Dictation and Siri stopped in iOS 16

I’ve been having the same issue and saw a response where a user went in and corrected their Siri settings for the preferred language to be “English (US).“ I noticed that mine had changed when the iOS 16 update took place where my default language was identified to be “English (South African).” This was most likely due to me having the voice of Siri be South African. I had to toggle the voice setting back to South African after the correction to English (US). It seems to be working now.

I just started having this problem the other day, and the only resolutions I could find were to check the talk and text in settings and make sure my microphone works or try updating my iOS or factory reset. Then I looked up only Siri problems and someone recommended going to settings, and then Siri & search, toggling off the ‘listen for hey Siri’, waiting 10 seconds and turning it back on and then resetting Siri. This worked for me.

Just to follow up on my 16.1 comment myself… I updated to iOS 16.1 on Oct 25th, went back to my usual US English settings, and Siri has been working as it should. Fingers crossed this has been fixed with this update.

I had the same issue… Spoke with Apple Support and worked with him for over an hour. We were able to fix my dictation issue by switching to the UK English keyboard but it wasn’t until I read below that I needed to switch language inside Siri and inside my operating system as well to UK English. Everything seems to work fine now as I am waiting for the system upgrade, 16.03 did not fix the issue

I happened upon this same resolution. I updated to iOS 16.0.2 and then jumped on a plane to the UK. Frustrated that my voice to text wasn't working, I switched to the UK version as LEGO Damashii had. I was there for a week, it worked fine, in fact my phone is still set to UK (3 weeks later); however, voice to text has stopped working. If I fiddle with it enough, I can get functionality to temporarily return by going into 'Siri & Search' settings and toggling the first three options all off and then all back on. Obviously, not a solution. (Side note, if you verbally punctuate your 'voice to texts' and are using the UK dictation/keyboard, say "Full Stop" instead of period. )

Fortunately my fix was easier. After reading all of the responses and having no success I decided to shut off dictation and then reboot my phone. Once it fired back up, I turned dictation back on and it has been working fine ever since. Fingers crossed it stays this way because it was super aggravating.

I just read to change Siri language to English (United Kingdom) instead of United States. I was having same problem as you and it WORKED for me. Good luck

Can confirm - it is a new known issue and requires a patch next version iOS... spent 3 hours on phone and IM with support.

I changed only the Siri language to UK. So far it works. If I switch back to US it stops working.

BTW switching from US to UK English for keyboard, system, and siri restored some dictation.... it basically works however the punctuation (ex. period) and other commands such as "new line" still dont work.

This also worked for me period I only need to set Siri in the keyboard to be English in the UK

I’m annoyed that my for several days i have been texting with Apple Support and they could not tell me about this temporary solution.

The official Apple response is:

Thank you for letting me know about this workaround, I'm really sorry about this, even if we endorse the use of the discussions, I can only share the official Apple documentation

Come on, Apple. Empower your people. Steve Jobs rolling in his grave.

Same happened to me and apple couldn’t help. I read to change Siri’s language from English- United States to English- United Kingdom. I tried it and it worked!!!