{"id":23907,"date":"2019-01-09T16:35:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T21:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23907"},"modified":"2019-01-11T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T22:46:08","slug":"the-toxic-fragility-of-siri-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/09\/the-toxic-fragility-of-siri-shortcuts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Toxic Fragility of Siri Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdrifter.com\/2018\/12\/the-toxic-fragility-of-siri-shortcuts.html\">Gabe Weatherhead<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macdrifter.com\/2018\/12\/the-toxic-fragility-of-siri-shortcuts.html\">\n<p>I love both of these Shortcuts because I can use a simple voice command to trigger them and they make my life a tiny bit better. Well, they did until a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Without predictable outcomes from Siri Shortcuts it might as well not exist. It&rsquo;s not helpful to issue a command that worked yesterday and get a joke response back today. If I wanted that, I&rsquo;d ask my kid to do it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nriley\/status\/1083051159101804545\">Nicholas Riley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nriley\/status\/1083051159101804545\">\n<p>Very surprised this doesn&rsquo;t get more press. Siri shortcuts reliability, like Siri overall, is so bad that I can&rsquo;t rely on it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"the-toxic-fragility-of-siri-shortcuts-update-2019-01-11\">Update (2019-01-11): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daveverwer\/status\/1083707612624048128\">Dave Verwer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daveverwer\/status\/1083707612624048128\">\n<p>I hadn&rsquo;t seen this until I was just catching up with @mjtsai&rsquo;s blog, but this tweet thread from me sounds like the same bug.<\/p>\n<p>I know it&rsquo;s not good enough, but deleting the shortcut and recreating it with the same phrase does work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabe Weatherhead: I love both of these Shortcuts because I can use a simple voice command to trigger them and they make my life a tiny bit better. Well, they did until a couple of weeks ago. [&#8230;] Without predictable outcomes from Siri Shortcuts it might as well not exist. It&rsquo;s not helpful to issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-01-09T21:35:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"f0c26ef0-67fb-4b06-8ec3-ca49c8e2dae1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-01-11T22:46:13Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8MJu8Gf7SwaOw8pJyOLa4Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[131,31,1610,1686,247],"class_list":["post-23907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bug","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-shortcuts","tag-siri"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23918,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907\/revisions\/23918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}