Dictation not working after iOS 18 and keyboard issues

Same. I’m having an issue where I have the English/Spanish and while it did work before well. It did get sluggish and now Siri only dictates in Spanish. Hey siri still works, but when I hold the power button there’s a small window of time that Siri will listen to me. Like if I say ‘what’s the temperature in Miami’ Siri will tell me the temperature of my current location.

100% this. I use both English and Spanish, and just typed a text message in English - it marked every word as misspelled and wanted to change them to Spanish. Also autocorrect is correcting things that don't need to be corrected. Also the random capitalization of Words is over the top. Worst up

same issues here. I went from an iPhone 13 Pro Max to an iPhone 16 pro max and voice dictation almost never works or is completely wrong. It's also sluggish if it works.

Apple needs to fix this, this is a critical feature I use on a daily basis and many persons with disability too.

There are definitely problems with dictation and Siri integration on iOS 18.1. At various points in time typically when a phone call comes at the same time as dictation is happening or something along those lines dictation will cease to work any longer. So while you can click the microphone to dictate to the phone, it won’t do anything. The only way to fix it is to do a hard reboot. Volume up, volume down and press and hold the power button until you see the Apple sign. That’s the only way to refresh the cache file. And then you can talk to the phone or utilize Siri as you normally would. There’s definitely a problem in iOS 18.1. Hopefully 18.2 fixes it. I only use it with the English language. I have no idea how international languages are behaving. But ultimately, that’s my only solution to dealing with this.

PS I notice now that Norwegian is not on the "multilingual typing" list

iOS and iPadOS - Feature Availability - Apple

so I'm not sure my earlier post about that is relevant.

Have you tried removing Norwegian and adding it again? Perhaps you can opt out of the new multilingual feature.

The sluggish dictation and Siri not working was resolved with a reset. A pain to go through, but the phone is working perfectly now.

Were you able to fix it ?

I reset my phone, and it fixed it for a couple of days, but now it is sluggish again. Very frustrating!!

I am on a 12 and same issue after update to 18. I see Apple has yet to respond to the topic too so I’m stuck ugh

Try restarting your phone. That worked for me, and it was a couple of weeks before the issue reoccurred. It’s not a permanent fix but it does give the software a chance to reset.