[DiabloD3]

Apple recently removed the old Siri backend service and replaced it with "Apple Intelligence", which farms the requests out to whoever Apple is partnering with to provide inference. When this switch happened, it basically broke every user's phone if they relied on Siri.

I'm glad I'm on Android. I can just uninstall Google Assistant, which did the same transformation into a Gemini frontend. I wasn't using Assistant at all, so it isn't a meaningful loss for me.

[lurking_swe]

I read somewhere that they are using tiny models on device for some queries, and then sending requests to apple servers for “complex” things. But i doubt that’s the case tbh. Why? Because even some open source models that i run locally on my mac (deepseek r1) produce better responses than what siri is providing lol. So im very skeptical.

If they truly are processing some siri requests in the cloud, im shocked at how incompetent their implementation is.

i haven’t kept up with siri to be honest. All i know is siri is still working for me, but it’s a degraded experience.