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I cannot voice dictate and I get a mic symbol with an x on it when I press the mic icon on imessage. Cannot voice dictate in other places such as in notes or to do a browser search. My mic does work because people can hear me on a call.

iPhone 13, iOS 16

Posted on Oct 10, 2022 9:08 PM

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Oct 14, 2022 12:30 AM in response to BrittneyMcD

Ok so I did the following and it fixed my issue.

I deleted “Siri and dictation history” and then re-recorded my voice to enable Siri to recognize it and that seems to have done the trick. I can now voice text in iMessage, Notes, into a browser like Google, etc.

Posted on Oct 17, 2022 12:14 PM

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Oct 19, 2022 4:40 AM in response to binojmatthew

Interesting. In my case, it does seem to record voice text when the small ‘microphone X’ icon is present. However, the small ‘microphone X’ icon doesn’t appear right away after tapping the microphone icon—you have to start talking, then the ‘microphone X’ icon appears, then whatever you say after that gets translated from voice to text.


Kind of bizarre setup, you’d expect to tap the microphone and start talking right away straight into talk-to-text, but you have to say random stuff first to get to the recording part.


I’m using the newest iPhone Pro Max so I’d be surprised if it was a lag. Maybe there is a setting we can adjust to begin dictation automatically after microphone icon is tapped and remove the lag.

Oct 19, 2022 9:01 AM in response to binojmatthew

I deleted the Siri dictation history, re-recorded my voice for Siri again, but nothing changed until I changed the Siri language to English -UK. It worked right away for me and now I have voice to text function back across all apps. Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I haven't switched back to English (United States) to check the function for fear of jinxing things and messing it up.

Oct 19, 2022 11:31 PM in response to binojmatthew

The different tips and things that I did that I learned here definitely helped meaning that for a literally since I did the last update my mic was not working at all and I live on text messages that I dictate

now, after reading all these and spending an hour and a half playing with my phone, I can now dictate, which is wonderful however, that x just never leaves

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