> It couldn't even turn on a flashlight

Thanks for this idea. I just tried it, and Siri was able to do it successfully.

Speech recognition in the cloud to press a button.

> Speech recognition

This is the challenge - to recognize our words, sounds, phonetics, and context. Rest is just commodity.

Rube Goldberg would be proud.

Yes, also reminds me of wall-e.

Makes sense if your hands are filthy.

You'll still have to grab the phone to point the flashlight.

It didn't work for me on iOS 11. I'll try when I'll decide to update.

Siri can control the flashlight as of iOS 12

I also use it for adding calendar events, much easier to say than type a title, set the date and time and set the duration.

Siri can set an alarm for me, add reminder and narrate all my WhatsApp messages. And there goes 85% of my phone usage.

It’s also good for setting location-based reminders (remind me when I leave here bring UPS package). And it used to be the case that some types of repeating calendar entries could only be inputted via Siri (make an appointment for every Thursday at noon called lunch with Steve).

I use it for setting reminders (with the default Reminders app; I use it for everything), sending text messages, calling people, and playing music.

Works pretty well for HomeKit control for me. It’s also decent for random math inquiries (e.g. “how many days until X?”)