The AI took over my phone and cannot set timers or alarms

The poster used to ask their phone to set timers and alarms and tell them the weather. Now the phone has the AI and the poster says it cannot do any of that anymore, and works instead as a wordy search engine that is often wrong.

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How it works

The poster asks the phone to set timers and alarms and tell the weather
The AI cannot do those things anymore
It answers like a search engine instead

Why it’s worth knowing

Timers, alarms and weather are the basic jobs a phone assistant did for years. After the AI took over, the poster says the phone cannot do any of them.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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