Siri appears to have lost the ability to make requests to rate songs played in the Apple Music app in iOS 15 and later, based on user reports and testing conducted by MacRumors.
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When listening to a song from your music library on iPhone and iPad, it was possible to ask Siri to "rate this song five [or any number] stars" and the virtual assistant did so.
This ability to rate songs in the Apple Music app with Siri was introduced way back in iOS 8. Listeners typically rely on the feature to rate songs in their library when listening hands-free via CarPlay, while wearing AirPods, or making smart playlists based on ratings.
However, reports on Reddit, Apple Support Communities, and the MacRumors forums suggest that the feature is not available in iOS 15 or iOS 15.1, and remains disabled in the latest iOS 15.2 version, released in December. Instead of carrying out the request, Siri responds with “I'm Sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that” or some variation thereof.
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It's unclear whether this is an intended change by Apple or an intermittent server-side issue that has arisen since the release of iOS 15, but it's worth noting that iOS 15 and iOS 15.2 made functional changes to Siri, in relation to Apple Music interoperability, and more generally at the system level.
In iOS 15, Apple made changes to Siri so that some requests would be handled offline, for faster query recognition when doing things like opening apps and setting alarms and timers. Then, in iOS 15.2, the company introduced a new Apple Music Voice Plan that relies solely on Siri to play music and interact with the user.
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Whether any of these changes are behind Siri's inability to rate songs on request is currently unknown.
Source of information: macrumors.com
