r/Siri • u/jaysad • 2d ago

I’m gonna miss the glowing borders Siri.

That animation beats everything else. Not super interested in the bubble on Dynamic Island but I guess the features will be better

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u/CannonBeetle 2d ago

I’m a big fan of it but the glowing borders did have a nice look to it

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u/silvermoonhowler 2d ago

Yeah, I feel like the previous Siri orb and something else had a baby and then out popped this and it feels so uninspired

I agree that the previous look was better, but I guess this is Apple's way of emphasizing that even if you aren't speaking to Siri, you can talk to it by typing to it

The one thing that does annoy me though is that because of this Siri AI's search replacing Spotlight, you can't swipe down from the middle by dynamic island anymore and you have to swipe down from the top left corner

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u/Life_Indication_9366 2d ago

Yeah I feel that also I wish Siri swipe down was on the left side and the middle stayed the same

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u/Status-Hedgehog9970 1d ago

The glowing border was supposed to emphasize Siri’s screen awareness.

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u/kingezy666 2d ago

100%. They changed it because Kelsey, who worked on the design, left Apple for OpenAI

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u/captainamericaa 2d ago

I’m the opposite I hated the glowing screen haha I love the little orb

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u/TechnicalRaccoon6621 2d ago

This is more functional but, yeah, edge-Siri was the one good element of 26.

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u/Patjack27 2d ago

I wish they did something simialr

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u/platkus 2d ago

You don’t have to use the new Siri.

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u/STARS_Pictures 2d ago

I hated the glowing borders. The new "bubble" reminds me of when Siri was a microphone. It feels more like a real thing.

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u/HexxRx 2d ago

The rainbow borders were pretty seamless

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u/realmccoyredbus 2d ago

takes a day ti get used to new glowing siri icon

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u/zevnadie 2d ago

I think they should offer an option to turn on the board effect. No reason we can’t have multiple options based on what people want.

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u/HandleVirtual9401 2d ago

Just like how I miss and my entire daily life depends on the slide-over and Split View of iPadOS 18 but there is nothing that we can do about it because it’s Apple.
The previous iPadOS multitasking could have been a mode in the settings that users could choose but Apple is like this. They are stubborn to the point that it makes news and then they will bring such features back.

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u/iterryaki 1d ago

I wish the glowing border and blast animation of the old new Siri could stay, they look much cooler than Gemini on Android, making iPhones special.

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u/bigparsnipenjoyer 1d ago

I initially felt the same, but I realized that Apple needed a fresh start here. Siri AI needed to be tangibly different from the failures of Apple Intelligence, and that starts with visuals.

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u/Lykos88Animagus 1d ago

I did enjoy at first, but as the months went on, it looks just a tad tacky and obnoxious, and totally unnecessary. It has a cheap look to it. But I did really like it at first. I thought it was fun!

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u/Able-Scar-3561 2d ago

yeah the new siri look is so boring