Siri now says “sorry I can’t help with that” with Notes

Yeah, I just noticed today that it's not working for me either. I often send emails to myself while I'm driving as reminders for when I get to my laptop and able to look into what I'm thinking of. I tried it today and was surprised that Siri said she can't help me with that. Very annoying because it's way more safe for Siri to do this for me hands free while I'm driving. I really hope Apply fixes this soon.

I was alerted to this problem by a visually impaired contact and found that I had the same problem with Siri - asked to read emails or send emails the reply was "Sorry, I can't help with that". Having had a long online chat with Apple Support I was told that I'd have to 'manually' read or compose and send emails. I then had a phone conversation with Apple Support which ended abruptly with a disconnection ( not by me!) and with only having been on hold for most of the 18 minutes. I've looked at my GMail account, my Microsoft permissions, that I'd downloaded and very briefly used, but then deleted, the Outlook app, but nothing has restored this important feature on both my iPhone (XR) and iPad. The problem happened simultaneously on both devices without my having changed any settings. It started on iOS 14.7, was not solved by updating to 14.8, and, from other users' experiences, is unlikely to be resolved by going to 15!

Chiming in to say I have this exact problem and it started a week or two ago as well. It’s clearly related to something Apple changed.

I use Siri primarily to say “add lemons to groceries note” or whatever and now it just says “Sorry, I can’t help with that.” Siri is rendered essentially worthless to me because that is 90% of my Siri usage.

At the risk of violating my own critique with the following remark; there’s a a button for that and it’s in plain sight at the beginning of the forum page. Tapping the “Me too” button is the appropriate response for anyone impacted by the same issue as the author. I know I’m not the only one frustrated by countless forum threads inundated with stories of commiseration when in reality, we’re all here seeking solutions or at least fair attempts at resolution versus sifting through pages of “I thought it was just me” or “My sister has the same issue, can anyone help please?”

Thank you, to the author who started this thread and to the good folks who take the time to provide support.

-M

Same. I was going to buy a new iPhone but I don’t feel like investing more money into a phone that doesn’t do what I need. Apparently they also block you with software from replacing the screen or any parts for the new iPhones too wtf…

Like others, I have an issue dictating to an existing note. Adding won’t work. I can however dictate a new note. But I often add to existing notes by dictation as I think of them, lest I forget to do it later.

Apple Please fix this

This is so ridiculous... and the fact they still haven't acknowledged it yet. This was literally the reason I was about to buy an Apple watch 7, and now I basically have no use for it. My Fitbit does everything else fitness... and better.

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I have the same exact issue, in the same exact scenario. Siri made it so easy to add things to my grocery list prior to iOS 15. Now she says "Sorry, I can't help with that" as you've indicated.

Forgot to mention that neither resetting nor restoring my iPhone resolved this problem.

I have the same issue. What’s going on apple? I have an iPhone 8.

Has there been any update or fix? I use this feature daily and it’s driving me nuts that it doesn’t work :(

Wow. I haven’t read that

Why are there not more people complaining about this?

Essential functionality broken.