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Text dictation requires Siri now? (after update)

Mojopin

Mojopin

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So, I noticed that after the new update that dictating text now requires Siri to be enabled on my phone. This wasn't the case previously as I never turn Siri on and dictation on the watch was working flawlessly.

Did anyone else notice this, and does enabling Siri on my phone (keeping Hey Siri off) drain my battery faster on both devices?
 
"Hey Siri" on your phone only works when it is plugged in [unless you are jailbroken and enabled that tweak]. Therefore it is not a battery drain.
 
Mojopin said:
So, I noticed that after the new update that dictating text now requires Siri to be enabled on my phone. This wasn't the case previously as I never turn Siri on and dictation on the watch was working flawlessly.

Did anyone else notice this, and does enabling Siri on my phone (keeping Hey Siri off) drain my battery faster on both devices?
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Turning off Siri on your phone does turn it off on the watch but shouldn't affect dictation, but I haven't tried it that way. The Hey Siri only works on the watch, the phone would have to be plugged in. There's little if any battery drain with Siri unless you're asking it dozens of questions every day that she has to access a network connection to answer.
 
papbot said:
Turning off Siri on your phone does turn it off on the watch but shouldn't affect dictation, but I haven't tried it that way. The Hey Siri only works on the watch, the phone would have to be plugged in. There's little if any battery drain with Siri unless you're asking it dozens of questions every day that she has to access a network connection to answer.
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Thanks for the feedback all. This question came about when I tried to use dictation to reply to a text after I updated the new OS. I never enable Siri on my phone and a pop up message came up on the watch that said I had to enable it to use dictation. I thought it was odd
 
I'd try disabling Siri on my phone to check bot you get a warning about some other things including the watch. It may well be that you have to have it enabled for dictation. There's really no reason not to. But someone else may try it and let you know.
 
papbot said:
I'd try disabling Siri on my phone to check bot you get a warning about some other things including the watch. It may well be that you have to have it enabled for dictation. There's really no reason not to. But someone else may try it and let you know.
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Here's there message I get if I don't have Siri enabled on the phone

 
yozh said:
Ok so I`m not crazy. I just made another thread with same question. I always had Siri off, never use it and dictation was working fine. Now it doesnt let me dictate with out Siri this sucks ! Dictation on iPhone it self works with out Siri.
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Yeah I'm surprised they changed it if it was fine before the update
 
In the glance mode are you not supposed to be able manually start the heart rate monitor, I thought I was able to do this before.
 
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