Siri does not respond to commands on iPhone

“hey Siri” triggers Siri, but the. She cannot complete any commands



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Posted on Oct 9, 2022 7:10 AM

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Posted on Nov 16, 2022 5:28 PM

Changing to English (United Kingdom) in settings worked instantly and fixed it. The Siri feature was not been working at all for several weeks prior and would give the "Something went wrong" error every time. This is for a new-gen SE.


Went to Settings -> Siri & Search -> Language -> English (United Kingdom)



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May 11, 2023 10:47 PM in response to Merlygirl

This is absolutely ridiculous. I literally almost got in a car wreck trying to respond to something important while driving. In the age of LLM ai this is stone age-- and for all the safety features apple tries to bake into carplay, this is a worse

danger. And absolutely only this wild guess fixed it? Sounds like proof apple is falling behind with voice assistance.

Mar 24, 2024 4:36 AM in response to Merlygirl

I ve now try reset settings, reset network, language changes, phone reboot. When using a headset Siri responds, no reaction with the built in mic. My mic works fine. Tested it with Shazam playing low volume music at the other end of the room. I think this started after the last update of iOS. I am not a little annoyed with the lack of interest from apple! Sort it out!!!! Pretty please with sugar on the top. This might be the last apple product I ll ever buy!

Apr 23, 2024 2:41 AM in response to Merlygirl

For those that keep repeating the same stuff over and over, let me be clear:


1) Resetting network settings - no difference.

2) Rebooting iPhone - no difference

3) Clearing language cache, changing Siri speaking options - no difference

4) I refuse to change language to UK English - why should I? Why have language options if you can't use them - very logical!


It's a bug and Apple need to fix it. Nothing has been done about this for years and we are expected to put up with it.


May 8, 2024 9:27 PM in response to Marc007@

iPhone dummy here, I’ve mistakenly hit a wrong key and Siri has stopped working. I was getting the spinning circle and touched another wrong something and now she will not follow any commands and the circle is spinning so slowly! I changed the language to US and no help, I now have a blue audio symbol in the upper left corner. Any ideas, please? What will happened with the current problems if I set a factory reset? What will I lose, etc?



Nov 4, 2024 8:30 AM in response to pluppets

I’m with you. I need Siri, as well as other iPhone features to work correctly in the background while I’m driving or performing other tasks that require my attention, and it gets worse over time. This backwards marketing of limiting the effective life of the product to a short couple of years has me constantly reconsidering my attachment to Apple, sometimes even regretting my migration from Microsoft. Sorry for the rant

Jan 14, 2025 2:15 PM in response to Marc007@

I also refuse to change to U.K. I shouldn’t have to find a work around that ultimately is inaccurate regardless of what degree or what way. Instead of me fixing the issue by switching to U.K how about apply fix the issue like they should have already done? When 99% of people wil accept subpar lazy bs and find odd ways to fix it and accept whatever that brings with it , well of course they aren’t gonna do anything. I could easily switch to u.k. Apple could have easily fixed the issue years ago. Can someone really say of the two , the person paying for a Service should have to work around the issue rather than it being fixed as it should?

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