iPhone iPhone 5 Siri Not Working

Just wait, I have had this happen many times on the beta, shut down and turn back on....wait and later it's back working, could be 15 min, a half hour, could be an hour.

Some times it comes up and double tones when you click, sometimes she just says she is sorry, I find it happens after coming out of certain apps or doing certain things.

It's beta, I have 2 phones, so I just use one for the beta, I would never want to use a beta on a phone I had to count on.

It is going to do these things, it gets reported by testers and hopefully resolved in the next beta. I assume your not a Dev, if so you probably are breaking some sort of rules I would guess, although seems everyone is doing it. I would guess Apple Care would do nothing at all for you but show you how to downgrade.

i had some issues with siri aswell. are you sure the problem is related to ios 7? on my phone it was a problem caused by a defective noise cancelling microphone which kinda filtered my voice so nothing got picked up by the mic.
got it replaced by apple care

edit: does the problem also occur when you're shooting a video or making calls over the speaker?

I asked Siri to remind me at 4 today and it showed me saying something in Spanish.

It worked the second time.

BrotherAnon said:

I am a dev, and I have tried everything, so I guess I should go to Apple and see what they can tell me.

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No you don't go to Apple. You file a bug report and wait until it gets fixed. Such is life with a BETA!

VSMacOne said:

Such is life with a BETA!

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After 3 years, siri isn't beta- it's vaporware. It's a useless piece of crap used for marketing hype only.

BrotherAnon said:

pulling out SIM

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That has nothing to do with Siri or any bugs.

BrotherAnon said:

I find it quite useful while I am driving and using my headphones when my phone is in my pocket.
Anyway, does anyone know if there is one last thing to try that I may have overlooked, before going to Apple?

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Restoring the phone completely (Go into setting and click erase data and restore) if you've not already tried that. As for bringing it to Apple they won't touch it if it's a software issue and it's running the beta. I'm bringing my phone in tomorrow for a hardware problem and I called them to make sure it was ok if I brought it with iOS 7 and they said it's fine as long as it is NOT directly related to the software, which in your case it is.

Pietro

BrotherAnon said:

I find it quite useful while I am driving and using my headphones when my phone is in my pocket.
Anyway, does anyone know if there is one last thing to try that I may have overlooked, before going to Apple?

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There will be no point in going to Apple with IOS 7 installed. They won't help you with beta software regardless of having AppleCare of being a Dev. You will have to go back to IOS 6 which will probably fix the problem anyway.

BrotherAnon said:

I am a dev, and I have tried everything, so I guess I should go to Apple and see what they can tell me.

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They can't and won't tell you anything.

Developers have their own support. Check the portal for how to reach them

Luis Ortega said:

After 3 years, siri isn't beta- it's vaporware. It's a useless piece of crap used for marketing hype only.

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I was actually talking about iOS 7 beta. And Siri has its problems but it's pretty useful. iOS 7 is going to make it even better!

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BrotherAnon said:

But I do not believe it is a bug with the beta. It was working fine, then out of the blue, stopped. I mean, I even tried restoring to 6.1.4.....

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Siri has started acting up on my iPhone 5 running iOS 7 beta 2 just out of the blue. I have to give it a couple of tries and then it works again. But I think it's the beta. If you switched back to iOS 6 and it's still not working then you should take it to Apple.

I am having the same issue. Tried a completely clean install, tried restore from backup, nada.

Anyone want to volunteer to downgrade to iOS 6 and report back?

I did a Reset All Settings and now Siri works.

thesheleys said:

I did a Reset All Settings and now Siri works.

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Still, it have some problems controlling the system events, like brightness control or flashlight. Anyone else having the same issues?

martinocando said:

Still, it have some problems controlling the system events, like brightness control or flashlight. Anyone else having the same issues?

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True. I still have that problem but for me Siri and Dictation wasn't working at all so the Reset fixed that.

Anyone else have a completely non-functioning Siri? I have found that I can get Siri to work through a bluetooth headset, but it does nothing when using the built-in microphone.

brianld said:

Anyone else have a completely non-functioning Siri? I have found that I can get Siri to work through a bluetooth headset, but it does nothing when using the built-in microphone.

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After a while, I had some problems with Siri in beta 2, but now in Beta 3 (OTA update) I haven't been able to use Siri at all.... Dictation doesn't work either, btw.

iPhone 5, Beta 3. I dictated a message to my wife, which was accepted by Siri and seemed to send, only to find out (after i'd finished driving) it wasn't sent...no sign of a text ever being sent.

Siri just stopped working for me last night in iOS7 beta 3 too. All of a sudden after it was all working just fine.

I did reboots, resetting all settings, loading a previous back up, nothing helped.

Any idea? Is this a Siri server to iOS7 communications error or what?

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Ok seems this trick did it: Changing Siri language to something other than English, testing it, then putting back to English. Working again.

brianld said:

Anyone else have a completely non-functioning Siri? I have found that I can get Siri to work through a bluetooth headset, but it does nothing when using the built-in microphone.

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Hate to bring back a dead thread, but it seems like the timing of the (possible) beginning of my problem lines up pretty close with when this topic was being discussed.

I stepped on my phone cracking the LCD about the time this thread was created (so I can't really say when this actually started happening) and recently got around to putting a new screen on it and reactivating it. Upon getting the phone working again, I noticed a few things that weren't working including Siri/keyboard dictation and others (which did start working again).

Assuming it was just bugs associated with the outdated Beta, I decided to just do a full reset, no luck. Downgraded from iOS 7 Beta 4 (+/- 1) to iOS 6.1.4 and did a full reset again to find that Siri, keyboard dictation, and maps still did not work correctly. (I do recognize that the gps could be due to damage from stepping on it or opening it up. However, while not perfectly, google maps does work.)

I left 6.1.4 loaded for a week or so because I thought that downgrading solved most of my problems. But now I'm thinking most of the "issues" I was having were just due to the fact that Sprint is awful and I had just reactivated the phone.

I sort of just ignored the issue for a few days thinking it may be the server or Sprint or something else, but finally, still with no change to Siri or keyboard usability of the microphone, I decided to upgrade to iOS 7 Beta 6 yesterday.

Still not working.

Other apps like Shazam are able to use the mic as well as native apps including camera and voice memos. Didn't check FaceTime, but I assume it works too. Seems like my problem is isolated to Siri and the keyboard dictation.

Any ideas?