Apple Photos managed to combine my father and my wife in people’s and pets, seriously not an auspicious start for Apple Intelligence!

I have previously written about the problems with Appel Photos new People and Pets and my dogs. It keeps tagging Indiana Bones photos (who is dead) to pictures of Pepper Pawtts over and over again. Super frustrating. It really needs the ability to add deceased and born tags. Or take into account keywords?

Well now I have a new problem that is seriously frustrating. I have been going through People and Pets and getting it all setup with contact info for my closets family and friends. Well as of yesterday it combined my wife and my father.

Now my wife is Kelly Lynn Pancho Walker and my dad is Kelly Deanne Walker. And I had them setu correctly and attached to their individual contacts. And they seriously look nothing alike!

And the best part is going through and telling it that my dad is not my wife doesn’t seem to transfer between devices. Over the past 7 days I have had to do the same thing on my computer, iPad and iPhone, and multiple times on some of the devices. And I keep going back and finding more photos of my dad tagged to my wife! In fact I have gone through my 10,000+ photos of my over 15 times and every time there is at least one photo of my father stuck in there, and usually more like 6-10! WTF!

And unlike old versions of photos where I could tag people myself, now you have to let Photos do it, so I have no way to retag photos of my father as himself! And he doesn’t show up as his own person. Again WTf!

Apple makes things simpler with less control for users, which is fine, at least until they don’t work! And then there is no way to fix anything! And this new feature is not ready for prime time, but knowing Apple I don’t know if it ever will be!

Honestly this is the simplest Apple Intelligence available for all compatible devices and if this is the quality, then I am scared of the quality of Apple Intelligence. This is a bug that should not happen!

Key wording photos has always been time intensive so Apple automatically tagging people is great, but not with mistakes like this.

All I can do now is wait see if my father ever reshows as a possible person, is I can tag him and have his photos show up as himself, but I doubt it will ever happen. Will 10 years from now, will photos of my father keep showing up tagged as my wife? It seems pretty likely!

Is it just me or has Alexa become garbage?

For a while Alexa hasn’t worked as well for me as my wife, but lately things have gotten so much worse.

We have 4 Alexa devices in our house, and we use it mostly to play music, set alarms and cooking timers and activate devices with voice control. My wife also makes shopping lists, though they aren’t compatible with shopping list program I use so I don’t it for that.

My issue is how much Alexa actively ignores me, like when a reminder comes on and it just won’t stop (unless I mark it done on my phone).

And even with music attached to my Apple Music account it often can’t find songs, but lately it won’t play songs, or they take a while to start and then only play half way through and stop. This seems to happen about 60% of the time of late. Maybe it is the Apple Music thing, but I don’t pay for Amazon music above my Prime membership.

And Apple music doesn’t explain why I will be talking to one Alexa and ask it to play music and it will play music in another room about 25% of the time. And it isn’t like it can heard me from the other room. I can’t seem to get it to do this with commands myself and it just makes zero sense. Why would it play in another room and not the Alexa that is responding to me?

And I use it to control the light in the Baby’s and I would say that is about 33% successful. It works less than it doesn’t, and I am repeating myself. It is great when it works, but is super frustrating when carrying a screaming baby to get a diaper change.

And then there are the creepy ads that show up all over social media when my wife and I talk about things around Alexa. I fucking hate targeted advertising!

And now they are talking about making a paid tier of Alexa to make it better. Really? Fix what exists first!

Honestly if I could get a bunch of Apple HomePods for cheap enough I would love to replace our Alexa’s! At least Apple places some value on privacy, though I am sure there will have to be new models to deal with Apple Intelligence when that comes out and those will cost more!