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I downloaded a second Siri voice that I don’t like. It’s almost half a gigabyte. When I go to accessibility ,spoken content and select the voice, it does not give me an edit option to delete it. How do I delete this downloaded voice? I already have the default one that I want to keep.
iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 14
I want to delete the downloaded Siri voices from my phone. Since it's my phone and I downloaded the voices, I should be allowed to delete the voices. Allowed, yes, because it's my phone. Default voices may stay, I even want to delete most of them, but OK they are there and Apple doesn't want me to delete them. I don't understand that but still, OK. I just want to get rid of the ones I downloaded. As simple as that.
I repeat, I want to delete the downloaded voices which seems impossible on ios 14.
I want to delete the downloaded Siri voices from my phone. Since it's my phone and I downloaded the voices, I should be allowed to delete the voices. Allowed, yes, because it's my phone. Default voices may stay, I even want to delete most of them, but OK they are there and Apple doesn't want me to delete them. I don't understand that but still, OK. I just want to get rid of the ones I downloaded. As simple as that.
I repeat, I want to delete the downloaded voices which seems impossible on ios 14.
The problem is that when you go to Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > Voices > Select the voice you want to remove, no edit button is present and you cannot swipe left to delete. Please bring this button back and let us delete voices for other languages too!
Hi Dj9281,
It sounds like you're wondering how to delete a Siri downloaded voice. We're glad you've joined us in Apple Support Communities. Let's see if this helps
Follow the steps in the section, "Remove a downloaded voice" in Adjust voice and speed for VoiceOver and Speak Screen on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. This link will walk you through where you can remove the additional downloaded voice.
If the issue remains, let us know what you saw when you navigated to Setting as outlined in the link above.
We hope that helps with your question and take care!
I fail to see the reason behind forcing us to keep all voices. Especially at their current size. Just a waste of space. Make the original voice permanent, then let us pick and chose which alternate we want or don't want. If we ever want a voice back, we can always download it again. it can't use up that much data.
Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > Voices > is where I downloaded the “Siri Female” voice I would now like to delete. (This is the place where you choose the voice for spoken content, not Siri’s voice.) I tried several different voices and was able to delete the others that I didn’t want (besides the defaults); however, the others had enhanced versions. It seems that the edit button only appears when there are 2 choices for a voice (basic and enhanced). When the voice only has 1 version, such as for “Siri Female,” the edit option is not available. I’d really like to delete this voice since it is wasting space.
When I click on the voice I downloaded that I now want to remove, it just puts a checkbox on it. No edit button displays.
Unfortunately, you can't delete Siri Voices from your region. Instead of allowing us to do this, and offer a preview option to avoid downloading voices we won't like,, Apple's philosophy is we like to download voices and spend hours endlessly switching between them.
That didn't work. When I go to where the voiceover button is, it's turned off (which is how I want it). There's no way to get past that step without turning it on. When I tried, it started speaking to me and wouldn't let me press ok or cancel. I had to close the entire screen. Are you sure this is where siri voices are kept?
It’s not possible to remove Siri voices from our own region. I downloaded all 4 US Siri taking up 2 GB of space. I’d like the option to get my space back please. Or are you trying to get me to upgrade my storage? 😉 Ty
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Hi Dj9281,
If you don't see it there then let's look in a slightly different place in Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > Voices > Select the voice you want to remove > Edit in the top right corner > Select delete icon > Select delete again.
If VoiceOver is still on, you can turn it off quickly by asking Siri to turn it off Voice Over.
Best!
This is my question, too. I don't want to uninstall all of the Siri-Siri voices... Just the ones I don't use. And, it's confusing to have to specify Siri-Siri because it could be Siri-Samantha (which also can't be removed, but at least it's not half a gig in size) or something else. Also, for me, this problem is on my iPad. I hope the fix can be applied to all devices, when it comes. (If it comes.)
(I meant to reply to the main thread. My apologies for the double-post. I can't delete the other entirely.)
How do I delete one of the 4 Siri voices?
