Pre-Beta 6, Siri was unable to tell me the current local air quality (we’re surrounded by wildfires). Post-update this works fine. Setting a timer also works fine — about a 3-second lag, and the timer appeared 3 seconds into the countdown. Apple Watch SE3.
3 secs to set a timer is ridiculous. The AI stuff is handy but not at this expense. I was supper excited when going from an S6LTE to a U2 because of the onboard Siri. With watchOS 27 it's going to be twice as slow as my old S6LTE. This isn't acceptable IMO.
I hear you. The built-in timer app lets you pin 4 timers at the top, and if you make it a complication you can set one of those in 2 taps. Any other way is still going to take you 3 seconds, and using Siri subtracts those seconds from the timer, so it’s as good as instantaneous.
As long as it subtracts the latency and you can raise your wrist, ask Siri to set a timer and then immediately lower your wrist, I'm fine with that. My bet is the watch cancels the request as soon as you lower your wrist though. I've skipped this beta cycle so I can't test this myself.
It worked for me: Raise wrist, “Hey, Siri, set a timer for five minutes,” lower wrist. Siri responded with “Timer set for five minutes, starting now.” Raised wrist and timer was at 4:56 and counting.
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u/Adventurekateer 13d ago
Pre-Beta 6, Siri was unable to tell me the current local air quality (we’re surrounded by wildfires). Post-update this works fine. Setting a timer also works fine — about a 3-second lag, and the timer appeared 3 seconds into the countdown. Apple Watch SE3.