spinning wheel icon next to wi-fi indicating network activity

I canceled the SE exchange and returned the the phone and went back to an iPhone 8. Migrated to the 8 directly from the SE. Same iOS, same apps, same settings....but no constant spinning network activity indicator. There is now peace again in the world. Buh-bye everyone.

I recall that you seem to have an especially difficult time getting the icon to dismiss on your SE, but after I was made aware of the Siri trick, I never had to restart my phone or reset the network settings in order to get the spinning icon to go away. The most troublesome thing is that it sometimes takes multiple attempts with the Siri trick.

I guess I probably shouldn’t be optimistic that the problem has been fixed though, if you are still experiencing it on your iPhone 8. I’m also noticing, as I use voice-to-text for this reply, that I don’t even see the spinning network activity icon while using the dictation. So any “fix” may actually just be simply a change that the icon no longer displays for dictation.

We’ll have to see what more peoples experiences are.

I actually just did it on the phone (OTA). I’m too new of an iPhone user to really have my own opinion, but I have seen others recommend doing major upgrades (like from iOS 13 to iOS 14) via the computer, and just doing the incremental upgrades OTA.

Hi all, I have a constantly spinning wheel on my iPhone 8 and I have IOS 14.5. I didn’t know about using Siri to stop it though so I will try that. I notice 14.6 is now available so I will update tonight to see if it solves it. Is everyone else still experiencing this?

@All:

Indications from WWDC are that iOS 15 will do much of its verbal interpretation on-device: not even needing to be connected to the Internet for this processing.

To the extent that this includes Voice-to-Text (V2T), and to the extent that onboard V2T is supported on your hardware, this should truly solve this issue!

Unfortunately, until iOS 15 is released, we will not know for sure.

I still do not believe this is truly fixed. I believe iOS 14.5 simply hides the indicator anytime you are using voice to text. The network activity indicator no longer comes at all for voice to text, although it most certainly is using the network.

It’s a band aid.

dedfar wrote:

iOS 14.5 confirmed fixed the issue. You don't need 15. Now the wheel spins only when there is real network activity. Doesn't get stuck on.

If so, that’s great.

(I haven’t seen this assertion confirmed. In fact, I have seen the opposite asserted.)

I also have the same problem with the spinning wheel way I get rid of it is to open up Siri tell her to quit spinning the wheel she says I don’t know what you’re talking about and I said I know I just want you to stop and I don’t want you to say another word and then it stops

I’d try putting your SIM card back in and see if you can induce the problem. I think it’s a piece of information worth confirming.

The update did not fix the problem for me either. Spinner comes on after dictation, goes away by resetting or quickly invoking Siri many times. For me, this only happens on my iPad Pro 11 inch

Podgirlfromtheblacklagoon, just confirm that you are seeing the spinning network activity indicator *while using speech-to-text* in those other apps you mentioned?

Update it. That seemed to (finally) solve the problem. Good luck!

In the Get Info on Dictation (before activating it), it says that you are using Siri to perform the process, machinist_5.

Of course, that, by itself, doesn’t explain the issue.

I haven’t enabled Dictation on my machine. (The last time I used Safari, on an old machine, Safari did poorly at understanding me.)