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If Siri could do the following reliably (meaning not having to ask again, not having to repeat, having it work 99% of the time) it would be golden:

1. Find my phone via Siri on homepod

2. Set a simple timer

3. Add to a list

4. Send a text message to one of a few contacts

It can and sometimes does do all of those things, but horribly unreliably.

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For me it really is extremely close to 100% for timers, I barely remember it being wrong and I use it several times per day. Finding my phone via the HomePod also works pretty much every time, may be 90% for me but it doesn’t recognize my wife so for her it basically never works. The others I don’t use enough. But timers and reminders work really well for me and it’s also what I need to most from an assistant.

I’ve seen similar. They really don’t have two person houses down pat - timers work great for me (as long as I never have to ask how much remaining; I’d die for a “count down from 30 seconds”) - but for the wife; nothing.

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