Siri won’t review dictated text in iMessage App on Apple CarPlay after IOS 17 update

Hey GCM317,

Thanks for posting in Apple Support Communities. It sounds like 'Send messages without confirmation' may be enabled. Check and change that setting if needed using this guidance from Change Siri settings on iPhone - Apple Support.

"Change Siri settings for Phone, FaceTime, and Messages

You can perform tasks for Phone, FaceTime, and Messages with just your voice. With Siri, you can hang up calls and skip the confirmation step when sending messages. You can enable these features in Settings.

Go to Settings > Siri & Search, then do any of the following:

• Hang up Phone and FaceTime calls: Tap Call Hang Up, then turn on Call Hang Up. For more information, see End phone and FaceTime calls.
• Send messages without confirmation: Tap Automatically Send Messages, then turn on Automatically Send Messages. See Send and reply to messages on iPhone."

Take care.

Actually, I have found that in the settings for SIRI - Announce Notifications: turn off the “Reply without Notification” and the functionality should return to what we expect.

Siri will read your message back and ask if you want to sent.

problem solved !!!

I took my 2023 nx250 to the dealership. I’m also getting the “what do you want” at the start of every dictated message, it seems like Siri is taking her own dictation. Anyway my car was in with the tech department for the better part of a day. Forgetting and reinstalling devices, usb or no usb, many different iPhones used and troubleshooting on other cars on the lot. All had the same issue. They determined it is an Apple issue, since the iOS 17 update. They said it’s something that has to be corrected on the Apple side. Dictation was working perfectly on the same car for a year - the only change was the Apple update.

I am having the same problem. I have a 2022 Lexus NX250. I've tried the things you've tried.

Also, they update yesterday (on 12/13) didn't help at all.

I've determined that the statement in the text that says "What do you want" is actually Lexus talking. I tried to have Lexus contruct the email and when you call out "Hey Lexus" she repsonds with "What do you want."

Found a fix to the voice to message in Car Play. Had the same issues and tried all the suggestions but for me the fix was disconecting the negative lead on my car battery for a few minutes.

Thats all it took - messaging in CarPlay now works like a charm.

Hope this helps someone!

I have a Lexus UX 250H new May 2023. The CarPlay worked perfectly until ios17 came along. I’ve recently contacted Apple (after having spoken to both Apple and Lexus previously) and the Apple advisor confirmed to me that it was a Siri problem but he had no idea when it would be sorted. I’ve told Lexus they should be contacting Apple at the highest level to get this sorted. It’s nearly 6 months already!

FYI, the workaround that @GCM317 described at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255201950?answerId=260070136022#260070136022 worked for me in my Kia EV9. Inconvenient but better than nothing ! Thanks @GCM317.

My partner is having the same issue on her 2024 NX350. We tried with my iPhone and didn’t work. When I use my iPhone with my Acura, Siri doesn’t have any issue reading the text I dictate. Because of this, I think it might be Lexus rather than Apple. If you have non lexus or Toyata cars, you might want to give it a try too.

Also tested when using CarPlay in an Kenwood aftermarket headunit and did not get the issue. This is the same iPhone (iOS 17.3) that also did not get the issue in a BMW. However that same iPhone does get the issue in a Kia EV9.

In the Messages app, Siri gets one word out when reviewing a message, and then cuts out. If I tell it to Send the message, it goes. So there's no problem with it hearing what I've dictated.

To check if the problem is specific to the Messages app, in the Kia I also asked Siri questions such as "what's the weather today". Siri read back quite a bit of the weather, but eventually cut out like it did with Messages app. Perhaps a few of you Lexus owners could do that test and see how it goes? My Kia is a new model. Does the issue happen only with newer Lexus or older ones as well?

I suspect it is a general problem with Siri speaking information, but Messages app is worse affected.

It seems to be related to the hardware in specific cars. CarPlay and Siri itself are all projected from the phone, so it only uses the hardware (screen, microphone and speaker) of the car and firmware to communicate with the phone and do the projection. My guess is there's something incompatible between affected cars' hardware and/or firmware and latest iOS releases. Hope it's the firmware, or Apple can create a workaround.

@txpaulieg Glad to hear that it's fixed now with your Merc. :-) The “Reply without Notification” option completely turns off Siri reading back what was written in Messages. Of course you will not hear Siri say anything when that is enabled.

This issue is about when “Reply without Notification” is disabled . Siri should read out the message when it is disabled, but it doesn't on certain cars. In my case, I hear one word from Siri, then silence.

As proof: on the same iPhone which has “Reply without Notification” disabled, and no other setting changes: on two cars Siri messages are read back, and on the third car they aren't read back. Other people posting here said it used to work with their Lexus, but stopped working they upgraded to iOS 17.x. So, clearly this issue isn't related to any setting.

This is currently happening in my brand new KIA Sorento- 2024. It worked fine until I updated my phone and now I’m getting the message I cannot repeat back while in the car. My husband hasn’t updated his phone and it works fine for him. I think it’s definitely an apple issue.

I have the same issue with my Lexus NX 350H. It started immediately after the IOS 17 update. I have tried everything including resetting my phone back to factory settings (which was a major inconvenience). This is clearly an Apple issue and there are MANY complaints about it online for a variety of different car brands.

APPLE: For all the money you charge your customers for your technology and devices, why won’t you fix problems like this ASAP when you learn of them? I’m considering switching to android because I’ve just about had enough.

this is Lexus issue. I tried. 10 cars. My phone worked in every single one. Same 10 people tried their phone in my car. None worked. Lexus software is not compatible with apply car play. Lexus needs to fix their software