Siri is Apple’s voice-activated digital assistant. (Representative photo)
A woman in Britain has said she has been forced to change her name due to the latest update to Apple’s iOS software. Edinburgh-based Siri Price told it The sun said she had to do this to stop iPhones from pinging every time someone calls her name. The 26-year-old fitness trainer is now known to friends as Siz. She told the outlet that Apple’s voice-activated digital assistant would activate when her friends used the phrase “Hey Siri” to call her.
“I work at a gym with a lot of people around, so everyone learned pretty quickly not to say ‘Hey’ when they greet me or there would be a lot of squeaking going on,” Ms. Price said. The sun.
Following the recent update, users now just need to say ‘Siri’ to make their devices spring into action.
“It was annoying but manageable. Now people can’t even say my name. I’m absolutely furious,” the woman said.
“My colleagues had to sit down and come up with a solution because people’s phones were ringing non-stop,” she added.
She said her name Siri means “beautiful woman who leads you to victory” in Old Norse. But Apple’s abbreviation stands for ‘Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface’.
“I’m sure Apple could have chosen something else – there are plenty of people named Siri and it just makes their lives unbearable,” Ms Price said.
Apple has so far said nothing about Ms. Price’s predicament.
Another such bizarre incident was reported from the US, where a woman named Alexa Seary said her full name was a trigger for two digital assistants, which she said was a “walking nightmare.”
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