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Q: Siri Won't Launch Apps

I upgraded my new iPad (iPad 3) to IOS 6 and everything went well except Siri won’t launch apps. When asked say “launch Facebook” Siri responds with “it doesn’t look like you have an app named Facebook” and I get the same results when trying to launch any app. Siri works for everything else it just won’t launch apps. Any ideas? Thanks.

iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 20, 2012 10:16 PM

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  • by John@Dallas,

    John@Dallas John@Dallas Mar 20, 2013 8:10 PM in response to DB Hans
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    Mar 20, 2013 8:10 PM in response to DB Hans

    I have the same problem with Siri not being able to launch any apps. I have iphone 5 and IOS 6.1.2. I recall that I did a sync or backup to icloud and then doing a backup to my macbook using itunes. I think that this might have created the problem.

     

    Thank you for the solution of deleting the two cache files and restarting. This did fix the issue for me.

  • by Anil Ramlochan,

    Anil Ramlochan Anil Ramlochan Nov 7, 2013 6:07 PM in response to DB Hans
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    Nov 7, 2013 6:07 PM in response to DB Hans

    Hi guys, I reset my network then switched of Siri and restarted the phone. Played around with voice control for a bit then re-enabled siri. This fixed my problem!

  • by gtabroker,

    gtabroker gtabroker Nov 9, 2013 9:46 PM in response to DB Hans
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    Nov 9, 2013 9:46 PM in response to DB Hans

    TURN OFF SIRI

    TURN ON SIRI

     

    PROBLEM SOLVED.

  • by yourekillingme,

    yourekillingme yourekillingme Dec 6, 2013 3:42 PM in response to gtabroker
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    Dec 6, 2013 3:42 PM in response to gtabroker

    I have turn on cell data, turned off cell data, turned on wifi, turned off wifi, enabled siri, disabled siri, hard rebooted, all in different combinations and different orders. NOTHING HAS WORKED I just got this phone today. Please help! Why is this happening? Why?

  • by vngate09,

    vngate09 vngate09 Feb 4, 2014 4:23 PM in response to DB Hans
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    Feb 4, 2014 4:23 PM in response to DB Hans

    I had the same problem too, but then I turned Siri off, turned off the iPhone, turned the iPhone back on, and then I turned Siri back on. I tried this on the iPad too and now they both work fine. :) Good luck.

  • by syahirul91,

    syahirul91 syahirul91 Feb 17, 2014 11:28 AM in response to DB Hans
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    Feb 17, 2014 11:28 AM in response to DB Hans

    Have you jailbreaked your device before?and you ask siri to launch cydia app and suddenly all your apps cannot be launched through siri?i have this same kind of problem but now it is solved.First you need to go into iFileand find these 2 files/var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-045.csstore /var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist

    Once you find them don't delete them just in case change them to /var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-045.csstore.bak /var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist.bak

    This basically renders them invisible, you can go and delete them later, always good to keep a backup

    Once you have changed the name back out to Springboard and do a full reboot. Upon reboot you will notice all your stock apps are there and your installed cydia apps but NO appstore apps. DONT PANIC

    Just sit back and chill as iOS will slowly rebuild your apps on the springboard. I have over 300 apps on mine so it took a couple of minutes. Once all your apps are showing give Siri a test.. Should work perfect.

    Then go back into iFileand removed the filesyou changed to .bak

    Done.. lemmie know how you go

  • by bwoods,

    bwoods bwoods Jun 22, 2014 6:55 AM in response to syahirul91
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    Jun 22, 2014 6:55 AM in response to syahirul91

    Thanks! This was the solution. So I take from from your answer that using Siri to open Cydia could cause these problems?

  • by johnfromplantation,

    johnfromplantation johnfromplantation Dec 22, 2015 9:05 AM in response to DB Hans
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    Dec 22, 2015 9:05 AM in response to DB Hans

    I had the same issue in iOS 9.2 after getting a new iPhone 5s which I restored from iCloud.

    My solution was to:

    - Turn off Siri,

    - Restart iPhone

    - Turn on Siri.

     

    Let's see how long it lasts.

  • by milotjuh,

    milotjuh milotjuh Feb 9, 2016 6:51 AM in response to DB Hans
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    Feb 9, 2016 6:51 AM in response to DB Hans

    Same here on 6s on 9.2.1--Siri cannot find anything on my phone, but can pull online info. A reset network settings fixes the issues, but as soon as i turn on wifi the problem returns.

  • by cooldude41,

    cooldude41 cooldude41 Jun 22, 2016 6:05 AM in response to DB Hans
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    Jun 22, 2016 6:05 AM in response to DB Hans

    go home Tap Settings > General > Keyboard > and turn off “Enable Dictation”  for a few seconds turn it on and boom

     

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