Lag when voice texting after 15.4.1 update

I have the same problem. Siri responds (quickly) to "Hey Siri new message to soandso" but then at least a 6 second lag before the "beep" indicating she is finally ready to listen. The lag is sooo long it took me a while to figure out what was going on.

Still doing it in ios 15.5.

I constantly use Siri to dictate messages when I'm driving and it's really aggravating.

Hey Karen!

Are you trying to use Dictation or "Hey Siri"?

If you're trying to use "Hey Siri", give these steps a try: If "Hey Siri" isn't working on your iPhone or iPad

Also, do you have any other devices nearby that may be picking up your voice?

Regards.

Only thing that works is changing the voice. Standard American Voice 4, the primary one it is set to, seems to be the ONLY voice that has the 9 second lag before you can vocally text. The other four American voices and every other, Australian, British, etc. works. Now why cant you guys just fix this? Why did I have a Apple rep on the phone who wanted to do full bore diagnostics on my phone, then contact tier 2 who was "bound to ask me to wipe out and reset my entire phone" when it is a problem with your last update? At least put it in the notes somewhere to save your people time and not put the clients through hours of worthless steps?

Hey there, pedxing6!

Thanks so much for using Apple Support Communities.

We want to help make sure that Siri is working as expected and that you're able to relay your messages seamlessly. To that end, we want to recommend that you disable dictation and reboot your iPhone before enabling it and testing again. You can do that from Settings > General > Keyboard. Once you reboot, re-enable that feature and let's see if it works a little more quickly.

The next thing we'd suggest is testing this issue on and off Wi-Fi (as well as when connected to a different Wi-Fi network). Sometimes network issues can prevent Siri from working as well as possible.

We hope that this information is helpful.

​Have a great day!

They tried that with me but I wasn't buying it. After several calls, the engineering department admitted the problem and said that it will be solved in a future update. Hopefully, it will be solved in the 15.5 update

Changing the voice to Australian works for me as well! There is no longer the lag in Siri being ready to accept the text dictation.

The only downside is that I now want to go and rewatch Crocodile Dundee movies.

DJSchroeder--Brilliant! What an easy fix. If only Apple Support knew how to fix its own problems. I'm disabling auto-updates. All they do is cause problems. Thanks so much for the tip. Changing to any voice except American works great!

Had this problem on my previous iPhone SE.

In the last week or so leading up to 15.6.1 it seemed like 2 out of 5 times, the problem went away, then after upgrading to 15.6.1 the problem went back to 100% of the time.

Then... I upgraded my phone to an iPhone SE 3rd Gen, I installed my backup from the 1st phone onto the new one - so the new phone has the same settings as the old. The problem went away.

So I'm wondering if there is a hardware component to this issue... perhaps it only affects certain iPhone models earlier than ____?

Apple is aware of the problem and says that they are working on a solution.

Karen,

We appreciate those details. At this point, let's have you reach out to us directly here: Get Support

Take care.

Others are having the exact same issue - seems like a new bug following the recent update. I've seen a bunch of different threads on this. Is Apple working on a fix?

The trouble is not in your set. It was caused by 15.4.1 update. It will be corrected in a future ios update.