Hey Siri on Apple Watch slow after update?

[Mikael H]

The last couple of months - since watchOS 8.4, I guess - Hey Siri on the watch has been dog slow on my Series 4.

I used to be able to start an exercise or set a timer with no pause between summoning Siri and giving the command, but now there’s a several seconds pause while something or other loads or gets ready in some other way. As I’m still not used to that - nor do I want to become used to it - I keep speaking, resulting in Siri catching only the latter part of my command if at all.

Is this common? What are the most likely troubleshooting steps?


Edited to add: I just tried, and summoning Siri by pressing the Digital Crown works just as fast as usual - but naturally it’s a lot less convenient.

 

[BigBlur]

Based on your title, I’m guessing you are summoning her with “Hey Siri”. Have you tried using the ‘Raise to Speak’ feature? (Raise your wrist to your mouth and start saying a command…no need to say “Hey Siri”.) Is that slow as well?

 

[Mikael H]

Based on your title, I’m guessing you are summoning her with “Hey Siri”. Have you tried using the ‘Raise to Speak’ feature? (Raise your wrist to your mouth and start saying a command…no need to say “Hey Siri”.) Is that slow as well?

Thanks for the tip,
That actually worked well, meaning my issue isn't with Siri performance in general but there specifically is something wrong with the "Listen for Hey Siri" function in my watch.

I've turned off listening for Hey Siri and will try Raise to Speak for a while and see if it's good enough at filtering out false positives. If it is, I'm golden, otherwise I guess I'll return to this thread.

 

[jav6454]

I have a S4 and haven't noticed any slowdowns.

 

[Roadster Lewis]

I have noticed this on my Watch 3.

 

[Takeo]

Found this thread because I'm having this issue now with my Series 7 and Watch OS 9. First of all, raise to speak has only ever worked for me 50% of the time so I never bother with it, I just say "hey siri" every time. And that's always been bulletproof. But since Watch OS 9 I find "hey siri" only works maybe 25% of the time. Sometimes I have to try maybe 3 or more times for her to respond.

 

[iBreatheApple]

Thanks for the tip,
That actually worked well, meaning my issue isn't with Siri performance in general but there specifically is something wrong with the "Listen for Hey Siri" function in my watch.

I've turned off listening for Hey Siri and will try Raise to Speak for a while and see if it's good enough at filtering out false positives. If it is, I'm golden, otherwise I guess I'll return to this thread.

I’m use raise to Siri a lot but I also just hold down the crown. Something is wrong or changed since updated in that if I hold it down while the screen is not “awake” it doesn’t work and I have to press the Digital Crown twice and hold it the second time for it to work. Maybe this is to prevent accidental pushes but apparently I use Siri often without my watch completely facing my way.