Apple Watch intercom sound & iPhone reply button

Hey guys, when I receive an intercom notification on my watch it doesn’t play through the watches internal speaker. I’m not connected to any headphones as I don’t use my watch connected to any. I thought maybe you can’t listen via the built in speaker but I’ve seen a YouTube video of it working as such. When I click play the contact has rings around it as though it’s playing but no sound! Any ideas?


Secondly, on iPhone, when an intercom message is received there is no way to reply other than with Siri, is this correct? It would make more sense to press the greyed out intercom button below the play symbol to instant reply instead of calling up Siri to make a reply.


Any help would be appreciate from anyone who has any ideas on the ward sound and if you do HAVE to use Siri to reply immediately on an iPhone which seems counterintuitive to me if so.


Thanks

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Posted on Nov 11, 2020 12:17 PM

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Nov 12, 2020 5:48 AM in response to Randy-12

Thanks Randy, i have read that page before and watched the video but it didn't show dealing with a reply on the iphone so i was unsure about having to use siri instead of pressing the greyed out intercom button once an intercom has played. You would think that as there is an orange intercom "reply" button on intercom messages received on the apple watch that the same would be on the phone instead of having to add the extra step of involving siri when the phone is in your hand.


Still stumped on my watch not reading out the intercom messages though, i'll update when i found out if fixed or reported elsewhere.

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