why is siri. saying hju instead of who

No, it’s a software problem! If you change the voice from British to American, it stops doing it and instead it says what do you want to say?

Apple software has a bug in it plain and simple and it needs to be resolved.

go to settings on I phone , select Siri and intelligence - change “voice” to something other than English - eg American . Problem goes away

apple voice for English is the issue - it will now work in car

Thank you for all your help. Changed English Language to OZ. I assume Apple will be rectifying this issue👍

Wimorrison wrote:

Is everyone reporting this issue to Apple - if you don’t it will never get fixed 😒

if you are using iOS26 you can report it using the Feedback icon.

Hi @Wimorrison -

I think this is good advice and I wanted to add a reference to this standard/traditional route for providing feedback: Product Feedback - Apple.

Looking at the available options, I think this issue would fall under Hardware/iPhone (although I’m open to suggestions if someone sees a better fit).

Cheers.

Yes it’s happening on car play WhatsApp and messenger and the same in my wife’s car and phone

ever since I went with latest iOS

Hi @Davemhart -

Is HJU in your contacts list, by any chance? I’ve been having an issue where Siri confuses common words with near-homophones from my contact list (eg, mail and Mehl).

This is happening to a lot of people so it’s not the contacts in the phone that’s the problem

Let me know if it works

Same here. It's definitely the language as it clears when I install another language. But for some reason it's not re-downloading the British again so the problem remains.

Thank you 👍🏽

Your welcome mate

This HJU statement instead of Who has been bugging me with WhatsApp since I installed iOS26 public v4 last week.

I have also changed language to US English, and can't get back to UK English 🤬

You are welcome - it took hours to figure it out - there are many other problems with WhatsApp and car play - annoying