Voice Control Does Not Work On iPad OS 16.1

In our case, voice control would not work after upgrading to iOS 16.1.1. It was set to use english(Canada). English(canada) was the only language that was downloaded to the device. Using the answer above we downloaded english(United States). That language downloaded — the downloading status icon was a full blue circle and full blue square. There was then a delay — 2 minutes or so, and a message popped up saying that voice control for english(Canada) — yes english(canada) - was now active. Then the download of english(united states) became fully completed. We did not have to change the language away from english(Canada). It appeared that the act of downloading a new language triggered voice control to do something that completed an activation of some kind that needed to be done after the upgrade to iOS 16.1 / 16.1.1.

Thank you so gosh darn much. You're a genius. It worked perfectly. As soon as I downloaded the US English language pack, Voice control started working again. Thank you thank you thank you

Turning off assistive touch in accessibility worked for us even with Canada. America English would not download for some reason

See if you can roll back to iPad OS 16. It works for dictation with my iPad. You probably will have to ask support to help you with that because you have a new one.

It’s very weird because 10 minutes ago my dictation came out completely messed up and nothing like what I was saying, but now it’s working perfectly here, and I just also tested it in notes and it also works perfectly there now as well.

Hello JeanM1995

That sounds very frustrating, and annoying!

I have not noticed any issues yet - I use an iPhone 12 mini and iPad Pro 3rd generation both on release 16.1 - but confess I have not yet used Voice control much so it maybe it just has not failed yet!

Did Apple say if the issue was related to the M2 Chip? I see you have the 4th gen device.

We are looking at getting a new iPad so it would be helpful to know if you get a resolution. I will update this thread if I experience the same issue.

Good luck with the fix. I agree it should be resolved QUICKLY :)

Yes - I am on 16.1 on all my devices. I have amended my previous post to reflect this. Sorry I should have been more specific.

I also have an iPad 7th gen - again voice control seems to work ok on a brief test, but I have not used it much yet to see if it deteriorates with time.

Good to hear you have fixed the issue. I would never have thought that the language could cause such an issue. fyi I was using English (UK) so this maybe why I did not experience the same issues as you.

Good luck.

I just checked, and mine has always been set to English United States