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Announce Messages with Siri Control Center Toggle Missing
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Please consider sending bug feedback to Apple about this. Here’s the link https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch.html
Nope. It still comes and goes for me. And when I look at the Siri accent info on the watch it will often just say “waiting to download.” The Series 6 does not seem to be retaining the Siri voice assets for some reason. And it appears without those local voice assets the Announce Messages with Siri feature becomes unavailable - this the missing icon. If you haven’t already done so please submit feedback to Apple here https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch.html
What I don’t get is why it worked fine on my Series 4. And it still works fine on my wife’s Series 4. It just doesn’t on my Series 6. I have set up as new etc.
I wonder if it is related somehow to a borked iCloud config with Siri. If I had the time to troubleshoot I would link it to my wife’s iCloud account and see if the problem persisted. Some of the Siri iCloud problems are very opaque. For instance, a few weeks ago, Siri kept telling my wife when she told Siri to call “my husband” that Siri didn’t know who her husband was. Siri was recognizing the relationship that previously she had no issue with. So my wife would tell Siri which contact was her husband. Siri would confirm and then on the next try would say again that she didn’t know who the husband was. I realized that my wife had a middle name field in her contact card for me. On a hunch, we deleted the middle name from the contact card and then Siri would properly recognize my contact card as my wife’s “husband” when she directed Siri to call the husband.
Updated to WatchOS 7.2 last night. This morning, the icon was back. We'll see if it sticks around...
I had the above issue as well. In my case was related to how Outlook was also pulling in contacts. Once I stopped using Outlook from work to import contacts, the problem was resolved (in my case).
Mine was not after 7.2. I had to change Siri accent again and then force reset the watch. Then it came back. Like you, I am not holding my breath that it stays beyond a day or so.
The positive factor this time is that I did not need to mess with siri voices or anything. I was just living without the icon when lo and behold it reappeared naturally after the update. Bummer that was not the case for you.
Still don’t see the option on my watch after updating. I am not going to go through the hassle of downloading the Siri voices again, only to have the announce icon show and disappear like before.
Mine seems to have arrived for good since the update to watchOS 7.2.
I fooled with it again last night and got it to appear. I used the watch today on cellular and it actually worked all day. I’m shocked and hoping it stays!