How do I stop Siri from talking in response to questions?

Hello Gruts,

Thanks for posting in the Apple Support Communities.

You're only wanting to see the response from Siri on your screen instead of having Siri provide voice responses, right?

If we understood that correctly, check out the following steps to adjust this setting. You can locate more details on this here: Change Siri settings on iPhone - Apple Support

Change how Siri responds

Siri can respond out loud or silently (with text onscreen). You can also see your request onscreen.

Go to Settings  > Siri & Search, then do any of the following:

• Change when Siri provides voice responses: Tap Siri Responses, then choose an option below Spoken Responses.

• Always see the response from Siri onscreen: Tap Siri Responses, then turn on Always Show Siri Captions.

• See your request onscreen: Tap Siri Responses, then turn on Always Show Speech.

If that isn't helpful in what you're looking to adjust, provide more details so we have a better understanding.

Take care.

In doing searches on this problem,I came across an answer which seems to (sort of) solve this problem. When Siri is answering lower the volume. It appears that there is a volume level associated with Siri only and the general volume level is not affected. Next time Siri will answer at this volume ,even if it is set to zero whereas the main volume level is not affected.

Millions of people must be experiencing this major problem and Apple seems to be not interested in helping with answers. I don’t understand why it is the customers who have to answer each other’s questions as in this site where only 3 people are participating.

In ios16 the old option (available on iOS 15 ) of muting Siri has been removed. Now the only options are - Automatic (Siri will use on-device intelligence to automatically determine when to speak) and

Prefer spoken responses. On either of them Siri will speak the responses all the time.

I don’t understand why instead of improving the choices they have been limited. I don’t want everyone around to hear the answer to my question but now I have no choice because that option has been removed.

Gruts,

You can also change the volume of Siri with the steps here: How to change Siri volume - Apple Support

Feel free to also leave feature requests and feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple

Best.

I also am having the same problem and would like to keep this thread active until it's solved.

I chatted with support about it and they were useless (as usual) but provided this link to submit feedback so if you also want this feature back I'd recommend submitting this:

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

When using ios 16, this solution does NOT work. Siri always answers vocally unless all volumes are turned off. Hope Apple will fix this so I can make Siri silent like it was prior to ios 16.

There's no-one from Apple here. You need to use the Feedback link in the message above yours.

Quite simply, I do not want Siri repeating what I have requested in a public space. When Siri responds in iOS 16, it is loud and broadcast to everyone around. It makes me feel like the jerk that walks around talking to people on speakerphone and I am not that person.

I want to be able to choose whether Siri responds or not.

Thanks. I know that is an available Band-Aid, but still want to have the old options that were available prior to iOS 16.

While I am on my pedestal, I sure wish there was a way to turn off the whoosh a sound when you send a text.

Had mine off for years. Got a full volume of siri in my ear since I asked siri to call someone and I immediately put phone to ear. Really hurt. Used to happen when a FaceTime came is. I would answer and put phone to ear but ios pumps the volume out hands free which hurt. Used to happen all the time.

So while I know I'm not alone in my frustration with this issue, I'm also frustrated at the lack of any response from Apple. I want to keep this thread active in the hopes that it will lead to a fix.

Hey good folks at Apple, can you please put this issue on the front burner for the next IOS update....so tired of hearing siri every time that I ask a question.

I just re-submitted the issue at the Feedback link shown above.