Siri not responding on iPhone 16 Pro Max

Agreed. I had no problem with my iPhone 11 after five years. I finally decide to upgrade to the 16 pro and quite frankly I’m considering just returning the phone to Verizon.

Same on my iPhone 16 pro 256g frustrating when in the car as spend Hal f of my time there with sending text and directions on maps

Same problem on 16 Pro. I’ve worked with Apple support, tried everything they suggested and everything here. It works intermittently, and then after a few hours stops working. This suggested me a conflict with other software that I might use during the day. Then when I reboot, I clear the problem and it will occur when I load the other software again. Just a thought.

But here’s the latest an annoyance. When it’s working, I can hear Siri through my headphones or through, the ear part of the phone (the part you would use if you held it up to your ear). But she no longer talks to me on speaker. Other software works just fine on the speaker, for example, YouTube. I’ve tried turning off Bluetooth and even disconnecting my headphones. That didn’t work. Any suggestions?

My iPhone 16 Pro Max is doing this, before I would be able to speak after tapping in the window for any app where I can place a message and Siri would type what I am saying and now this has stopped and I made no changes???

-Solution that worked for me- after doing the prompts in “Siri” or ”Hey Siri” and noticing it wouldn’t work still, I tried just the “Hey Siri” prompts and it’s worked pretty well since. I’m sure they’ll fix it in an iOS update.

I just spoke with Apple Support, and resetting my network settings worked. Go to Setting --> General --> Transfer or Reset Phone --> Reset --> Reset Network Settings.

Let's hope it sticks!

Obviously, I'm not the only one with the VERY SAME ANNOYING SIRI PROBLEM!!! Sometimes, I regret that I bought the new iPhone 16 PRO MAX. It should work immaculately for the shy £1600!!! Don't get me wrong, I'm an Apple supporter( investor as I like joking) I spent an obscene amount of money on Apple products over the years. This is the first time I feel I was played by the company! It's that bad!!!

I have tried all that’s been mentioned in this group, what has disappeared is Siri doing your typing for you or if you have an email and you want Siri to read it that has also stopped and nothing that has been mentioned so far fixes this issue, what’s been mentioned to me by Apple is supposedly this new up-and-coming AI might be the cause of this happening

So I’m one of the ones that posted that Siri wasn’t working on my 16 Pro Max. So I finally decided to go into the settings for Siri. There is a setting that says “talk to Siri”. When I hit that, it showed that Siri was turned off. As soon as I turned it on to “ Siri or hey Siri”, it works just fine now. So everyone should go check their settings.

Siri worked just fine for my iPhone 13 Pro Max. If the settings were supposed to be the same when I switched from that to the 16, I don’t understand why Siri was not left on.

Dear Apple,

you never ever remove posts from your customers solely because they point out the obvious—that people have problems with the newest iPhone 16 Pro Max, and I am one of them! No need to hide, no need to delete posts!!!

Have a good day!

Possible fix...

I had this issue with my iPhone 16 Pro Max also. I tried going through all of the published ways to fix it, to no avail. When I did the voice retraining of Siri, it responded, but when finished, it would not respond to the voice wake-up command (the button press worked fine). However, I was able to finally get the voice wake-up to work.

Under Settings | Accessibility | Siri - I turned ON the "Always listen for "Siri"" option (enable face down activation) and it started responding to the wake-up command. When I turned the option back OFF, it still responded to the wake-up command and has been working since.

I can't say that this will work for others, but it did for me. I also can't vouch for the longevity of this fix as I only discovered it less than an hour ago. Hopefully, it will last.

Might be worth a try for others.

I am still having problems with Siri on my 16 pro max. Only way to get it to work is turning phone off and then on. This is a temporary fix as it disconnects soon thereafter. I have tried all of the suggestions to no avail. HELP

So I physically had to go into the settings for Siri. Siri was turned off when I looked. Even though Siri was working fine on my iPhone 13 Pro Max. Ever since I turned it on which has been 2 to 3 days ago, Siri works just fine. So I was suggest that everyone lookin Siri’s settings and see if it’s turned off.

This worked perfectly even though I don’t understand why it doesn’t work just in general. This is why I never buy a brand new phone or update the iOS until they work out the bugs. Lesson learned again at 55 years old thank you for this fix. it is greatly appreciated.

Everyone needs to make sure Siri is turned on.

Go to settings - Siri - Talk to Siri

I had no issues talking to Siri before I upgraded my 13 Pro Max to the 16 Pro Max. I don’t know why when I went to the settings for Siri, I did not know it was turned off until I clicked on “Talk to Siri”. The checkmark was on off. When I clicked on “Siri or Hey Siri” we just essentially turned it on. It’s been 3 to 4 days with no problems with it. So I would suggest everybody go check their settings.