[melling]

Yes. Siri will respond to those two questions.

Did you try each then try to stop them with Siri?

[gok]

Oh oh I see you're saying the requests you listed work but "hey Siri stop the timer" and "hey Siri stop the music" don't

[threeseed]

Which absolutely does work. Not really sure what the OP means here.

[melling]

Well, the timer does sort of work... but NOT REALLY.

I tried it several times. It worked 4 out of 5 times on the phone. You know what it doesn't do?

It doesn't stop the timer on my Apple Watch, which keeps buzzing even after my phone stops. The Watch stops if I press the button,

I couldn't get the Music to work.

So, can we be done? I have a couple of Amazon Echos. They just work as a hands-free voice activated device.

[threeseed]

I just have a HomePod but I have told Siri to start/stop the music literally every morning since I bought it.

[gok]

I think he's running into the issue that when the phone is playing loud audio through the speakers, it has trouble picking up voice over that. iPhones don't have the same audio separation hardware as HomePods.

[fastball]

Yes, this is why my initial comment was a bit snarky. GP wants his phone to have properties it fundamentally cannot have, and is not expecting that of any other phone.