Siri within CarPlay is not working
I am using an iPhone SE (2020; iOS 16.0) with my 2021 Honda Accord Hybrid (using its stock infotainment unit). Up until just a couple days ago, Siri and CarPlay seemed to work just fine. Then, when I asked Siri a question mid-drive, it seemed to freeze up the entire CarPlay module... although the touchscreen UI still worked, no audio would play...no music, no podcasts. Finally, when I found a place to stop, I restarted my car, and everything seemed okay, i.e., I was able to resume listening to my music and podcasts, except it seemed that Siri has stopped working.
Siri will no longer read my text messages. It looks like it goes through the motions, i.e., when I click on the Messages app, the screen looks like it usually does when reading messages (including the countdown timer), but I hear nothing. If I press the button on my steering wheel to call up Siri, the screen changes to show the glowing circle at the bottom, but I get no audio response to ensure that my voice command went through. I've double-checked, and my volume is at its max for the Siri component, but I still hear no response.
As far as I can tell, the microphone still works. From within Google Maps, I can still call up my microphone so that I can tell it a location that I want to go to. Also, if I try to dictate a text message, it will take the dictation, and I can follow up my text message with "Send it" and the text message gets sent, BUT I typically have Siri read my message back to me just to ensure that it interpreted my message correctly, and now Siri no longer reads me my messages.
I don't think it was necessarily the iOS 16 update that created this bug, as I was driving around with iOS 16 for a good few days without any major problems. It all just started happening just a couple days ago.
I've tried the following:
- Restarting my iPhone
- Restarting my Car
- Having my iPhone "forget" my car and building a new connection (both via USB and Bluetooth connections)
- Double-checking my Siri settings to ensure that Siri and CarPlay are enabled. Incidentally, Siri will still speak to me when my phone is NOT connected to my car.
Can anyone help me with this?
iPhone SE
