Why does Siri and Dictation keep stopping randomly on my iPad Pro?

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Why does Siri and Dictation keep stopping randomly on my iPad Pro?

I posted a bit ago, yet wasn’t able to post again to that thread for some reason. Siri/dictation totally stops working, randomly on my iPad Pro 13in M4 iOS 18.4.1. I totally reset my iPad and restarted it as a brand new one, not from a back up. That solved the problem for a day and a half, but it returned. The only thing that seems to work is turning Siri off, and then turning it back on again. That causes both Siri and dictation to work – but then it randomly stops again. No rhyme or reason.

just thought I’d let everyone know, and see if anyone else has heard from Apple about this issue

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Posted on Apr 23, 2025 07:49 PM

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May 14, 2025 07:34 PM in response to greekguy2

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Hi greekguy ,

I don't use Siri often though I have noticed that in settings > Siri , there is an option to

" clear Siri dictation & history " . Try hitting that , then see if it works .

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May 15, 2025 05:22 AM in response to SteelCityAnne

thanks for the suggestion, but since I did a complete reset, which in essence would clear out all of that, it didn't work.

However with the new update, 18.5, everything seems to be working for now, so perhaps the engineers fixed it

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May 19, 2025 08:45 PM in response to greekguy2

The same thing is happening to me on my iPad Pro, iOS 18.4.1. Siri has stopped working for no apparent reason 5-6 times in the last month. The WiFi is stable. When I restart my iPad, sometimes it resolves, sometimes it doesn’t; same thing with flipping the Siri “switch” off and on. Twice I had to reprogram the voice prompts from scratch. This is really getting annoying.

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May 19, 2025 08:49 PM in response to greekguy2

I’m afraid you cannot fix this issue, this happens to me on my iPad 9th generation, but for some reason does not happen on my iPhone 8, which runs on IOS 16.7. I think it’s a software problem.

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Why does Siri and Dictation keep stopping randomly on my iPad Pro?

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