Siri has lost its grip on speech to text (dictation).

What in the heck is Apple doing about Siri? This update 26.3.1 has absolutly wrecked the tiny bit of hope Siri was holding onto when it comes to speech to text (dictation). I speak with a slight southern draw but not so bad that Siri will type Homewrecker instead of hominy. I dictated this to my wife with Siri, about Siri: "There is not one sentance that you can dictate now that Siri will get right". Siri dictates this instead : "If not, one thing that you could dictate it until you get a hole, right" With my southern draw, I speak slow - not fast. This has progressively gotten worse over the last major patches.

iPhone 17 Pro Max, iOS 26

Posted on Mar 23, 2026 3:22 PM

18 replies

dcssteve

Level 1

42 points

Jul 28, 2026 10:27 AM in response to RealDealDaddy

I have an iPhone 15 Pro. With the latest update of iOS 26 speech dictation is unbelievably horrible. It misses words and tries to guess at what I’m saying with no accuracy. It is practically unusable. I spend more time editing my speech to text and I typed it myself. Often it reverses meaning changing the word can’t for can which can get you into a lot of trouble. It is interesting how one of the richest companies on earth cannot master this. It is complex but, your implementation is horrible.

Sep 11, 2026 10:41 AM in response to RealDealDaddy

Siri has been left in the dust now that we have all the other LLM’s. Can’t even understand simple sentences for dictation purposes. Siri is old, tired and outdated.

Apr 21, 2026 11:34 AM in response to CC Street

CC Street wrote:

Come on Apple. Take care of business.

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Siri has lost its grip on speech to text (dictation).