Siri's voice sounds weird on iOS 15.1

Same thing happened to me as soon as I updated to iOS 15.1, I found it only happens when im on low power mode though. Apparently a lot of people have this issue and I hope they fix it soon

Yeah, my Siri is doing the exact same thing. Not only that but with my new update, my phone will not even connect to my car to play music at all anymore. The Apple service rep just told me to call my car manufacturer, reset my phone and forget the device in the car. Obviously none of those things worked because it was just the janky update that screwed all of these things up. The Siri voice sounds horrible, my phone will not connect to my car anymore via bluetooth, and Maps looks awful. Horrible update in my opinion.

This is the best feed I have found on this issue with Apple Car Play thus far. I started having this issue once I upgraded to IOS 15 and I am now currently on IOS 15.4 and still am having the issue of SIRI voice playback sound bad, muffled, underwater appx 70% of the time. I have tried ALL the fixes (even both power modes, regular and low) everyone has talked about in this thread with no resolution. I went to the apple store today and had ALL the tests that are available done on my phone including cleaning the lighting port (all came back good and working fine) and I am still having the same issue. I have a 2021 Toyoda Corolla and Toyoda says it is not a problem on their end and to contact apple. I am SO, SO frustrated and have done, what I believe is EVERYTHING. APPLE, PLEASE HELP!!!!

I am get this same issue with the iPhone 13 Pro on the latest IOS 15. I at first thought it was my new iPhone because it came out of box having this issue. I am pretty irritated because I use siri a lot and had hoped they would have fixed this issue by now. ITS BEEN 9 MONTHS APPLE. Obviously it is something wrong with your OS and I know yall are just focused on IOS 16 for now but please, please, please put out a patch update for IOS 15 and fix this SIRI issue.

Mine sounds muffled or almost sounds like my phone got wet and the speakers are messed up.

I literally just tried this and it worked. Its crazy that they somehow changed the settings of Siri so that she sounds worse when you are trying to save battery life🤨.

Worked!

I guess that low power mode decreases the quality of Siri’s voice to decrease battery usage.

Oh no my iPhone 11 started doing that just now. Grrrr! Did yours fix itself yet? It sounds like she’s dying. A drowning muffled robot. I have AirPods and she sounds like she’s broken the same as she does on my phone. All my other apps work incl. music and video/movies on both my AirPods and iPhone. Ugh!

Ugh. Happened to me with car play being close to useless on 2017 Kia. I updated the nav system which has helped- mostly. Still some quirks but mostly usable now (assuming you don’t want to dictate in Google maps or Waze..). Siri still sounds like crap tho.

It sounds like the audio is being rerouted through another device or system. It sounds like a bad phone call. I’m convinced it’s a sign that your phone has been hacked. I think whenever the sound becomes muffled, someone or something is listening in on your audio.

I have the same problem. I’m not on iOS 15.6 and I have restarted my iPhone multiple times and changed Siri’s voice multiple times, yet if I ask it to say a time out for the time it is muddled but for other things like calling someone it works fine.

How do I fix this, it really bothers me?!

My music app will not connect to my car after this new update so now I feel like I’m being forced to buy a dongle🤮.

this hasn’t fixed anthing my Siri will sometimes be good and it will mostly have bad quality sound. I have tried restarting my phone and changing sounds