[xp84]

> they just can't seem to figure out what to do with it.

That's the funny thing about Siri. It has since Day 1 insisted on being exclusively online-only, processing on the server - even for commands that the pre-Siri Voice Control could do fully locally on an iPhone 3Gs such as "Call Steve" or "Turn Wi-Fi on"

That decision always surprised me, and it's surprising that Siri's never improved given that unlike Apple Intelligence it is not limited to on-device nor to PCC.

For all the scorn directed lately at the "Apple Intelligence" team for not shipping anything they promised, I have to hand it to JG's team for at least building a local processing capability plus having PCC instead of just one server-side thing and a "Trust Me Bro" like Siri.

If we're lucky, they'll build new Siri stuff from scratch using local + PCC, and finally push the old Siri stuff into the scrapyard where it belongs.

[MarioMan]

Siri has supported an offline subset of commands since iOS 15 came out in 2021.

I just tested this with Wi-Fi and cellular data disabled. Calling someone works perfectly and asking to turn Wi-Fi on presents the relevant toggle.

[xp84]

Sorry, so it was only 11 years for them to restore the functionality that Siri in effect "took away" in 2010.

The only way to get it back for those 11 years was to disable Siri entirely, meaning you had to be "cloud dependent" or stick to that unchanging set of offline-only features exclusively for a decade. Not a lot for the Siri team to be proud of there.