Siri not responding on iPhone 16 Pro Max

I went to settings—screen time—content and privacy restriction, and I turned them on. This really helped me fix the issue. I don’t have to yell at Siri to respond or wait on Siri to answer when she does respond. Siri responds immediately now.

As of today 10/17/24 I’m still having Siri issues, the 18.0.1 patched fixed the issue temporarily but Siri is back to not listening at all. Siri hears me about 1 out of 8 prompts, it’s ridiculous, Apple get your stuff together!

I believe I have the answer. I have had the same problem and have had to restart my phone throughout the day many, many times just to get Siri to work for a little while. After doing the following, Siri seems to have been fixed permanently. Go to Settings => Siri => App Clips and then turn off Learn from App Clips.

7 Proven ways... did not match the Siri settings in iOS 18 (e.g. it is now called Siri not Siri and Searh). When we migrated the data from the 15 to the 16 the phone did not prompt to set up Siri again. Something must have been garbled in the migration as the step where Siri is set up seemed to fix the unresponsive problem. I will post if Siri goes deaf again

This was happening to me. I just got off the phone with Apple Tier 2. We changed the setting in Siri > Siri Responses from Automatic to Prefer spoken responses, and it's working fine. It is NOT happening JUST on 16 Pro Max. I checked my 2018 iPad and it was doing the same thing and not responding with voice (hardly use it any more). This Automatic setting is a new thing in iOS and iPad OS and it got set to be the default during the last update.

We will see if it sticks. I'm sure this is due to updates getting ready for the so-called AI that's supposed to come out with the 18.1 update on October 28. I am very concerned this is happening to so many people and that a lot of people are reporting that none of the fixes work for long. Best thing to do is see what happens with the 18.1 update. If it's still a big issue for many users, I suspect someone will be starting a class-action against Apple if they remain tight-lipped about it. Siri is, after all, a staple reason many people use an iPhone and should just work and never have an issue like this.

I tried all the above i contacted apple support through chat and they did the diagnostic and the hardware is fine so they suggested to book appointment with the bar at apple store,

siri only works with voice commands when i restart the iphone and it’s temporarily solution it freezes again

Would you mind to update us after Sunday, if swapping the actual device does the trick? If so I want to do the same. All these "it worked for me" responses frankly aren't helpful. I've patiently done everything under the sun to troubleshoot the issue, and the best I can get is a temporary fix, no warning when the issue will persist again. It's borderline infuriating. Thank you!

Just fixed issue in my wife’s phone by switching TALK TO SIRI setting from “Siri or hey siri ” to just “hey siri” option… then it made her do all the Siri set up. Afterwards switched back to “Siri or hey siri” and it works normal now .

I have always had mine on prefer spoken responses. I switched it to no spoken responses and then later back to prefer spoken responses, but it doesn't work. My husband's phone is having the same issue.

I'm glad it worked for you, though. Hoping a fix comes in soon. It appears that this has been going on for about a month now, seeing the dates of the posts, and they haven't fixed it, yet. :'(

I'm having this exact issue with my iPhone 16. I have all the settings correct, but nothing seems to work unless you power it off, which then seems to work for a while. You'd think they would test all features before releasing

Ok so the only way I can get it to work is to set it to set it to Hey Siri the first option just makes hre go humm so after going through all the steps and them not working i changed the setting back to Hey Siri and it works every time I hope this helps someone

Ya I think I’m about done with apple, as it is I have to upgrade at least once a year because that’s about all I get out of one before it starts glitching and freezing, and yes I’ve done all the trouble shooting, for years, and now a brand new phone and Siri doesn’t work wth.

I’ve had the same issues with my iPhone 16 Pro. The dictation in messages isn’t working properly and Siri can’t hear me. I’ve went through the hey siri set up many times. If she does hear me, she will wait for me to talk, but doesn’t hear or understand me and Siri will shut off. So whatever I was using Siri for, I will eventually have to do manually (text, get directions, message etc.) Resetting my phone will give me a temporary fix and the issues will start again after a short time. This is very frustrating please fix. iOS is updated to 18.0.1

Not impressed with my first IPhone it’s had a few glitches since I bought it including Siri not working. I’ve changed the settings and rebooted and it’s working (for now). Not holding my breath though

What I ended up doing was deleting the history from Siri and it worked fine. Seems like when I transferred all my information from my old iPhone to the 16 Pro Max something glitched.

Siri>siri and dictation history> delete Siri and dictation history.