Apple promised major improvements to Siri in iOS 15, with the digital assistant adding better contextual understanding and the ability to share on-screen content However, Siri seems to have forgotten how to handle some other basic tasks

Siri appears to have lost the ability to check call history, play voicemail, and send email This is according to MacRumors, which details the full list of previous Siri features that are now MIA We have identified the missing features in the iPhone 11 Pro Max running iOS 151 beta

Below is a specific list of tasks that Siri is no longer able to perform

For example, asking Siri to send an email will display "Sorry, I can't help with that message" You have the option of tapping the button to open the Mail app The same message appears if you do not have call history and voicemail capabilities However, you can ask Siri to play the most recent voicemail by asking Siri to play the last voicemail

The absence of these commands is annoying enough if you rely on them as part of your workflow However, if you are a sight-impaired iPhone user, the ability to use your voice to launch email or check calls is critical, and MacRumors has linked to the AppleVis forums, where users have discussed how the lack of Siri commands affects them in They explain in detail

What adds to the mystery of what happened to Siri is that this does not appear to be related to the iOS 15 update Users still running iOS 14 are running into the same problem with the voice assistant On the iPhone XR running the latest version of iOS 14, Siri was unable to check call history or send texts

The irony here is that with iOS 15, Apple is touting its smartest version of Siri yet Requests are now made on the phone, making queries to Siri faster and safer In addition, Siri now has the ability to share content such as photos, podcasts, and map locations by simply asking Siri to share them with specific people in your contacts Siri also has an improved ability to understand the context of a request, so when asking about locations, hours of operation, etc Siri also has an improved ability to understand the context of a request, making it easier to ask the Assistant follow-up questions when asking about locations, hours of operation, and so on

While these additional features are great, they are not very useful if Siri cannot handle the basics Apple has yet to reveal to MacRumors whether the removed Siri skills are intentional or a bug that will be fixed in a future update We hope it is the latter