Voice dictation feature - microphone

apple battery by Genius Bar. Appreciate you trying to help although it is the elephant in the room…. iOS 26 not ready for primetime. The bugs/issues are plastered all over the web.

When you use the microphone on your iPhone to dictate into an app, it engages certain APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Specifically, it uses the iOS speech recognition API to convert spoken words into text. This process involves:

1. API Activation: The app utilizes Apple's speech recognition framework, which is part of the iOS operating system. This framework listens to and processes audio input.
2. Cloud-Based Processing: Depending on settings and availability, the audio may be sent to Apple's servers for processing, especially for more accurate recognition.
3. Data Handling: Once processed, the transcribed text is sent back to the app for display or further action.

This activity involves a combination of local processing on the device and potentially server-side processing. When it stalls-out, one of the above events is causing a never ending loop that eventually fails. It has absolutely zero to do with the battery.

Battery is band new. No issues with battery. Even if the phone has 10% power, it has power. Like i said, one minute it works, the next it does not. WiFi connection is great. This is what it could be: Network connection, server-side issues, or SOFTWARE BUG. It is most likely iOS 26. I have used this feature on all my iPhones with zero issues in the past, ever since iOS 26, there are more bugs than a summer picinic.