Apple iPhones Are Asking Users to Check In With Dead Relatives. Siri, What’s Up With That?

Apple‘s virtual assistant Siri wants you to check in with friends and family, even if you live on different continents, are divorced, or one of you is dead.

The New York Times reports on a strange prompt many iPhone users have been receiving on their phones: a suggestion to “Start a Check-In” with someone and “Let them know when you arrive at your destination.”

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Sounds nice, but the odd thing about this feature, as several users told the Times and have posted about on Reddit, is that Siri often suggests random

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