iOS 13, Siri making calls on speaker phone by default.

I have this issue and the work around stated by another poster did not fix my problem.

This should be a setting or something you can change. I also noted that I cannot send my call audio to the headphone jack via lightning adapter when plugged in.

Im experiencing the same thing. In addition, when I ask Siri to read messages while I’m driving, there is no sound. But if i push the side button to activate Siri and give the same command it then will broadcast thru the speakers.

Solution posted by Sjtnyc on September 25 works for me. Still says calls are going to speaker but they don’t.

This really is a case of Apple changing something that didn’t need changing without thinking through the consequences.

All they need to do is let us choose for ourselves rather than making decisions for us!

Me too, I’m have exactly the same issue, I use ear phones so I can use Siri to call and the button on the ear phones to hang up so I don’t have to touch the phone while driving. This bug requires me to touch the phone to transfer from speaker to phone, defeating the whole purpose of using Siri to call

Great workaround! Nothing better than an iOS upgrade that creates new problems, never before encountered. When I put this workaround in place, calls placed via Siri STILL say they will be on speaker but, in fact, they are not. Weird. But good enough until 13.1.2.1. comes out!

Me too! I have an iPhone 7+ and tried every work around (also tried changing to bluetooth and back again) and I’ve also shut down and hard reboot, but to no avail. Please, please Apple gurus, FIX THIS PROBLEM! 😖

I still can't keep the iPhone 11Pro connected to the car's BT. Calls hang up BT 20 seconds later. I call back and nothing changes. Sometimes the car's multimedia system restarts, which had never happened before. Since I had confidence in Apple, I upgraded the old iPhone 5 SE to iOS 13.1.2 and got exactly the same issues as the iPhone 11 Pro. The old iPhone 4S continues to work well and remains reliable. It is undoubtedly a serious software problem. Make the software and firmware updates. It's the least Apple has to do for customers who buy Apple products for them to exist.

I still can't keep the iPhone 11Pro connected to the car's BT. Calls hang up BT 20 seconds later. I call back and nothing changes. Sometimes the car's multimedia system restarts, which had never happened before. Since I had confidence in Apple, I upgraded the old iPhone 5SE to iOS 13.1.2 and got exactly the same issues as the iPhone 11 Pro. The old iPhone 4S continues to work well and remains reliable. It is undoubtedly a serious software problem. Make the software and firmware updates. It's the least Apple has to do for customers who buy Apple products for them to exist.

That was a great idea. I just read his post. Seems that thousands are having the same issue and hopefully Apple is working on a fix. Is there a way to contact Apple to report this issue. Maybe from hearing from yet another person will push them along.

I have the same problem and tried what the person suggested about going to Accessibiliy then Touch and turning on the Bluetooth, however, that did not work for me. I sure hope there is a solution soon.

I called Apple Support today twice about this issue and both reps acted like they never heard of the problem. I mentioned to look in the blog here for many similar complaints. It is not just my phone (obviously!). So frustrated. Told me to go to the Apple store which is a process and a long drive. I don’t have a whole afternoon to spare sitting around the Apple Store!!! Ridiculous!

Out of curiosity, I held the phone to my ear, pressed the Siri button and said "Call my wife" and it rang her phone in the ear speaker, not the speakerphone.

I then held the phone to my ear and said; "Hey Siri, call my wife" and again it rang her phone in the ear speaker, not the speakerphone.

I then held the phone in front of me and said "Hey Siri, call my wife" and it again connected using the ear speaker.

Next I put in my AirPods, tapped the Siri pod and said "Call my wife" and it connected using the AirPods.

Finally, I said "Hey Siri, call my wife on speaker" - it responded "calling your wife on speaker", and it did.

So I have no idea what the problem is with anyone else's phone. Mine works exactly as I would expect.

99.99% of the people here are an insignificant fraction of the over 1 billion people who own iPhones. People who aren’t bothered by this behavior or don’t care either way are unlikely to visit this tiny thread.

I also experience this now, but I’m glad because I often ask Siri to call when I’m driving and I never liked having to take my eyes off the road to touch the speaker button. I hope apple can make it so we’re all happy.