[rubicon33]

To start a timer, raise your watch to your mouth and simply say “start 1 hour timer”.

You don’t even need to say “hey Siri”. It starts listening on the gesture of raising it to your mouth. Genius.

Raise watch to mouth and try things…

“Text Danielle ____” “Open Pandora” “Open wallet”

There are also settings to disable active watch face unless it’s raised. I have that enabled and never have issues accidentally hitting it. Check your settings and let me know if that helps.

[tshaddox]

The raise-and-speak feature is extremely unreliable. It seems to refuse to trigger if you’ve interacted with the watch in the last few seconds, so if you try to speak to it and it doesn’t trigger, it certainly won’t trigger when you immediately try again.

It also triggers all the time accidentally when my watch was nowhere near my mouth. I frequently look at the watch and see a message like “I don’t understand that” with a transcription of something it thinks I said.

“Hey Siri” is also unreliable, mostly because if you hesitate for a few too many milliseconds it thinks you’ve finished your query. I almost exclusively use Siri by holding the power button on my iPhone or Apple Watch.

[rubicon33]

Very interesting. Personally, I don't have any of the issues you've mentioned.

I wonder if we're somehow using it differently? Different model? Not sure what could explain the delta in our experiences.

I never use "Hey Siri" because I've always found my phone just easier to unlock and manually operate. The watch however seems to be a really great application of voice control.

[varispeed]

Do they collect this information somehow? I mean by wearing this device and using e.g. a timer, do Apple employees can find out for example how often did particular person use the timer and for how long?