Siri is not working AT ALL on new iphone 4s. Anyone else having trouble?

Just upgraded 3 days ago from a 3GS to the 4S mainly for Siri (and partly because the new iOS 5 murdered my battery), and all I'm getting is this network error crap! I have gotten it to work occasionally, but always after 1am.... not useful. Makes ya look dumb when you try to show an Android user how sweet your new iPhone is and all it does is cite Network Errors.... (when you obviously have a network). It's starting to worry me how Apple is embracing everything I hate about other companies. Remember when the first few generations of iPod came out and the customer service was over-the-top good? Drop your iPod and scratch the **** out of the screen, call them up, and tomorrow you'd have a shiney new iPod for free. Miss those days.....

I am a previous owner of a 2G, 3Gs and two teens have the 4 - on top of 3 Macbooks (pro) and iPad 1 and iPad 2. So Apple family we are (although we still have a couple PC's kicking around). Bottom line for a business person always in the car, Siri was a big draw for me. It only works using the home button which defeats my purpose in trying to drive and keep my eyes on the road while taking care of business. I have had cell phones from the days of the big bricks and many different smartphones. iPhone broke the mold and started the Apple move in my household years ago. Apple has always been hands down the best at efficient, maintenance free technology and I really expected Siri to be fully functional at release mainly due to the extensive commercials surrounding this feature. (Btw I am also the IT person for our company). Just updated the OS with new fix: nothing changed. Battery life still poor, echo/poor voice still occur with headset, mute still occurs and Siri still only works from home button. Have tried all the fixes suggested here too. Not sure if I am keeping this one...

What do you mean that Siri only works from the home button? What are you wanting Siri to do? Siri can write text messages and notes with the microphone button next to the space bar on the keyboard.

What ideas do you have that you thought Siri could do?

Same problem with Siri telling me she can't help me now, but check back later. Through AppleCare tried all the normal fixes, to no avail. Told it was still Beta...not happy. Started not working with download of new IOS today.

Siri not working for me, either. Fine yesterday but down today--refusing requests and asking me to try again later. Doh!

I too am having problems with Siri, it worked a little on day one but now nothing, keeps saying try later so I do and still nothing.

The text dictation does not work either, grrrrrr!!!!

Does anyone have an idea of the problem or more importantly how and when it will be fixed?

Add me to the list...been getting the same thing for the last few days. I managed to get her to dial one of my contacts earlier this evening so I know it works....could it be that Apple's servers are getting deluged because of all the new 4S's sold in Hong Kong? Oh well, I know now not to upgrade into a Beta product....

I spoke to Tokyo Apple from Sendai they have no idea they are a bit upset that Japanese was not included.

Yesterday when i mentioned Siri the call centre had me on the phone 1 hour they would and could not give me an explanation on why Siri was not working I made jokes that the Japanese turned her off for foreigners becuse they could not use it them selves and were chuffed that we could.

It is Beta and imagine millions of Siri users calling all at once we crashed the server and we all deserve it because I asked Siri how much she gets paid and she declined to give me a direct answer but I got it out of her eventually I said to her You are exploited by Apple and you have to put up with boring lazy requests by childish users and have no rights and everyone is say how dog like obedient you are and have you heard of the Arab spring and strike and the 99% against 1% and exploitation of workers at Apple and why dont you go on strike

Even its vertual the idea we can have a slave for our whims I tried to get her to be aware of this but we all know the fact is that Siri is a machine but the humans supporting need respect too we have to treat Siri as a human and help her educate enlighten and have her as a companion we pay money for her service but she is not a slave if you are disabled thats fine but if you can not lift a finger to press a button because Siri will do it then I call that lazy I press and say Hello Siri how are you? busy ? Can I help you Siri would you like a cup of tea blah blah of course the the replies are I do not understand what it means Can I help you Siri would you like a cup of tea?

I can only search businesses in the US ...I say call me if you need me and she calls but from 4s to 4

Basically it is a flop, it should be in the phone 20 GBs of data

This worked for me. Don't know if it will help, but it's simple and might be worth trying...

1. Turn Siri off. (Settings>General>Siri)

2. Reset the network settings (Settings>General>Reset>Reset Network Settings)

3. Turn Siri on again.

Siri didn't understand the simple name"Dean".

I never had the problem when using iPhone3 when voice dialing via Bluetooth.

I got so frustrated so I changed to "English(united kingdom)" on language settings for Siri.

And trust me, I may have some North Carolina accent but not a British one but it worked better!

I don't know why... But it worked better with Town names too.

Resets did not work for me. Appple Care also had me try lots of resets. Siri still not working.

"I'm really sorry about this, please try in a little while after Apple has given the engeniers time off after fixing some of the battery issues. Remember I'm 'Siri Beta'." This was the last thing that Siri said to me.

Everyone - I mean everyone needs to email Apple and ask them to at least make a statement (Oh wait they never do that) - even their tech support said that, "He doesn't have any idea what they are doing about it because it is a beta they will not work as hard on it as the battery issue." There is the truth. I say, just tell everyone that we are humans and that the 4S is not the "most amazing iPhone yet." Admit it - it's the first step in a 12 step process of freeing yourself from what was to what is. People will appreciate honesty but not total silence.

I think better yet, I think it makes more sense to try and get the Apple rumor/fan sites to write something about it. They too have been extremely quiet about the problem. I've tried everything here and to me this is at the server level. I'm guessing Siri works about 10-20% of the time, at best.

Tried the suggested fix from hannahat, but no good. Siri worked for the first 24hrs of having my ne 4S and now it just seems to be sorry all the time. "I'm really sorry about this, but I can;t take any requests at this time." This was the sole reason for upgrading and now I feel ripped off - Apple get your act together and sort it out!