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paul7986 • yesterday at 4:32 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

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!!!

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realityfactchex • yesterday at 4:39 PM

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 • yesterday at 4:39 PM

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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behnamoh • yesterday at 4:49 PM

> 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.