Mary, Thanks for your comment. I agree completely about Siri's rough edges and have also experienced the sane thing you described. Hopefully, we'll see improvements that are consistent soon.
Alan Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 22, 2016, at 3:44 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Alan, > I can't say I have seen this before, she will call a spoken phone number in > my experience. I have seen something related however, in that if I first ask > her to find a phone number for a business, which she does and then asked me > if I want to call it, and I said yes, she asked me who I want to call. Or I > should say he, since my Siri is a mail. Anyway, Siri definitely has some > rough edges that need to be fixed yesterday. > Mary > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 22, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Alan Lemly <wale...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi List, >> >> I often ask Siri to call contacts and seldom have any problems with this. >> However, I don't have any settings restricting incoming or outgoing calls >> just to contacts in case I want to provide the phone number on the fly. >> Today, I told Siri to call an 800 number of one of the free conferencing >> services and gave her the appropriate 10 digits to call. She immediately >> came back with a question of who I wanted her to call. I've never gotten >> this sort of response before and I ended up having to launch the keypad and >> manually typing in the 10 digit phone number. >> >> Has anyone else experienced such behavior from Siri? I'm running the latest >> iOS 10.0.2 on my iPhone 6 with Verizon and have never experienced this sort >> of inquisition before when giving Siri the phone number to call. I'm curious >> what sort of delay I'm going to have if I ever ask her to call 9 1 1 in an >> emergency. I won't have time to mess around with anything other than her >> dialing the number. >> >> I welcome any comments and if anyone has a workaround to avoid this hassle >> when giving Siri the number to call, I'd love to hear it. Thanks in advance. >> >> Alan Lemly >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - >> you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
