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Siri not reading my texts

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sadcaper

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Jun 28, 2007
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When I've gotten a new text I ask Siri to read it and it appears she understands my request because she goes silent for a bit and then asks if I want to read it again or reply. It's weird. Everything else is working great with Siri.

Anything else I need to do so she'll read my texts?
 
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You have to wait 5-8 seconds for it to read it you I've noticed.
 
macingman said:
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You have to wait 5-8 seconds for it to read it you I've noticed.
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Siri reads mine almost instantly...
 
johna1234 said:
hmm cant get this to work, message preview on, but not working.
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yeah, my preview is on, and it's not working either. I tried the accessibility, and that changes the finger gestures. If I have to do that, I will leave it off
 
chris459 said:
Go to settings notifications and make sure under messages you have show preview on
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As with others here, I've got show preview on, but it's not reading the messages to me. Anyone have any idea how to get Siri to actually read a text message to you? Maybe I'm just not activating it the correct way? When I get a text, do I need to hold down the home button to activate Siri and then she'll read it to me?

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Nevermind. I figured it out. You just have to hold down the home button to activate Siri and then tell her to read you the text message and she does. Very nice!
 
Hankster said:
If you already read the message it won't read it. Siri only reads new unread messages.
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This.

I also wish she could read messages/emails to me. For example, if I open up an email (while driving...shhh, don't tell) and see that it's longer than I though, I'd like Siri to read it to me while I keep my eyes on the road.
 
See how at the end right when she got a new message from Sandy Chang it read to it to her without her saying anything?

How does mine do that? Mine won't
 
nfl46 said:
Siri can you read you text messages without you saying, "Read my text messages."

You have to enabled it though.

General
Accessibility
VoiceOver
Speak Notifications

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLR_-9tvq6A

Go to 1 minute mark.
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The problem with doing it this way is by turning on VoiceOver, you enable Siri to read every button you touch and you have to double-tap to open anything. If you just hold down the home button and tell Siri to read, she'll read the text without all those other problems.

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AndrewR23 said:
See how at the end right when she got a new message from Sandy Chang it read to it to her without her saying anything?

How does mine do that? Mine won't
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As far as I can tell, Siri will only do that if you enable VoiceOver in Accessibility as mentioned above. But then you've got the problems I listed above. The easiest way, as far as I can find, is to just activate Siri and ask her to read.
 
KentuckyHouse said:
The problem with doing it this way is by turning on VoiceOver, you enable Siri to read every button you touch and you have to double-tap to open anything. If you just hold down the home button and tell Siri to read, she'll read the text without all those other problems.

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As far as I can tell, Siri will only do that if you enable VoiceOver in Accessibility as mentioned above. But then you've got the problems I listed above. The easiest way, as far as I can find, is to just activate Siri and ask her to read.
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Got it. That video is false ad! Just kidding but still, it should read it right away like the video.
 
i enabled the notifications and now it reads it but that is stupid, i don't want my text to pop up on my screen but i do want it to read it to me
 
fdot said:
i enabled the notifications and now it reads it but that is stupid, i don't want my text to pop up on my screen but i do want it to read it to me
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Yes, this is indeed stupid. I want Siri to read texts while I'm driving, but that doesn't mean that I want previews to pop up for anyone to read while my phone is sitting on my desk. I get that Apple is trying to preserve privacy here, but the logic seems a bit flawed.
 
Siri wasn't reading my messages. I turned on "Show Preview" in Notifications>Messages and it worked. I turned it off again and it still works. I guess turning it on and off fixed the problem.
 
Sort of solution

The way I done it was to click on triple click home screen button through accessibility. You can then choose toggle voice over. This means I don't need to keep going into settings to turn it on and off. Plus means I don't need to suffer the double clicking everything.

Hope it sort of helps.
 
Like many have said the way to fix this is turning preview on for text messages. I had this same problem and kept trying it on/off. However, I do find it inconvenient that I have to turn on the preview to have Siri read it. I really don't want one for the other, I'd rather have both. I don't want to leave my phone unattended with a text message that's visible. Sounds like a bug or something they should work on.
 
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