Siri not responding on iPhone 16 Pro Max

As suggested here 7 Proven ways to Fix Siri not responding on iPhone 16 pro Max I went to Siri in settings, there clicked on Siri responses and choose prefer spoken responses instead of automatic, after this as suggested did a force restart and now it's working fine.

EXACT same issue since out of the box on my iPhone 16 Pro. I've tried all of the suggestions listed here. The only thing that helps is powering off and back on, but for me that's been a temporary fix and it goes right back to not working. Even having issues with voice to text in messages and when I activate Siri by holding side button it still doesn't respond at times. Super annoying. Hoping there's an update soon to resolve it.

I am losing my mind trying to get Siri to work on my iPhone 16 Pro. All these help articles and responses trying to gaslight us into thinking we don't know how to check settings or troubleshoot the issue. It's not me, it's You, Apple. Please fix this.

Go to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Turn on > Reboot the phone.

Now “Siri,” Hey Siri” commands will work. You may turn off the Content & Privacy Restrictions in Screen Time.

I’m having the exact same problem on my iPhone 16 Pro Max. Hopefully they’ll get this bug fixed.

Happening to me too. I guess I'm glad it's not just on my device....

Didn't realize how often I used this each day before it stopped working.

Same issue on iPhone 16 pro. Also voice to text stalls. Not pumped about spending so much money on a new phone that doesn't work as well as my iPhone 12 lol

I tried the first three solutions from this article on how to fix Siri not responding on iPhone 16 and 16 Pro Series. However, when I reached the fourth step, I realized that Siri and dictation were disabled in my content privacy restrictions, I enabled it but still that haven't solved the issue, I went ahead to Settings > Siri > talk to Siri and there swtich to "hey siri" from “Siri” or “Hey Siri”, to which a Enable Siri popup appear, i enabled it and now its working absolutely fine.

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Same thing is happening to me. Driving me nuts. I didn’t realize how much I use Siri!

I use Siri all the time and same issue here. iPhone 16 pro. She’s just dead at this point. Restarting my phone barely even works anymore now, resetting Siri and going through the 5 prompts works but not for long. Definitely a bug with IOS 18.

My 16 pro max SIRI IS NOT RESPONDING TO COMMANDS. ONLY SIDE BUTTON

It happened with the update- SOLUTION- go into settings scroll down to Siri click that then click Siri responses, most likely it’s on automatic so switch it to prefer spoken responses then power phone off and back on and try it out!! This worked for me and hubby!

Settings, scroll down, Siri, turn on Talk to Siri. This fixed it for me

My issue was fixed with the new iOS 18.0.1 software update

I had similar issues until I rebooted the phone.

I tried turning Hey Siri off/on, retraining, switching from “Hey Siri” only to “Siri or Hey Siri”; all without any luck. On a whim, I powered off the phone and tried again once it came back up. Things are now working as expected.