Siri not responding on iPhone 16 Pro Max

Strangely enough, I checked this when I was having problems and all the settings seem to be right, but just now when I checked again, the toggle was off. Thank you. Maybe I just missed something the last time

Yes, it was super frustrating. I got mine to eventually work as well. There’s quite a few things happening with the Apple 16 that is starting to frustrate me. That was just the first one. Now I’m dealing with talk to text not working correctly on any social media apps, amongst other things. I guess we’ll see if they can figure it out.

Siri doesn’t talk on my new iphone 16 pro max. It only flashes. So I have to be looking at the phone to get any answers from siri for my questions!

i have done everything recommended here to make it talk.

Just did everything that’s mentioned In these comments and it still wasn’t working. Finally I went to settings, talk and type to Siri and then toggle it off that setting so I switched it off and then back on and it prompted me to re-teach The sentences to my Siri and now she’s working!

Same thing on my iPhone 13. I ask Siri a question, and I only get written responces but no audio. This is still and ongoing issue on iOS 18.4.1, so it hasn’t been fixed. I’m so annoyed with Siri, it has been pretty bad and unreliable lately

Same issue here. Reboot fixes for like a couple hours. Siri does crazy things; at one point everything I said to siri got transcribed as "ha ha ha ha ha ha ...." I wish I was joking. Now, if if I manually activate siri, mic comes on but she doesn't transcribe anything, nor "hear" what I say. Until I reboot, then works again for a little while.

Losing this functionality on a new phone is another slap in the face from apple.

I remember when apple used to put quality above rapid feature releases. . .

Specifically on CarPlay, or when connected via Bluetooth to your Car, Siri will need a second or two in order to receive your sound input from the mic. So when you respond to Siri in the car, give it about 1-2 seconds of a pause before you speak.

For me it was working fine till the apple intelligence update now if i turn on the apple intelligence on the “hey siri” functionality stops working i have googled about it an all i get is restart ,airplane mode, network reset nothing helps if i turn of apple intelligence it works flawlessly but if the intelligence is on it doesn’t respond to my voice or talk back when i use the button to activate it. paying 1700€ for great quality bugs 😮‍💨

Yes mate I’ve had every iPhone since the 3GS last iPhone I had before the 16 promax was a 14 promax and it ran brilliantly really smooth and fast now they’re 16 pro Max the battery drains rapidly. It gets really hot. The Siri function does not work it also randomly picks songs on my Apple HomePod and plays them. It talks to my watch about things I have no idea of.

I have 2 phones 1 iPhone for business (since 1st generation) my other phones have been androids, personal use Iam Seriously thinking of going to Samsung for both as this new 16Pro blah blah blah top of the line is costing me business because of how much I need to be able to dictate. Siri no longer works and this phone is 2 1/2 months old.

My mom has had this issue with her iphone 16. It's brand new. She thought it was a faulty phone, so she took it back and got a different one. This new one is doing the same exact thing. Talk and text also doesn't work, she'll say something and it will just type, "no" once she's done talking. She turns the phone off and on and it works for a little while before acting up again.

There seems to always be an issue with Siri in iphone 16 pro max. Now it is connected to Apple AI and ask for your ‘precise location’! Why would using siri have anything to do with Apple trying to find my location. Have tried all tips in the community and still siri doesn’t work. After getting OS18.5 works but only responds in typing. What happened to the voice?

Settings, scroll down, Siri, turn on Talk to Siri. This fixed it for me

EXACT same issue since out of the box on my iPhone 16 Pro. I've tried all of the suggestions listed here. The only thing that helps is powering off and back on, but for me that's been a temporary fix and it goes right back to not working. Even having issues with voice to text in messages and when I activate Siri by holding side button it still doesn't respond at times. Super annoying. Hoping there's an update soon to resolve it.