Siri Is a Bit Under the 'Weather' Lately

A limited number (for now) of iPhone 4S users seem to be having trouble connecting to their weather service through Siri. The problem, for some, emerges when querying the local forecast.

“Siri does not seem to be woriking [sic] with any weather related service. It keeps saying 'Let me check for weather in Tro_____. I am not able to find weather information right now. Please try again later',” writes a person on Apple’s forums.

“Its been doing this ever since I got the new phone. I reset my location warnings, turned off and on both Siri and iphone, reset all settings - everything. Just doesn't work. However, everything else with Siri works! Conversions for units from wolfarmalpha, reminders, etc seem to be working…”

Others are reporting similar behavior. This person says Siri will provide the weather forecast for other cities, just as advertised by Apple. However, not for his own: “I can ask for weather in other cities - just can't get Siri to articulate weather in my town even though iPhone weather app detects correctly.”

One person seems to have nailed it: “I had the same problem, then I tried another city and it worked. So I went back and said ‘what is the weather HERE for tomorrow?’ By adding ‘here’ that once it now works every time (even with simpler ‘what is tomorrow's weather?’ type Q's),” this person explains.

If true, then this means either Apple has another bug in iOS, or that the assistant needs a bit of calibration upon querying the service for the first time for some types of information.

In any case, this isn’t the expected behavior after watching Apple’s countless TV ads and live demonstrations of Siri.

While the list of people experiencing this issue is not large right now, the forum threads may pile up just like with the batterygate issue.