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Two minutes became ten. A water pump became Bluetooth.

A user recounts a day of Siri mishearing them: a HomePod set the wrong timer, and their watch turned off Bluetooth when they asked for a water pump.

A small round smart speaker beside two mismatched analog kitchen timers, their hands pointing in very different directions. (opens in a new tab)
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In a post dated November 8, 2024, a user describes asking their HomePod for a two-minute timer and getting a ten-minute one instead. Later, a request to their watch to turn on a water pump led Siri to switch off Bluetooth. The toggle Siri displayed did not seem to turn Bluetooth back on, which they only discovered later when the watch could not find their iPhone. They eventually fixed it by checking the watch’s Bluetooth setting directly. The poster wondered if their pronunciation played a role, and this is a single user’s anecdote.

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