Josh Elman called a HomeView user’s reported experience with Siri “painful” to watch. He shared the complaint in a November 14, 2026, quote-post. Source
“These things work great with Siri AI on the phone but the implementation on HomeView is still needing to catch up,” Elman wrote. Alexa didn’t get a victory lap, either: “Alexa’s isn’t much better though.” Source
The complaint Elman shared came from @talkaboutdesign, who called both HomeView and Siri “a joke.” In a follow-up, the account said they had tried resetting their HomeView and were running what they called the latest version, 27.2. “For the last two hours, Siri has not been working at all,” they wrote. Source Source
Another user, @joshdwise, reported that Siri said it couldn’t stop music playing on their HomeView. The request wasn’t exactly elaborate: “stop playing music.” Source
Other users had a different story. @ZKDID_ wrote that “Apple HomeView is working fine for me,” while @neilcybart said, “I haven’t had one issue with Siri on HomeView.” Those accounts don’t disprove the complaints. Source Source
Elman also pointed to the difficulty of connecting non-deterministic language models, which can answer the same prompt differently, to deterministic functions, which return the same result for the same input. Source The posts don’t establish that a language model caused either user’s reported problem.
The linked videos weren’t inspected for this article, and the available posts include no official Apple response. The conflicting personal accounts don’t establish a widespread defect or show whether the reported problems have been resolved.
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