The Alexa app is so bad I’m using Siri again

My buying database successful Apple’s Reminders app (left) and successful Amazon’s Alexa app (right). A caller UI overhaul of the Alexa app has made the database a batch harder to adhd to and use. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images

I've utilized Alexa to negociate my buying database for years. There are plentifulness of large database apps retired there, but the convenience of adding items by dependable anyplace successful my house, pulling up the database connected an Echo Show successful the kitchen, and having it connected my telephone via the Alexa app has worked good for me. Until it didn't.

Alexa Plus, combined with a redesign of the Alexa app that puts the generative AI-powered adjunct beforehand and center, has made the full process truthful irritating that I've reluctantly switched to Apple's Reminders app and Siri.

This is not what I wanted. I person Echos each implicit my house, but lone a mates of HomePods, and Siri insists connected saying …

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