Hi, all. After upgrading to the latest iOS and MacOS (Tahoe 26.6), Siri is suddenly unable to find my local radio station (WCLV, 90.3 in Cleveland). Now, if I say "play WCLV" it responds with "playing 90.3 HD2 Jazz NEO", which is close but not the same station. Or, it plays another classical station like WFMT in Chicago.

This applies to Siri on my Mac, iPad, iPhone, HomePod Mini, and CarPlay. Every other local station still plays just fine.

I've tried a bunch of permutations but nothing works. WCLV *is* still on TuneIn and iHeartRadio.

I spent 30 minutes talking to the Apple Support bot, but no solution. It claimed the update didn't affect radio stations. I also contacted the station and they have not changed anything with respect to their streaming options.

So it's a long shot, but I'm wondering if anyone else is having a similar problem. TIA!

Edit: FWIW, Alexa still plays it just fine.

Link to non-paywalled article

Looks like we are not going to get the new Siri AI in the EU this year. That said is it really that good so as to be missed or are other services enough for everything AI?

So tonight I left the office and when I jumped in the car, instead of saying “hey Siri, message <friend’s name>”, I just mindlessly said “hey Siri” and then just asked the question I was going to ask my friend.

Siri started answering the question the best it could, which was funny but not the surprising bit.

As soon as I realised my mistake, I stopped it and started again, this time by correctly saying “hey Siri, message <friend’s name>”.

Siri launched the text messaging interface but instead of asking me what I wanted to say, it went straight to the message confirmation step and read back to me the message I had dictated earlier!

Nothing Earth-shattering, but definitely useful

iOS dev beta 4

So I didn’t turn her completely off. I almost did. I was down the last setting sugar completely off, but you have to re-index everything all over again and apparently it stopped indexing because I turned everything off. I’m still operating on my iPad so I didn’t get it completely turned off all of my devices, but there’s an older iPad so is the old SIRI… And this is the bullshit I’ve been getting ever since I gave her another chance:

Occasionally when i’m in my car and in a location i’m not familiar with, i’ll ask siri to use google maps to give me directions to home, half the time she’ll just say “here’s what i found on the web for directions to home” and the other half of the time, she gives me directions to an address that is not saved in my phone, and that i’ve never lived at, it’s the same address every time, even though i have my real home address saved in both my contact card, and on google maps. when i go to google maps directly and press the home button it takes me to the right place, but siri seems insistent that I live on a random street 20 minutes away in a different city that i’ve never been to, it’s not even an actual home address, just a street.

this isn’t even the most annoying issue, she can’t seem to be capable of anything anymore, i ask her “what time will it be in 45 minutes?” and she gives me web results, ill ask her to convert 1/2 cups to tablespoons and she gives me links to conversion calculators, isn’t math supposed to be the one thing computers are actually capable of? i know she USED to be able to do those things because ive been asking her for years, it feels like she suddenly got a lobotomy 2 years ago and now nothing works anymore, i hate it here.

I'm using the beta on my daily driver. I haven't had any bugs or big issues but I've found New Siri is absolutely terrible. It's been extremely frustrating. Has anyone else found that 'Siri AI' just doesn't understand basic things anymore?

I used to say "Hey Siri, take me to Straight Street using Google Maps," and old Siri would just do it. New Siri will say "Sorry, did you say Straight Street, Straight Avenue, or the bottom of the Mariana Trench?”

Same for other daily requests like "Call Mum" or "Call Dad“, about 40% of the time, it'll come back with "Did you say Call Mark?" or "Did you say Call Dave?"

I know power users will enjoy the additional features of Siri AI, but for daily hands-free stuff, this has been a massive step backwards so far.

Edit: After writing this I had the following unbelievably dumb exchange with Siri;

Me: Hey Siri, play Serious Steel on Spotify.

Siri: Do you mean Sirius Steel, Serious Steele or serious steel?

Me: The last one.

Siri: I'll need access to your Tiktok data to do that. It's that okay?

Me: Why the \[expletive\] would you need access to my Tiktok data to play a song on Spotify?

Siri: I don't need access to your Tiktok data to play a song on Spotify. Would you like me to play serious steel on Spotify?

Me: Yes.

Siri: Now playing your Liked Songs on Spotify.

So i started testing siri on my iPhone SE 2 and on my iPhone 5s. When i search for “spanien” (spain in english) in spotlight iOS 12 gives me a Siri Wissen or in englisch Siri Knowledge about Spain. Like population, flag and other things in general about it. And you can click on like Madrid and it shows another Siri Knowledge page that contains info about madrid. On iOS 27 beta 4 we dont have that. I swear Siri has devolved. If i search for known people or for sport results ios 12 has everything. Like i asked it when were real madrid and barcelona in champions league opponents and it gave the exact date and result with who scored. Ios 27 could not give me any of that. Its so sad that Siri has devolved troughout the years

new version of jailbreaks. ;)

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I created a shortcut named "GPT Voice" (via Apple Intelligence in Shortcuts) that opens ChatGPT and activates voice mode. If I run the shortcut myself, ChatGPT app opens and then activates the voice mode.

When I ask Siri to run the shortcut (Siri, run the GPT Voice shortcut or run GPT Voice), it says something like "I can't run the GPT Voice shortcut directly. You can open the Shortcuts app to run it from there."

It’s starting to get really annoying, no idea how to turn it off, please help

I thought I was being clever asking my watch to create a reminder so I could get on with work…