Mickey and Minnie stop talking (saying the time), the "allow watch to speak time" option disappeared

Thank you Webster603,

It worked for me.

I got also frustrated about mickey and mini not telling me the time. I went to the “Accessibility” on the watch and i turned on “voice over”. Then i went back to the dail. Then i went back to the menu to shut the “voice over off. And then micky and mini were speaking to me when i taped them with ONE finger.

I think it is a Apple Bug. I hope they will fix it in the next update.

Martin.

On apple watch go to settings. Find Wi-Fi, choose the same wifi network your iPhone is connected too. Go go back to your watch face. Select Mickey or Minnie. They now speak. Tried everything else suggested and this is the only thing that worked. Apple sort of notes this, just not clear about overnight charging of apple watch and same wifi network. The iPhone and apple watch do not live on same wifi network automatically. User has to pick the wifi network for the apple watch individually. I did not have to place watch to charge to get this to work. Just picked same wifi network for the watch as described.

I found the solution. Go to apple watch app, go to accessibility and turn on the "walkie talkie tap to talk" and check on your minnie/mickey if it will work. It worked for me. And then I turned it back off and minnie is still talking. I hope I helped you.

[This is in reply to Anethkatherin (I clicked on the wrong reply).]

That is SO cool. Thanks for that tip.

I have had both of those settings on since the problem with Mickey/Minnie going 'mute' started (right after the first upgrade to 13.0--iPhone and 6.0--watch). I couldn't get any of the suggested fixes to make my Minnie start talking again. I tried everything except resetting/unpairing the watch. I just refused to do that one--many said it didn't work for them anyway. I knew eventually it would get fixed.

And it did. Yesterday, with the update to 13.1.2--iPhone and 6.1.0--watch, Mickey/Minnie immediately began talking again. The Apple engineers fixed the bug, apparently.

BUT...prior to that happening, I was playing around with my watch, trying to get the rodents to talk again, and I must have placed two fingers on another watch face I have.... because I heard it speak the time! And I thought, what was that? I couldn't believe it... and I couldn't recreate it either, because in trying I only used ONE finger.

Now you've explained it. I'm not crazy!

I love it, too.... now all my watch faces talk to me.

Actually updating to iOS 13.1.2 and WatchOS 6.0.1 is the solution.

Actually, those weren’t available when this was posted and the above steps fixed it for a ton of people until Apple rolled out big fixes.👍🏼

That's interesting.

So many different things have worked for so many different people, while for a few unfortunates, nothing works. Nothing.

It's a weird 'bug' for sure.

The updates worked for me.