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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by vpribish on Thursday April 27, 2023 @02:09PM (#35732240)
"hey siri, start a 10 minute timer for the oven"

"hey siri, set a 30 minute timer for the rice."

it works just fine for me, use it all the time.

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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by neurobama on Thursday April 27, 2023 @02:16PM (#35732343)
Doesn't work for me. I get this:

>There's already a [number] minute timer. Replace? Confirm/Cancel

Running iOS 16.1, so unless they added this feature in the last few months I'm not sure why we'd see different results.

edit: Perhaps you're using HomePod? Apparently Siri on HomePod supports multiple timers, while Siri on iPhone does not. Goofy.

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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by nneonneo on Thursday April 27, 2023 @02:26PM (#35732500)
My Apple Watch supports multiple timers, and yet my iPhone does not (iOS 16.4.1).

I mean, I guess a watch is supposed to be for telling time or whatever, but this is just a weird feature omission…

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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by jamiek88 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @02:30PM (#35732555)
siri definitely has multiple timers. BUT you can only have two though and it only works on Apple Watch and HomePods.

I know, right?

Also a little known hack to set a timer you don’t have to say the whole thing just press the Siri button or say hey siri ‘n minutes’ and it will set a timer for n minutes.

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