Siri is a pretty handy virtual assistant on your Apple Watch. It can tell you the temperature, convert measurements, send text messages, and do several other things without you having to take your iPhone out of your pocket.
The one thing you should never have to do, however, is ask it what time it is because you’re wearing a watch, and that’s the minimum of information it should provide you without you having to ask. Seriously, just bring up your wrist. The time is right there.
But if you’re thick as a brick and ask Apple Watch Siri what time it is, it’ll come back with one of over a dozen silly responses. Check out our results below:
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Note that I’ve removed my location and the actual times from these screens for neatness and clarity, but Siri will actually give you the information you requested. It’ll just have some more dumb jokes for you to give you an opportunity to realize how silly it is that you just asked the virtual assistant on your watch for the time.
The gags cover a lot of ground, including the opening lines of “Good Vibrations” by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, sage advice, and just straight up sass. But again, you had that coming.
It’s also funny to note that Siri on your iPhone doesn’t make these jokes. It just coughs up the numbers even though you spend more time holding your Home button to activate the program than it would have taken you just to click on it to get the same information from your lock screen. Sometimes, it’ll offer some commentary like, “It’s late,” but that’s a pretty poor substitution for that Flight of the Conchords reference.
Evan Killham is a freelance writer who lives in Nebraska and isn’t interested in football, so he has plenty of time to play and think about video games. He has written for Bitmob and GamesBeat and sometimes, he even goes outside. But not too often because he’s heard there are bees out there. Occasionally, companies send free units for review. Evan subscribes to Cult of Mac’s Reviews Policy and also does not keep the items he receives for possible coverage.
7 responses to “Asking Apple Watch for the time will get you some well-earned sass”
I can’t speak for the Apple Watch, but I know I use Siri on occasion to tell me the time while bicycling. My phone is sitting in my backpack and I’m not going to stop and pull it out to see the time.
Frankly. I somewhat agree with Google on this. When I ask for the time, tell me the time. I don’t need attitude, I don’t need cuteness, I don’t need an “assistant” with “personality.” I need the time–otherwise I wouldn’t be asking.
As the article says, Siri on the iPhone doesn’t do this. This happens only on the Watch. Because you deserve a little sass for not simply looking at your watch that has the time on it.
There are so many reasons to ask the time. Maybe your hands are full, maybe your arms are broken or maybe, I don’t know, YOU ARE BLIND. Didn’t anyone at Apple seriously think about that.
Except Siri on the Watch doesn’t talk to you so the blind argument doesn’t work. If your arms are broken, you wouldn’t be wearing the Watch. So yes, Apple thought about that. You didn’t think it through like they did.
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Doesn’t the Apple Watch tell the time without you having to ask? Maybe that’s why it gives people an attitude. It should have the ability to have the user turn on/off the attitude. maybe that feature they should add.
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