I was okay with Apple Intelligence if it was just a rebrand of Siri or didn’t have all the features yet. But it’s actually worse. I used Siri a lot—whether I was driving, had my hands full, or just didn’t feel like typing long messages. It used to work decently, but now Apple Intelligence is just frustrating.
It often misses parts of my sentence, like the start or the middle. For example, I might say, “Guess what I just found,” and it misses the beginning, or “I’m so tired of this stupid AI,” and it cuts out the middle part.
When I send longer messages, it seems to forget how punctuation works. It ends up with sentences like, “It structures longer messages. Like it’s never heard of a comma. Before.”
It also messes up simple words. Once, I said “bar graphs,” and it thought I said “bananas.” Impressive, right?
Sometimes it erases my message while I’m trying to confirm if I want to send it. Other times, it just freezes and stops responding entirely. I’ll say, “Hey Siri,” but it’s unresponsive until I restart my phone.
Weirdly, it gets worse if I sound frustrated. If I say, “No, edit,” it either breaks down or makes the message worse than before.
It’s shocking how bad this feature is, even compared to other rushed AI releases.
Apple Intelligence really isn’t great. If you want something that works well, check out the Google Pixel 9 Pro. I’m an Apple user myself—I have the iPhone 16 Pro and use all the beta updates—but Apple Intelligence just doesn’t work like they hyped it up to. I also use a Google Pixel, and their Gemini AI is so much better. The only downside is I’m tied to Apple’s ecosystem.
@Harlan
I think Apple Intelligence was meant to launch fully with iOS 19, but they rushed it out early to please investors.
There’s also talk about iOS 19 introducing a new AI-based Siri, which makes me think they split the release into two phases. But it backfires because now everyone sees the new design but still deals with the same bad Siri. By the time they release the improvements, people might have already moved on.
@Dru
I doubt anything will change. Apple has lost credibility when it comes to improving Siri or AI features. They messed up big time. Most people don’t care, though. Personally, I’m done.
Skyler said: @Dru
I doubt anything will change. Apple has lost credibility when it comes to improving Siri or AI features. They messed up big time. Most people don’t care, though. Personally, I’m done.
It’s disappointing because AI assistants have so much potential to be like personal helpers, which is what they promised years ago. But the ones we have now are so bad, and I worry that if people lose interest, we’ll never see the good versions.
@Jordy
Siri isn’t fully on-device and never claimed to be, except for small tasks like setting timers in recent versions. You might be confusing data processing with using private data.