iPhone Dictation not working iOS 16

Chrisfnicholson that was REALLY REALLY funny - favourite & colour….

So I took a chance & actually walked into my local Apple Store to see about the dictation problem. In addition to the issues you all cited - inaccurate dictation (adding words/phrases not even close to what I actually said) there is a SUPER annoying little window popping up numerous times making SURE I really want to keep dictating in the language I’m using. Can’t stop it & it covers the text I’ve just dictated so I can’t check for mistakes. GET IT TOGETHER APPLE.

It actually has auto punctuation now. So, if you pause at the end of a sentence, it will place the period there automatically. If you pause in the middle of a sentence, it will place a comma there as well…

Same thing. I have updated and dictation is not working. I get a microphone with x button on it. I’ve tried everything. This is really disappointing that a critical feature not working and Apple has not released a fix yet. Please help!

Having the same issue. iPhone 14 Pro on 16.1 and can’t use dictation at all switched to UK keyboard and nothing it wont show a keyboard when i tap microphone it just goes to the voice microphone visual and removes the keyboard. Still nothing works.

So **** frustrating. This is the first time in years and years of buying only Apple products that makes me wanna switch over to android.

Dictation is a lifeline for a lot of people & a great convenience that we have all gotten used to. If Apple can’t figure this out they’re going to start losing a lot more customers.

I’m so over it.

Hi Manbike: it’s not that my dictation is not working. It IS working but so badly it’s a joke. It’s just very inaccurate since I upgraded to 16.0. It puts words in that I didn’t say, missed words I do say - not even close to what I intended. It’s to the point where I can’t really use that feature anymore and it was very critical to me. So it’s the inaccuracy that I’m talking about. I don’t really understand with a company as large & innovative as Apple, how an important feature that people depend upon has gotten WORSE with time.

Strange how some of these "workarounds" fix some phones, but not on others. Most of it is only temporary. Apple needs to adopt an ostrich with a deep hole in the ground for its new image.

So disappointed in their lack of resolution to this serious issue.

After automatic update to iOS 16.1.1, my voice to text and Siri dictation are screwed up but my Voice Memos and speaker phone work fine. I deleted keyboards, added them back, reset my network, reset all...nothing helps. Siri and voice to text seem to only start listening AFTER I've spoken several words, so they both miss the first part of everything I say. HELP?

Oh llacher1 - I feel your pain. I got multiple notices that my phone was going to automatically update to 16.1 & didn’t. Now after reading your post I’m glad it hasn’t. I’m suffering enough in 16.0. This is an ENORMOUS problem that Apple needs to solve. For those of us loyal Apple customers this is really unacceptable. And we’re powerless just waiting for the Apple tech experts to FIX THIS. Next phone upgrade I’m going to research android phones.

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.