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I love my iPhone, it's a great device.

However, quite literally the only two things I use Siri for are asking "what song is this?" and "set a timer for X minutes."

I'm sure there are ways I could be using it for any number of things that might improve some routine process in my life, but I never found them.

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The timer, sometimes, and occasionally I try to get Siri to play something in the car so I don't have to look at my phone. It normally fails -- it will play something random from apple music before it plays anything from my library.

This drives me nuts. I get it, sometimes albums and songs have similar names. It seems like Siri should be able to deduce which I'm asking for given I've listened to one album over a hundred times and never listened to the random thing with the same name it decides to pull up.

The most impressive thing I can get Siri to do is "Hey Siri, play my <playlist name> on Spotify", and it works consistently. "Hey Siri, reply." is another decent one, but it seems to be working poorly lately.

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