Apple HomePod Bug: Siri Can’t Even Tell the Time

HomePod has a suspected bug that can’t even tell the time

HomePod is suspected to have a bug that can’t even tell the time

I wonder what people most often ask or ask the built-in smart assistant for help after buying a smart speaker? As far as the author is concerned, perhaps the most common activities, apart from playing music and asking about the weather, are the countdown (very useful in the kitchen!) and the time.

Interestingly, in the past day, some media saw that the Siri voice assistant on Apple HomePod and HomePod mini seemed to have an embarrassing bug. Because it’s really just like the song “The Clock Who Forgot Time”, “the head is empty” and can’t answer this everyday question that should be very basic for smart devices.

As foreign media found MacRumors, in the past two days, the smart voice assistant Siri that is equipped on the products of Apple’s HomePod series could not tell the time correctly.

When a problem like this occurs, even the concept of “What time is it?” change to “I found some web results, I can show them if you ask again from your ‌iPhone” That is to say, when you come across a search that cannot be answered to just with the basic function, the user will be directed to look at the process of searching for keywords through devices such as iPhone – that is to say, because they are looking at the phones -hands, they will naturally know the time (laughs).

According to reports, Apple has basically started to solve this problem.

The reason it is said to be preliminary is because “What time is it?”, if there are different questions like: “what time is it?” or “can you tell me the time?” it is still possible.

Interestingly, this bug, which is thought to happen on the server side, does not appear to occur on all devices that support the Siri voice assistant. Because it seems that only HomePod has met this condition. It seems to work well on devices like iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Although many people buy smart speakers specifically for listening to music. However, as smart speakers put “wisdom” in the product type, naturally in addition to asking the voice assistant to play music, we also expect more uses at “it” that smartly improves life.

In addition to this situation where even very basic problems cannot be handled normally, some people have reported in the past that Siri seems to have experienced some minor problems recently with a function connected functionality of its own devices related to HomeKit.

With WWDC, the latest features and system updates of the entire Apple ecosystem may be announced. Personally, I would prefer to consider it. capabilities.

This is not to say that preparing new features can rationalize the occurrence of these basic conditions. But after all, except for Apple, it may be difficult for the outside world to know what happened when such a basic function failed. So it is not surprising that there are some ideas that are biased towards imagination.

In short, while we look forward to Apple completely catching up with next-generation AI development at this WWDC, we also hope that the traditional voice assistant Siri can work properly the -start and avoid bugs!