iOS 17 Camera Remote for Apple Watch is Better but still Disappointing

Interesting question, even if it won’t be useful for my use-case (loud environment, me on stage not wanting to be talking to my watch LOL).

I tried I think all combinations of:

<press and hold crown> "[using Camera], [start|capture|record] a video"

I avoided saying “[Hey] Siri” because my phone kept answering instead. NOTHING WORKED. The watch would confirm my request on the screen, and sometimes it would open the Camera Remote app on the watch, but then the watch screen would basically freeze.

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I tried restarting the Camera Remote app, and the Camera app on my iPhone, but that didn’t help. I tried using Siri on my watch for other things, and they worked fine.

More interestingly, things like “take a photo” don’t work either. Isn’t that supposed to work?

I couldn’t tell from this link if Siri support to take a photo was from the Watch or the iPhone, so I tried it directly on the iPhone, and that doesn’t work either. It opens the Camera app, but never presses the shutter. All the options under Settings > Siri > Camera are turned on.

Am I the only one with this issue? I’m running the latest versions of all the softwares.