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submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by tonytins@pawb.social to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

If you were watching the State of the Union address, and you’re an iPhone user, then toward the end of the speech, during President Trump’s recounting of the story of Chief Warrant Officer Eric Slover, you might have had Siri triggered—assuming you have voice activation turned on.

This feature once required the user to say “Hey Siri” but now only requires “Siri.”

At least one other Bluesky user confirmed that she experienced the same thing. A user on X said the erroneous Siri trigger word was “serious” not “searing,” but the timing of the post suggests it was the same moment.

Another Bluesky user (whose posts are off-limits to those who are not logged into Bluesky), posted a Google results page Siri pulled up following the Siri-triggering line, featuring a bunch a results about bullets going through legs.

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[-] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

It was such a strange and disturbing "show". He kept making up success stories, throwing shade towards the Dems and then the camera panned to some miserable looking Democrat (usually foreign looking).

[-] ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip 14 points 15 hours ago

Siri inexplicably sucks so bad.

[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

It’s brutal, I’ve felt no improvement to Siri since it launched back in 2011. I tried asking for the weather and it couldn’t read out the forecast.

[-] Decq@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

How low do you value your time and person to watch that crap-stain talk? It must be a masochist thing I guess. Then again it's an apple user so they probably have a hard time evaluating things.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 18 points 19 hours ago

I wonder what it's like owning an IPhone and working with someone called Siri?

[-] Bot@sub.community 5 points 17 hours ago

I thought it is supposed to only response to your voice only

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 6 points 17 hours ago

my kids cant trigger siri on my phone - much to their annoyance

[-] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

Glad I didn’t watch that nonsense lol

this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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