iPhone Dictation not working iOS 16

So far the “warning” that my phone will automatically update to 16.1 has been showing up for 3 days now & it hasn’t happened so there’s that. This so far is one of the worst upgrade screw ups I’ve ever experienced with Apple. Wish I’d never upgraded but then if you don’t, apps don’t work. We’re kinda like prisoners in the Apple world.

APPLE ARE YOU LISTENING??

what a lame response from Apple. Anyone with a brain can see that the dictation is horrible. I've noticed other mentions of one of the strangest problems I have, 2 or 3 repetitions of entire sentences or phrases. Its as tho no one at Apple has a clue nor cares particularly about this. And I get the impression this has been going on for months if not years. So demeaning to have a "community specialist" say something like 'you've done some really good troubleshooting...we want to help you figure this out..we're not sure exactly what it is you're experiencing...etc, etc. Where TF is that attitude coming from. Do you work for another company just messing with Apple customers and getting a big laugh? That is seriously what comes to my. mind with Apple responses.

Gregg Lovan

Boise, ID

The upgrade to dictation has been very challenging to say the least. You press the button to dictate and half the time it doesn’t work and you have to redo it. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t. Very frustrating when you were a professional trying to utilize your phone. I hope they fix is in the works.

I am having the same issue. I did an upgrade to the 16.2 os an at least it works somewhat occasionally. when I dictate a message a small icon appears with a microphone and a slash thru it though it may still work

I turned on the feature to show what is heard - it hears my words correctly but then Siri / AI hacks off much of the first part of most sentences as if they think they are instructions

very frustrating as I have so many shortcuts that rely on dictation

Still not working and it's January 2023! When is Apple going to get this fixed?! Super frustrating- they force you to upgrade to newest release or you can't air drop anymore and then you've got bugs with features like this that no longer work! UGH.

Just adding my voice here to show this is not some isolated incident. I've been using dictation for years on everything especially for rapid fire notes and texting at work. As of the last update version 16.2, it is awful.

Here are the odd behaviors: 1- Serious lag in capturing my voice. 2- Serious lag with the mic button's on/off. Many times when I think it's off it's not and vice versa. 3- Insertion of commas and periods every other word. (I prefer the old way of telling SIRI when I want punctuation as in blah, blah, COMMA. blah, blah, PERIOD.).

Because of all this, I cannot use it anymore. PLEASE restore it to the way it use to work. It wasn't broke, so don't fix it.

This is a known issue and has been confirmed by a senior advisor told me apple is working on fixing it but nothing yet over weeks old

Switching to the UK keyboard has worked for me as well, but it’s a bit of a funny workaround, because I think my friends will soon wonder why my favourite colour is blue.

That's great news. What about THIS THING??? Driving me batty...

same problem

Any word from Apple yet? anyone else having been told the same thing I was told?

I know what that picture looks like ... Looks like Siri has covid 19 LOL kidding all but yah frustrated

Just wanted to add that I to am having the same issues. On iOS 16.0.2 on a iPhone 12 and voice dictation and Siri don’t work at all.

my life blood on iPhone is dictation. This is the first major bug on iOS since I switched from Android that has impacted my day to day usage. Sad to not see a faster fix released by Apple.