siri back-to-back requests do not work

I have experienced the same issue on my iPhone 14 with iOS17. It appears this can happen if you have a specific Accessibility feature enabled on your iPhone. The feature in question is "Type to Siri". If the "Type to Siri" option is enabled, then the back-to-back requests will not work.

To Check if the option is enabled:

Open the Settings app.

Navigate to Accessibility->Siri.

Uncheck the "Type to Siri" option.

This allowed the back to back feature to function. Perhaps Apple needs to document this if it's not already.

Well, now it is working! I turned off “Listen for” Siri, then turned it back on. This essentially makes you set up Siri again to recognize your voice. Now back to back requests work. I recalled this trick with some older issue I had with Siri. It’s the old “turn it off and back on” bit.

Well, I think those of you who've got incompatible hardware are lucky so-and-sos, because I hate this feature and want to turn it off! It's always disappearing what's on-screen before I've had time to read it. Very irritating!

And, yes, this is limited to newer generation devices, per Apple--that's why you're not seeing it work on your much older stuff. They explain in the article on Siri (note the glossary for supported devices for back-to-back requests).

Use Siri on iPhone – Apple Support (UK)

Tragically the option of using type-to-Siri doesn't change this; wait long enough, the text eventually disappears, as though Siri is waiting for a request. Which, of course, it is. But I had hoped that perhaps it would present a workaround, albeit one with extra steps for dictating to Siri.

I think Apple should just give you control over this feature, and explain to users in Settings why they can't have it on older hardware. I want it off, and I can't.

Mine was working, then I updated 17.1 and now it’s not working. And the one suggestion to disable “type to siri” didn’t work - mine was already disabled. Enabling and disabling it didn’t help. When it worked, it was awesome.

Same Problem,

Its not working..

Back to back is not functioning for me and as I look, it’s also not functioning for many others. What is the fix? We wasted our time with Apple not having it debugged.

dec 7 2023 annoying as all get out tried all suggestions above not working

have iphone se 2nd gen with latest ios 17 update installed

come on apple get this fixed and give us an update