that Apple haven't done a very good job of getting this to work well. Dictation works much better for me than using Siri and asking for something to be done. Carol P Sent from my iPhone using MBraille On 30 Nov 2015, at 5:05 p.m., Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: This whole business about Siri and asking questions and whether or not it looks into your contacts is so strange. I find that recently, Siri has been making phone calls to my contacts without asking for confirmation. On the other hand, if I ask Siri for a phone number which I know is in my contacts, more often than not, it says I found such and such place is this what you want? And it is been a search of the web that turned that place up. And in some cases, it is the wrong place, not the one in my contacts, but another one in town. It makes no sense. This is another area where Apple had a good thing and has not developed it. Google eats apples lunch,, as you say in this area. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 29, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Cristóbal <crismuno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Even though I’m a big time Apple fanboy, I will readily admit that Google's > OK google feature eats Siri's lunch and probably has done so for a while now. > I don't even bother asking Siri to initiate a call to any of my contacts as I > find the process to be tedious and prolonged. > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Alex Stone > Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 1:15 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone > > I find that Siri almost always asks me to confirm the person I want to > call, even if it's my wife for instance, and Siri knows she's my wife so > I have no idea why. > >> On 29/11/2015 21:12, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: >> I find this quite interesting since for a while SIRI did the same thing for >> our local taxi company even though I have them in my contacts as well. Then >> for a while it called them again just fine using my contact and now again it >> goes back to looking it up online. Also, right now SIRI is often asking me >> again if the person I told SIRI to call was the one I wanted to call and I >> have to confirm first. It seems SIRI is rather inconsistent at time or maybe >> Appleis just fooling around with different settings and ways for SIRI to do >> things. I think that SIRI should always first check ones contacts and use >> that. I also had it where I asked SIRI to call "BV Taxi" our local taxi >> company, and it said "I don't have a number for BV Taxi". When I told SIRI >> to "Show me BV Taxi" it showed me the contacts entry with phone number and I >> know for sure that a number is there in the proper dialing format. Don't >> think there is anything much y ou can do about it except maybe give feedback >> to Apple and suggest they should just get their act together and make SIRI >> work a bit better. >> >> Regards, >> Sieghard >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of Barry Abbott >> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 8:52 AM >> To: 'Adrian Leong' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Subject: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone >> >> Wondering if anyone has a solution >> >> Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi" >> Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you >> want?" >> >> I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When calling from >> my Apple watch under friends it does what I ask >> >> I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being >> useful when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your contacts >> Is there any way to change it so that it works like it did under iOS 7. >> I find it most inefficient. 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