Voice control

Is voice control only available in the US?

iPhone 7, iOS 13

Posted on Aug 4, 2020 1:43 PM

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Posted on Aug 6, 2020 7:34 PM

Salutations Mrri,


Welcome to Apple Support Communities!


You've asked a great question about the region requirements for Voice Control. Like many features, it also may not be available in all countries or regions. "Voice Control uses the Siri speech recognition engine for U.S. English only." You'll see this and more about Voice Control here: Use Voice Control on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.


Since Voice Control uses the Siri speech recognition engine, you may see if Siri is available in a specific region here: iOS and iPadOS

Feature Availability.


Enjoy!

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Aug 6, 2020 7:34 PM in response to Mrri

Salutations Mrri,


Welcome to Apple Support Communities!


You've asked a great question about the region requirements for Voice Control. Like many features, it also may not be available in all countries or regions. "Voice Control uses the Siri speech recognition engine for U.S. English only." You'll see this and more about Voice Control here: Use Voice Control on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.


Since Voice Control uses the Siri speech recognition engine, you may see if Siri is available in a specific region here: iOS and iPadOS

Feature Availability.


Enjoy!

Aug 7, 2020 12:47 PM in response to Mrri

Salutations Mrri,


Thanks for the additional information.


It's understandable you'd like a direct answer specific to Voice Control. This is great feedback to provide for the "iOS and iPadOS Feature Availability" document.


On the document "Use Voice Control on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch" you'll see "Learn more about customizing the commands for Voice Control". The intentions was certainly to get you in the right direction, but this link specifically includes that Voice Control is available only in the United States. The great news is that these documents will provide not only the answer you're looking for, but help with feature availability going forward.


Enjoy your weekend.

Aug 7, 2020 6:08 AM in response to Chris_D13

I accidentally clicked that this was helpful. It was not helpful at all. A simple yes or no would've been great, seeing as none of the links you provided gave me an answer on wether or not Voice Control is only available in the US. First link doesn't say anywhere in which countries/regions Voice Control is available, it only says it uses American English. Second link is just one huge list where Voice Control isn't even mentioned anywhere. Under which category is Voice Control supposed to be there? Not clear at all.

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