One of my favorite episodes:

I set 2 timers for the same thing somehow. I then tried to cancel one of them.

  >“Siri, cancel the second timer”
  “You have 2 timers running, would you like me to cancel one of them?”
  >“Yes”
  “Yes is an English rock band from the 70s…”
  >“Siri, please cancel the timer with 2 minutes and 10 seconds on it”
  “Would you like me to cancel the timer with 2 minutes and 8 seconds on it?”
  >“Yes”
  “Yes is an English rock band from the 70s…”

Eventually they both rang and she listened when I said stop.

▲ ted_dunning an hour ago | parent | next [-]

At that point I would be very impressed if you could remember what the timers are for.

▲ abroadwin 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My favorite is when I ask Siri to set a timer and get back "there are no timers running."

▲

Skidaddle 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My other favorite is when I ask Siri to set a timer on my watch and it does a web search.

	▲	sanswork 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My favourite is when I ask siri to stop the alarm(that is currently going off) and it decides to disable my morning wake up alarm but keep the current alarm going off.

▲

jazzyjackson 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

“Siri stop”

“There’s nothing to stop”

> me, suddenly aware of how the AI takeover will happen

▲ xp84 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Helping my kid get ready for shower I had this exchange:

Me: "Text Jane Would you mind dropping down the robe and underpants"

Siri: Sends Jane "Would you mind dropping down"

Me: rolls eyes "Text Jane robe and underpants"

Siri: "I don't see a Jane Robe in your contacts."

Me: wishes I could drown Siri in the bathtub

It's wild to me that Apple got the ability to do the actual speech-to-text part pretty much 100% solved more than half a decade ago, yet struggles in 2026 to turn streams of very simple, correctly-transcribed text into intents in ways that even a local model can figure out. Siri is good STT, a bunch of serviceable APIs that can control lots of stuff, with the digital equivalent of a brain-damaged cat sitting at the center of it guaranteeing the worst possible experience.

▲ 0_____0 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> "Stop" is a song by English girl group the Spice Girls from their second studio album, Spiceworld (1997).