Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman disseminated a tweet stating that we could see Apple change the Siri wake phrase to «Siri» from «Hey Siri.»
In all tests that this writer has seen, whenever Apple’s digital assistant Siri goes up against Google Assistant, the results are like the Florida Panthers going up against your kid’s pee-wee hockey team. Google Assistant thrashes Siri when it comes to understanding queries and tasks and delivers more accurate results. Yeah, this is sad considering that Apple had an advantage when it introduced Siri in the iPhone 4s back in 2011.But if a tweet from Bloomberg’s top man on the Apple beat, Mark Gurman, is correct, on Monday Apple will take Siri ahead of Google in one important way. Instead of using the «Hey Siri» wake phrase to activate Siri, in iOS 17 users will just have to say «Siri» to get the old gal ready to take on your tasks, requests, and queries. Gurman, to his credit (although we will have to wait until after Monday’s WWDC Keynote to get the confirmation from Apple), originally mentioned this last November.
