Siri Not Working for Some iOS 18.1 Beta Users

[MacRumors]

Some iPhone owners who have the iOS 18.1 beta installed appear to be experiencing issues with the Siri personal assistant, which has stopped working sometime over the course of the last couple of days.

There are multiple reports from people experiencing issues on social media, as noted by 9to5Mac, as well as complaints on Reddit and the MacRumors forums. Impacted users are seeing a "Siri Not Available" banner when attempting to use Siri.

The banner says that "Data for Siri is downloading" or that users need to "Connect to Wi-Fi to complete Siri download." Either way, no download completes as it seems to get stuck at 99 percent, and Siri remains unavailable.

Not all users who are running iOS 18.1 are impacted, and restarting does not fix the problem. Turning off Apple Intelligence allows the old version of Siri to work, but toggling it off and on again also does not address the issue.

It is not clear what happened with Siri, but it is worth noting that iOS 18.1 is a beta and there are often bugs in betas, which is why caution should be used when installing beta software. Apple will likely push out a fix for the problem in the near future.

For now, if you need Siri access and are running iOS 18.1, temporarily turn off Apple Intelligence.

Article Link: Siri Not Working for Some iOS 18.1 Beta Users

 

[redbeard331]

Giving me terminator vibes.

 

[now i see it]

Ok, who doesn’t think this is funny?

 

[sziehr]

I mean that is why they call it beta

 

[dannyyankou]

There’s probably less dramatic fixes, but this happened to me a few weeks ago and resetting all settings fixed it.

 

[JilzVT]

Could've stopped this headline after the first 3 words, no?

 

[Greenie80]

I actually just had this issue twice within the last few days. A restart of my iPhone 15 Pro Max fixed this issue.

 

[carswell]

How do they know?
/s

 

[Antes]

Vision Pro has this issue. Just stuck at 99%

 

[jwm]

Maybe beta 4 is imminent!

 

[RenegadfeMonste]

I have had this happen twice now on my M4 iPad Pro. A reboot resolved the issue for a while for me before it returned a second time. So far it's still working after my second reboot.

 

[rjjacobson]

I actually just had this issue twice within the last few days. A restart of my iPhone 15 Pro Max fixed this issue.

Does not work on my 15 PM or M4 iPad resetting it does nothing. On the Apple seed site feedback reports apple knows about our problem and fix is coming in terms of new update soon

 

[zobby]

Happening to me since last night. Its beta. I’m sure they’ll fix it soon. I’ll keep checking continuously until then obviously. 🙂

 

[rjjacobson]

Maybe beta 4 is imminent!

From what i got from my feedback reports yes they say many seeing this and an update will soon be available

 

[PhoenixAnhart]

You mean to tell me software that is still deep in testing could have technical issues?!?!?

Unrelated to this post, I installed the Release Candidates of iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia today and am quite pleased with the lack of any issues (so far).

 

[macfacts]

First Impressions. Going to be terrible when first-time iPhone owners get their iPhone 16 and can't even use a 10 year old feature.

 

[chrono1081]

You mean to tell me software that is still deep in testing could have technical issues?!?!?

Unrelated to this post, I installed the Release Candidates of iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia today and am quite please with the lack of any issues (so far).

Both have been rock solid for me. I'm loving the new phone screen mirroring.

 

[brar.arsh]

First Impressions. Going to be terrible when first-time iPhone owners get their iPhone 16 and can't even use a 10 year old feature.

Why would they be on an 18.1 beta if they are first-time owners of iPhones?

 

[mikelets456]

"... Apple will likely push out a fix for the problem in the near future."

LOL----our technician will be there some time between Monday through Friday---Thanks for your patience....

 

[mikelets456]

First Impressions. Going to be terrible when first-time iPhone owners get their iPhone 16 and can't even use a 10 year old feature.

Siri (still) works as normal when you turn off "Apple intelligence"....

 

[PsykX]

In the final version of iOS 18 in French Canada, Siri "works" (as it has always "worked"), although it cuts the middle part of most English words (i.e. song names) 😅

It happened since the last two betas, and now it's going public. Unless, perhaps it's just my iPhone ?

 

[chrono1081]

First Impressions. Going to be terrible when first-time iPhone owners get their iPhone 16 and can't even use a 10 year old feature.

This is the 18.1 beta. 18 doesn't have this feature yet and is in release candidate stage. 18.1 wont be released until October.

 

[Rychiar]

Vision Pro has this issue. Just stuck at 99%

how'd you get AI siri on vision pro?

 

[klasma]

I’ve never not had issues with Siri.

 

[Remy149]

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First Impressions. Going to be terrible when first-time iPhone owners get their iPhone 16 and can't even use a 10 year old feature.

This is only happening in the 18.1 beta. Users of new phones will be on iOS 18 unless they where running beta on previous device.