The recently pushed iOS 15 software update quietly removed features such as Siri calls and voice mail required by low-vision and blind users. After testing, MacRumors found that multiple detailed Siri commands related to phone calls, voice mail, and sending seem to be no longer valid. In fact, in the past two weeks, there have been several e-mails from iPhone users claiming that these functions are missing, so I hope the media can help their relatives and friends to resolve their troubles.
The following are related commands that used to work, but have recently been deleted:
- Have I received any voice mails?
- Play my voice mail
- View my call history
- View my recent calls
- Who is calling me?
- send email
- Send an email to [someone]
In addition, the removed Siri function was also confirmed on the AppleVis forum. A netizen said:
- A friend told me that she cannot use Siri to call the email sending function of iPhone 8 / iOS 14.
- I also tried it on my iPhone SE/iOS 15.0, but only received the reply Sorry, I can’t do anything.
- Later, I came to the same conclusion on a backup machine running iOS 12.
- If Apple deliberately castrates these functions, it will undoubtedly be a huge loss for visually impaired users.
MacRumors pointed out that before the last iOS update, if asked to play voice mail, Siri was able to do so. It is reported that this netizen’s sister is blind, Siri can still respond to some voice commands, such as reading text, calling someone, answering weather-related questions, and more importantly, call reminders.
But after the recent iOS update, Siri can only answer I can’t help, but you can let me open the phone app. Even if the user agrees to require Siri to broadcast the latest available voice mails or voice mails from specific contacts, they can no longer read all available voice mail lists.
