Is it possible to revert to the old Siri voice?

I agree - I liked the female voice I had: Very upbeat, direct, and pleasant. The current voices are jarring and I don't like any of them (tried them all). Weird that they replaced the female voice I had with a very man-splainy male but in light of current events maybe that's the point. Or maybe Apple doesn't have a very robust human factors group any more.

I would like too revert to the old Siri in general. This new Siri is absolutely awful and can’t do a fraction of things Apple promoted. The Siri on my iPhone 14 was much better. Disappointed in the iPhone 16 pro and almost want my old iPhone back.

I hate the new Siri voice. I liked the previous female voice I had, friendly and kind. This one sounds like she has an attitude all the time. I will probably just stop using Siri. I don’t need to put up with a grumpy, smart-***, arrogant robot pushing me around.

I agree. I hate the new voices and it seems that they take up a lot of space with not one of them sounding remotely upbeat. I was using The Australian female voice on the last version because that was The most positive one I could find with the last upgrade. What can I do to get a decent voice back?

I always set timers for my breaks and Siri responds to that. Upon hearing Siri's old voice, my cats did know it was time for their treats and would come closer from wherever they were in the house! They'd learned to recognize Siri's voice as an "annoucement". Now, with the new Siri's voice (which is awful, by the way), they don't react. Shame on you, Apple. Five years of training in the trashcan. And an autistic customer completely dissatisfied with this change. :(((((

Devonian_fern wrote:

Now, with the new Siri's voice (which is awful, by the way), they don't react. Shame on you,

If your cats can learn one voice, they can learn another.

As the purpose of Siri is not to call cats, it's not surprising that Apple didn't take this possibliity into consideration when making changes. You can also be certain that there will always be changes in technology. If there weren't, we'd be using rotary phones. Sometimes we like the changes, sometimes we don't.

Therein lies the problem. If you read through the all of the replies you’ll find that many people are dissatisfied with ALL of the Siri voice options available, myself included. I HATE the Siri voice options. I will disable it.

I too, truly hate all of the new Siri voices. She now sounds a lot like an elementary school teacher that I hated (and that’s the voice that I selected because the other choices were even worse). Over the years Siri and I have established a special relationship and Apple just took it away. For shame!

Psolomon17 wrote:

I am aware there are new voices but I dislike them all. Why change things that work just fine? Annoying.

Since no one on this user to user only forum works for Apple, we can't answer any why questions. I'm sorry you find the voice annoying, but hopefully you have more important things in your life be annoyed over?

Yes. Give us back the classic voice.

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Quick answer, no. There is a larger variety of different voices now though.

The new siri sounds like she’s smoked 5 packs a day for 50 years. PLEASE find a way to revert back or add new voices stat.

Yes. if they can add voices shouldn’t they be able to add back voices?

it was a rhetorical ask but thank you for your suggestions. I really should reach out to the appropriate channel to give apple my ask.

I am very disturbed by the change in Siri’s voice with the new update. My English male used to sound upbeat and positive but now he sounds uninteresting and almost menacing! I miss my old mate :-(