Apple Watch "Raise to Speak" function not responding well

Exact same issue. Toggling off and on means it works once and never again until you toggle off and on again. Super annoying. Come on Apple do better.

If they've redesigned it this way it's a total bummer. Earlier I used to just raise my arm and say "next", "play louder" etc when I went for a run. So if it needs longer sentences to work then it's pretty much useless to me. I have tried holding it as close to my mouth as possible, and it works 1 in 10 times. I miss the previous watchOS! This feature was a must for me because I often do trail running and it's a lot safer to give voice commands instead of watching and pushing on the screen. I've sent several bug reports about this but never received a reply, and I fear this is how they've decided that Siri should work. It's not good at all

So far, this is working for me as well. I have the same watch in the same issues. But when you say get close to your mouth, I literally have my lips touching the watch in order for it to work, which isn’t ideal.

While I didn’t delete my watch face favorites, some faces seem to work more reliably with raise to speak some faces over others.

Same issue. I just got my series 9 five days ago. After i toggle off and on, it will work again but only once, its frustrating that its not working.

I’ve tried bringing my series 9 very close to my lips and it only worked once. This is not a reliable solution to the problem and Apple needs to address it.

Yea same issue. I just got the Ultra 2. I test drove the Ultra 1 for a month before getting the new one. It worked flawlessly on WOS 9, and now it feels like I got a dumber watch. So much for the SIP that was advertised. I’m not getting reliable raise to speak response anymore. I refuse to say Siri every time again, it’s just annoying and regressed. I’m surprised Apple has this terrible a QC process when it comes to Siri

I never found that it worked easily or well on previous watches but with a new Series 9, I’d like it to work since Siri actually works now. Unfortunately I can’t get raise to speak to work at all. I haven’t gotten it to work even once.

Apple Watch SE2 and this has been a major bummer since Apple Watch is 10. I used to use it all the time cooking and it worked 9/10 times really well.

now I’m lucky if it works 1/10 times. And as pointed out the timer complication used to reliably show the current timer. Now it … sometimes works?

pretty disappointed bc I use(d) the timer feature all the time, now I just get frustrated every time I try and it doesn’t work.

Doesn't work

Same issue for me since watchOS 10, always worked flawlessly in previous versions and I got the Apple Watch 4 model. Apple please fix this, it’s probably the only reason why I still have the watch.

Yeah.. it's a pretty big deal for those of us that run every day! I feel pretty dumb when I run around shouting at the watch! Even shouting doesn't help btw.

Has anyone found a solution to this problem yet? I tried disconnecting and reconnecting my watch and changing the watch faces.

There is no solution it’s just bad design. They had it working flawlessly in 9 but broke it in 10