Offline Siri

[ipedro]

There was a mention that parts of Siri, such as voice recogtion and dictation, would be available offline in iOS 14. To those who’ve installed the beta, have you noticed any other offline features? Can you can control AirPods playback and volume with Siri when offline (i.e. in the subway)? Any other basic functions like asking Siri to perform a calculation or set a timer work offline?

 

[jonobin]

Let's hope so

 

[yanksfan114]

Nope. Just tells you Siri isn’t available because you’re offline.

 

[NT1440]

Nope. Just tells you Siri isn’t available because you’re offline. View attachment 927146

Do we know that offline Siri is supposed to be part of the beta from day one? I’ve seen plenty of features get added in later Betas over the years but I don’t know if Apple said anything explicitly about this one.

 

[ipedro]

Nope. Just tells you Siri isn’t available because you’re offline. View attachment 927146

Thanks for checking. They did say that speech dictation would be off-line. Does that at least work?

 

[JRobert@macrumors]

Dictation is working offline, at least in iPadOS 14 on iPad 6th gen.