iPhone talks to you out of the blue?

Pinkpoison · May 1, 2015

Today I had the weirdest experience, My iPhone 6 spoke to me for no reason, This happened two or three times.

After digging around in Google i discovered that this is a quirk of the "Hey Siri" feature and only happens when the phone is plugged in.
It picks up sounds that may be in the room, In my case I think it was the tv and misinterprets it as a command.

It would be interesting to know if this has happened to anyone else and how you reacted.

scifan57 · May 1, 2015

It's happened a few times when listening to audio books on my iPad with the plugged in iPhone right next to it. It was quite startling the first time it happened.

Pinkpoison · May 1, 2015

Its funny really isn't it, I sat there looking around the room to see where the disembodied voice came from.

Coastiejoe · May 1, 2015

Happened to me as well. In my house alone, TV a was on, and Siri says, "I can do that". Freaked me out a bit.

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Pinkpoison · May 1, 2015

Coastiejoe said:
Happened to me as well. In my house alone, TV a was on, and Siri says, "I can do that". Freaked me out a bit.

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Mine said..."Ivy I didn't hear what you said".......

scifan57 · May 1, 2015

Poisonivy said:
Its funny really isn't it, I sat there looking around the room to see where the disembodied voice came from.

It sure is. At first I had no idea what was going on.

bear7962 · May 2, 2015

I have the TV on while I sleep. It's background noise and apparently easy for me to ignore. Around 3am one night Siri piped up and that woke me up immediately. Very startled. Good thing I had not changed the voice to a male voice. I probably would have had a heart attack.
You can turn the Hey Siri function off.

Pinkpoison · May 2, 2015

Thanks bear, I decided to leave "Hey Siri" on as its useful and once I realised what it was I found it amusing.
I turn my phone off before I go to sleep so no chance of it waking me up.

Russtopher · Jan 15, 2017

True story. A former girlfriend of mine had Siri speak up while eating dinner. Siri said "I'm sorry Diane, I can't seem to locate your mother." This was exactly to the day, a year after her mother passed away.