Siri does not respond to commands on iPhone

Changing to English (United Kingdom) in settings worked instantly and fixed it. The Siri feature was not been working at all for several weeks prior and would give the "Something went wrong" error every time. This is for a new-gen SE.

Went to Settings -> Siri & Search -> Language -> English (United Kingdom)

Such a strange solution, but I think changing the language to English UK fixed my issue, too! I changed it back to American and it stopped working, but worked again when I changed it back to UK. I’ll take it! Thanks for the suggestion.

This is absolutely ridiculous. I literally almost got in a car wreck trying to respond to something important while driving. In the age of LLM ai this is stone age-- and for all the safety features apple tries to bake into carplay, this is a worse

danger. And absolutely only this wild guess fixed it? Sounds like proof apple is falling behind with voice assistance.

Ok so this has a been a problem for the last few months for me. I try to access Siri and she will say things like “ uh huh “ or “ still trying “. I would see this circle spinning the entire time and then it would say “ error please try again “. Sometimes it would open and then immediately close on its own. I tried resetting Siri and that did nothing. So today I was reading where people said to change the language to English UK. I reset Siri yet again and this time I changed the language. To my surprise it’s actually working

For those that keep repeating the same stuff over and over, let me be clear:

1) Resetting network settings - no difference.

2) Rebooting iPhone - no difference

3) Clearing language cache, changing Siri speaking options - no difference

4) I refuse to change language to UK English - why should I? Why have language options if you can't use them - very logical!

It's a bug and Apple need to fix it. Nothing has been done about this for years and we are expected to put up with it.

With LLM artificial intelligence coming forward in google facebook and microsoft products-- yeah, there's nothing to understand here. We shouldn't have a million users randomly testing other siri languages to find a fix. It's a bug.

Curious if anyone else is experiencing Siri misunderstanding spoken words you’ve used almost daily.. questions seem to be pulling the incorrect answers even though the screen shows the correct wording!

go to settings>general>reset>and reset network settings.

I am having the same issue. Resetting the network settings did not solve the issue.

force reboot your device Force reboot device - Apple Support

This has fixed my issue !!

one moment

still on it

something went wrong, Pl try again

I changed Siri Responses from automatic to always speaking. That did it. Changing the country did not.

I ve now try reset settings, reset network, language changes, phone reboot. When using a headset Siri responds, no reaction with the built in mic. My mic works fine. Tested it with Shazam playing low volume music at the other end of the room. I think this started after the last update of iOS. I am not a little annoyed with the lack of interest from apple! Sort it out!!!! Pretty please with sugar on the top. This might be the last apple product I ll ever buy!

I have had Siri "Something Went Wrong" issues for the last 2 years. Changing to British language from American and even changing sub-voices does sod-all.

My issue is with Homekit devices and I'm using iPod Mini as the Hub.

4 Meross smart plugs:

1 called TV

1 called Chair

1 called PC

1 called Telly (to distinguish between the first one called TV above)

If I use a simple command like "Siri, Chair off" it works and the same for "Siri chair on".

The issue are when you say something extremely complicated and hard to understand 🙄 like:

"Siri, turn the telly off in 20 minutes" !

Using any such time-based requests does not work.

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iPhone dummy here, I’ve mistakenly hit a wrong key and Siri has stopped working. I was getting the spinning circle and touched another wrong something and now she will not follow any commands and the circle is spinning so slowly! I changed the language to US and no help, I now have a blue audio symbol in the upper left corner. Any ideas, please? What will happened with the current problems if I set a factory reset? What will I lose, etc?