Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Raise to talk not working
- Thread starter gorkt
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Gotta act quick, 0 hesitation. Also try to tongle it on and off.
I basically had to repair and restore from back up after upgrading iOS 5 to my 3 LTE to get much of the new stuff to work.
I basically had to repair and restore from back up after upgrading iOS 5 to my 3 LTE to get much of the new stuff to work.
Throughout the beta process and now with the final release I find that it's never worked well. To make it worse, I've noticed many times where I'll look at my watch and Siri has been recording a bunch of what I said as if it was doing the raise to talk.
I find that I have to be quite close to the mic and talk relatively loudly into it, whereas when initiating it with 'Hey, Siri' I can whisper and it still gets picked up.
I find that I have to be quite close to the mic and talk relatively loudly into it, whereas when initiating it with 'Hey, Siri' I can whisper and it still gets picked up.
Mine works great. Like others have said, you have to do it as soon as the screen lights up. Its worked pretty flawlessly for me thusfar
That’s not necessary, in so much as the two work together. I think it just takes practice to get right...
Odd it would not work for me until I turned it off and now it works every time. You do have to hold it closer and speak a little louder than you do when using Hey Siri. Probably to be sure you are speaking to the watch.
EDIT: You are correct. Just cut back on and it is still working. I think I also had to do a restart yesterday to get working. So that may have been my issue.
I have a series 3 and raise to speak selected in settings and absolutely cannot get it to work. I’ve tried all the suggestion here including turning off “say ‘hey Siri’”, turning both settings (raise to speak and hey Siri) on and off several times, rebooting my watch, etc and nothing works. Of course, “hey Siri” still works. There is definitely a problem here. I know that it doesn’t take a lot of effort to say “hey Siri”, but the biggest advantage of raise to speak is that it doesn’t activate Siri on my iPad, iPhone and iMac. It’s irritating sitting at my desk at my iMac with my phone and tablet open and all devices respond to a Siri inquiry.
I found that you have to have the watch pretty close to your mouth and then it works every time. Simply raising your arm and speaking will not activate it.
I find that you can’t whisper or talk low. You have to speak in a normal tone. Like you are having a normal conversation.
Of course. I've been looking on the phone in the watch app's settings.
Meanwhile, I tried again while I was making dinner, and it worked just fine.
You have to bring it close to your face and speak directly into the mic for it to work — Doesn’t need to be super load.
