Siri cutting out

Yes, same issue here - it's starting to spread as a known 14.5.1 bug that hopefully Apple will listen too and fix ASAP as a safety issue. It impacts Siri, Messages, and apps like Maps - anything text to speech in CarPlay is basically useless now until resolved.

This is happening on my iPhone SE 2nd edition consistently since the 14.5.1 update. It happens whether I am in the car or not, and whether I am wearing my Watch or not, and it's irritating at best, and could become a safety issue as others have mentioned. Siri will start to speak and then go silent, whether tasked with navigation directions, reading a text, or simply telling me what time the A's game is today. If I'm using it for navigation while listening to music, the music still mutes itself when Siri should be speaking, but there are is no voice.

My CarPlay system is an aftermarket Pioneer unit, but like I said, this happens when I'm not in the car as well.

If anyone finds any fixes besides waiting for an iOS update, please let us know!

I’m totally with you on the safety concerns. My Ford has the ability to read messages (most manufacture have the ability), but not send them. It’d be a nice workaround if Apple would allow the Bluetooth profile to allow cars to send messages if they can’t get Siri to work reliably.

My father has the second Generation iPhone SE same problem with Siri cutting out on IOS 14.5.1. So far I have fixed it with using reset all settings. Doing that resets all settings with no lose of data you will have to turn Location services back on and sign back in to your Wi-Fi connection.

WARNING!!: This has seemed to have fixed the problem, But you will have to reset all passwords and facial recognition settings, all info in your wallet will be lost. It’s an ordeal to restore everything.

Weirdly mine has started working this afternoon.

The only thing that’s happened is a trip to my local Apple store but my visit was unrelated to my phone. Siri in the car home was reading texts and replies. It’s still working now.

I’ll keep an eye on it.

I am sorry you had to go through all that but I am glade it fixed the problem. Lucky for me my father has second generation IPhone so I didn’t have to do anything but turn Location services back on and fix the weather widget.

Sorry to hear that on my fathers Second generation iPhone SE when I reset all settings at first I thought I failed because Siri was still cutting out but then it was working normal so far it’s fine. I hope the problem goes away for your phone.

Ok, after a dissatisfying call to Apple who claims there are no issues, I read and read and found after you reset and it comes back up you must shut your phone off, I left it off for 2 minutes. Turn your phone back on and THEN your Siri will work properly. 😃👌👍

iPhone 11 Pro. Erased phone to factory settings. Did not restore from backup. Clean install which is pain. Reset car stereo to factory settings. Still not fixed. Echoing what a few others gave said, CarPlay is essentially useless right now…

Yes!! Same here. I noticed mine first in Apple CarPlay. Siri starts to read back what I said and just stops at the first word. Then when trying to listen to a message, it wont read it at all. The siri on my phone does the same thing now. Just cuts off at the first word. Issue only started since installing 14.5.1

i had this exact problem and nothing worked. As ridiculous as it sounds, I eventually resorted to backing up to iCloud, completely erasing my phone and restoring phone from the backup. Presto. It works fine now. Same version of iOS and everything. Don’t ask me why but it worked with my iPhone 11

Same problems for me all described above. CarPlay voice navigation and text message reading useless. It either doesn’t read anything or starts speaking and then cuts out after a second or two. But it is not a CarPlay issue. I just tried it at home and Siri cut out when reporting a result (“Hey Siri, Yankees score.” Then “The Ya———“)

About a month ago I had an issue where Siri would activate, but would not be able to return any results. It would say having trouble, even with strong LTE and wifi signals. I wound JP resetting all settings and that fixed the problem (and was a bit of a pain to go through), but now more problems. I will try some of the quick fixes such as turning off and on wifi/cellular data, “hey Siri,” and other things. iPhone 11 Pro here with the current iOS.

Thanks for the info. I hope you're right. It's really annoying if you want to send a hands free text.

Yeah, it’s happening to me on a 2018 Ford Escape and a 2020 Ford Edge…. Both with Sync3 and CarPlay.

Apple needs to do better than this. I rely on Siri - especially when driving.