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TL; DR
- Apple quietly added a new Siri app to the iOS App Store in August.
- With the Siri Speech Study app, selected users can give Apple their feedback on Siri.
- Users must be invited by Apple to access the app.
The digital assistant Siri has been part of Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices for years. But even after all this time, Siri still struggles to recognize even the simplest of voice commands. Now it looks like Apple wants to be proactive in improving Siri. TechCrunch reports that a special Siri app has now found its way into the iOS App Store.
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The Siri Speech Study app, discovered by research firm Sensor Tower, was first released on August 9th. It is available in many different countries, including the United States. However, the app cannot be found while browsing or searching the iOS appstore.
When contacting TechCrunch, Apple said the app is by invitation only; You can’t just find it and then use it. When you’re invited, you’ll be taken to the app, which is basically just a link to access a license agreement, along with a screen for the user to enter their unique ID number.
The new Siri app will give these selected users the opportunity to give Apple direct feedback. They’ll see a list of the requests they made to Siri and send feedback on any of those requests they choose. When a Siri request ends with the wrong command or information, that’s the kind of feedback Apple wants to get. Other than the feedback users send back to Apple, no other information is collected or sent to the company.
Hopefully this survey app will allow Apple to finally bring Siri up to date. In the meantime, iPhone and iPad owners will likely have problems using Siri for a while.