It worked pretty well for me until a few months ago (maybe when I updated to iOS 16?). Always mostly understood me even though I’m not a native English speaker and it was always able to do the simple things I asked for (for example, setting timers, turning off alarms, calling someone, opening apps, etc).

Now, the experience is much worse for some reason and weirdly I don’t see other people talk about my problem specifically. I always see complaints about it not understanding requests, not being able to do simple stuff, etc but for me it just straight up ignores me lol.

It appears as soon as I say “hey siri”; it understands my request very well and everything I said appears on the screen. Then, it shows the thinking animation with the spinning circles and after a moment it goes away without giving any answer. It’s so weird and it turned completely useless after this problem started appearing.