Why Won’t Siri Tell Me the Temperature in Centigrade?
Now that Siri is available on the latest iPad, as part of iOS 6, I’ve been experimenting with it. It works much better than in iOS 5, and can even tell me the temperature. However, it won’t tell me in centigrade.

If I ask on my iPhone, however, I get the temperature in centigrade:

A fried speculates that since there is a Weather app for the iPhone, and I have that set to centigrade, Siri spots that and gives me the temperature using that scale. But since there is no Weather app on the iPad (go figure…), it fails. Even though my time zone is set in France, where centigrade is standard.
There really should be a default unit setting somewhere. Another Siri oddity…
Update: The solution is this. On the iPad, open the Clock app, tap on Edit, and you have two buttons, F and C. Nice place to put that option.


Go to: the new clock app, click on edit in the top left corner and then select C ( not F). Good day
Well I’ll be damned, that’s a heck of a place to put it. Thanks.
BTW, It’s Celsius, not Centigrade.
It’s either.
The term Centigrade was officially dropped in favour of Celsius in 1948. They are defined differently, but the change was chiefly made because the Centigrade already had a different meaning in French and Spanish.
Yes, in French, it means a scale of 100. Which is exactly what it is.
In French (and Spanish) it has a more specific meaning than simply a scale of 100. It’s a unit of angular measurement. I agree that either celsius or Centigrade is acceptable for temperature, but celsius is ‘more’ correct.
Thanks for the tip. I’d never would have found that. what were they thinking…