Siri amazingly got worse with iOS 15 — here’s how

Siri amazingly got worse with iOS 15 — here'south how

Siri can no longer send emails and other missing commands

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Apple promises big improvements for Siri in iOS 15, with the digital assistant adding better contextual agreement and the ability to share onscreen content. Merely Siri seems to have forgotten how to take care of another basic tasks — and their omission is a puzzling one.

Siri has seemingly lost the ability to check your call history, play voicemail letters and transport emails. That's according to MacRumors which has detailed the full list of previous Siri capabilities that are at present MIA. We've verified the missing capabilities on an iPhone 11 Pro Max running the iOS 15.one beta.

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Here's the specific listing of tasks that Siri no longer performs.

Do I accept whatsoever voicemails?
Play my voicemail messages
Check my call history
Check my recent calls
Who called me?
Send an email
Send an electronic mail to [person's proper name]

Ask Siri to send an email, for instance, and yous'll get a "Sorry, I can't help with that message." You also have the option of tapping a button to open the Mail app. A like message appears for the missing call history and voicemail features. You can go Siri to play your most recent voicemail past asking the banana to play your last voicemail, nevertheless.

The absence of these commands is annoying plenty if you counted on them every bit function of your workflow. If you lot're an iPhone user with impaired vision, though, having the ability to launch emails and check calls with your voice is disquisitional. MacRumors links to an AppleVis forum where users are detailing how the missing Siri commands are impacting them.

Adding to the mystery of what happened to Siri is that this doesn't announced to be tied to the iOS 15 update. Users all the same running iOS 14 have hit the same trouble with the voice assistant. And we tin can verify that, too — on an iPhone XR running the latest version of iOS 14, Siri wouldn't check call history or send an email.

The irony hither is that with iOS 15, Apple tree touts the smartest version of Siri always. Requests at present take place on the telephone itself, which makes your Siri queries faster and more than secure. Additional features let you share items like photos, podcasts, Map locations and other content only by telling Siri to share it with a specific person in your contacts. Siri is also better at understanding request context, making it easier to ask the assistant follow-upward questions when you lot're asking about locations, operating hours and more.

Every bit dainty as those additions are, though, they're not very useful if Siri can't handle the basics, and that's the situation nosotros seem to be in now. Apple hasn't told MacRumors however if the removed Siri skills are intentional or whether this is a bug that will be fixed in a future update. Nosotros're hoping that it turns out to be the latter.

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Philip Michaels is a senior editor at Tom'south Guide. He has potent opinions about Apple tree, the Oakland Athletics and sometime movies. Follow him at @PhilipMichaels.