Im hoping Apple gets the new Siri working better on older phones. I was excited to use it but the latest beta / Siri runs too slow on my iPhone Pro Max 15.

Im looking for the same experience I have when talking to chatGPT. As for past two years or more talking to GPT within it's app and on my iPhone Pro Max 15 it runs smooth as butter :-). This is the experience I was and still am hoping with Apple, but Im thinking all the extra layers of privacy and security might be slowing them down?

Overall, Apple who is suing Open AI should just buy them and let me have the best conversational AI out there baked into my old ass iPhone. Because as so far the new Siri on my old phone (tho again GPT works great talking to it and for years) doesnt come close. It's the same old "Could you try that again," Siri. BOO!!!

▲ realityfactchex 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, ChatGPT voice is great experience vs. Siri on that phone. In case you haven't done something like this already:

  1. In Shortcuts app, make shortcut named "AI Voice Mode" (or whatever you want, YMMV)
  2. Set it to run the ChatGPT action "Voice Mode" (requires at least the minimum paid tier, I think)
  3. To trigger, say "Hey Siri, AI Voice Mode" (or whatever you called the shortcut)

This is a pretty slick integration, but yeah, if it were baked in that would be all the better.

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kridsdale1 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can also map the Action Button to GPT voice mode.

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paul7986 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ridiculous that for past many years we can talk to GPT on our iPhones without any hiccups and this new Siri is still the same old horse crap (at least for me and this latest beta). Buy them already Apple or possibly be replaced by them as their path & trajectory (working on Ai devices now and they are stealing like Jobs did with Xerox) mirrors yours in the late 1970s.

Thanks for the tip and if Im not mistaken it's similar to asking Siri to ask chatGPT to ask XYZ?

	▲	realityfactchex 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> similar to asking Siri to ask chatGPT to ask XYZ Effectively, it sort of does that, but really it just listens to the wakeword and opens/switches to the requested app & modality. FWIW, I get a very different functional result using the Shortcut method vs. asking Siri to delegate natively. To compare, I asked Siri (non-beta here) now to "ask ChatGPT <x>" and I got a top-card with some fairly low quality SEO-ranked weblinks.

▲ kridsdale1 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’m on iPhone 17 Pro Max, 27 beta 3.

New Siri is impressive in that it answers satisfactorily now 80% of the time vs 10% with old Siri.

But it’s slow as shit. GPT, Claude, and Gemini can answer me in 5-10 seconds. Google AI Mode can answer in 2 seconds.

New Siri usually takes 25 seconds to respond to me. This morning it timed out (with strong network connection) when asked a simple multiplication question.

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paul7986 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Damn slow on your newer phone too.

	▲	rconti 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's crappy, but it's also a beta, so it's not yet time to render a verdict.

▲ behnamoh 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Im hoping Apple gets the new Siri working better on older phones.

Apple would never do that, if anything they did not offer their Siri with the most advanced AI on iPhone 16 Pro Max, which is one year-old only.