Setting alarms is one of the few tasks I can rely on Siri to handle correctly, so I haven’t used the app in years.

I'm a bit confused by your comment. Are you saying OP is holding the phone wrong? Offering an alternative solution? Just making a comment about how it isn't an issue for you?

	▲	macintux 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		It was both a suggestion for an alternative mechanism that might prove less frustrating and a gripe that Siri is still, after so many years, mostly incapable of being a useful assistant.

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_kyran 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Not sure if it still exists, but a few years ago there was a bug that if an alarm was created using Siri, it wouldn’t make a noise at the set time. It would show as a switched on in the clock app, but wouldn’t actually do the one thing it was meant to do.

	▲	kyleee 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		That’s part of the fun of Siri - it will be a surprise!