Apple Watch with iPhone SE Siri not playing nice!

This is just a community service announcement. Ever since updating my 44mm Apple Watch Series 4 to 6.xx Siri on the watch has basically been broken.

I found some third party forums that deal with the exact issue, but I could not find one on the Apple Discussion Community so I decided to put a post up here so others like myself can find info and know that they are not alone.

The problem appears to specifically be only for users of the iPhone SE.

The symptoms are some Siri requests takes very long to be processed, with multiple "I am working on it" comments from Siri. Often times the request fails. When the request does succeed after this delay Siri will begin answering, and then interrupt herself with "Uh oh, Lost the connection..." and then will continue to correctly fulfill the request.

Sometimes Siri will work flawlessly and lightning quick, and users have been unable to find a pattern to the success/failure. I and others have forced the watch to use WiFi vs the bluetooth connection to the iPhone and Siri works great in that test environment.

Currently on iOS 13.3 on iPhone SE with Apple watch Series 4 on 6.1.1

Apple Watch Series 4, watchOS 6

Posted on Dec 14, 2019 7:03 AM

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ATSiem

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Posted on Jan 26, 2020 4:02 PM

I 100% echo the comments of the original poster.

I just worked with Apple to Backup, Unpair and Repair my Apple Watch 4 44mm to my iPhone SE and Siri is now functioning much better. A slight delay on 1/10 requests versus barely fulfilling any. I am in the latest software for both phone and watch at the time of this writing. I know updates to the pairing/connectivity were deployed in iOS 13.1. I had last tried this troubleshooting process in 13.0.x.

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