Walkie-Talkie not working

[someguy]

My wife and I each have an iPhone X and Watch Series 4 (44mm, WiFi only) and we've not been able to successfully use the Walkie-Talkie app for months. All devices have all available updates installed, no beta versions.

We've tried repairing our Watches, removing and adding each other as friends, and reinstalling the Walkie-Talkie app. We've also tried turning off WiFi on all devices to try and rule out any local network issues at home.

When one of us initiates a connection, the other Watch will chirp, but then the Watches will both fail to connect. At no point does any audio message arrive on the other Watch.

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[akash.nu]

This happened to me in the past but a reset worked. Have you tried that?

 

[Itinj24]

Walkie-Talkie works through FaceTime Audio. Do you both have FaceTime enabled?

 

[Ledgem]

I have a similar issue. I have always been able to use it without much difficulty with two family members who live thousands of miles away, but I recently bought my wife an Apple Watch and we're having no end of issues with Walkie-Talkie. It still works with my other family members, but I have only once been able to get it to connect to her where we could both hear each other.

Something else weird happened around the time I tried to add her: another family member who does not have an Apple Watch was listed as an invited friend, as was an unknown and incomplete phone number. They always reappear even when I delete the invites (including from my phone), and sometimes they're even shown as available contacts (despite deleting them over and over). Stranger still, my wife earned a badge and when I sent a message to her from my Apple Watch with one of those pre-made congratulatory messages, it sent it to the family member without an Apple Watch. (Although in writing this, I think I sorted that one out: I had my wife's "home" phone listed as her old number, which is also listed as the number for the other family member... it's bizarre that the Watch would get this so badly wrong, but I'm guessing that's how it happened.)

Annoyingly, after I added her my Watch's battery drain amped up to the point where I could not get through the day without it dying, even though usually I'd end my day with about 40% charge remaining. Unpairing and re-pairing the Watch, and signing out of and back into my iCloud account on my phone, resulted in the battery drain improving... but only slightly.

Hopefully my issues are purely related to having needed to clean up my wife's Contact card...

 

[someguy]

This happened to me in the past but a reset worked. Have you tried that?

Yes, unfortunately it didn't seem to do the trick.

Walkie-Talkie works through FaceTime Audio. Do you both have FaceTime enabled?

Yes. We both went back through our settings and disabled/enabled everything again. Basically we set it all up from scratch, and I even reset my Watch back to factory settings. We had exactly the same issue after doing all this.

Hopefully my issues are purely related to having needed to clean up my wife's Contact card...

This is an interesting. I'll check the contact card for my wife as well and see if any changes to it help.