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

iPhone 4s arrived by mail today. Turned on Siri via Settings/General. Asking REALLY simple questions like "What is the weather?" and Siri has not responded ONCE with an answer other than:


"What was that again?"


"Sorry, something's gone wrong. Can you try that agan?"


"Sorry, I didn't get that."


"Uh oh. Something's wrong. Can you try again?"


SO frustrating and disappointing. The microphone doesn't seem like the problem, as it is able to record audio elsewhere.


Is anyone else experiencing this issue with Siri?

iPhone 4s-OTHER, iOS 5, brand new iphone 4s

Posted on Oct 14, 2011 4:36 PM

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Oct 15, 2011 8:50 AM in response to hannahat

Just called a friend of mine who has an older iphone and she said my number came up as blocked even though I didn't change numbers and I'm in her contacts. She's on AT&T just like me. So makes me wonder if something screwy is going on with AT&T's network if her iphone isn't able to recognize my number. And is that problem also affecting Siri?

Oct 15, 2011 8:56 AM in response to hannahat

I told everybody Apple would not ship this feature unless they nailed it - well something was nailed but it seems to be us - I am having the same issues - works, then not and only over wifi. I started talking crazy to the phone and yelled "if you don't work pretty soon I am taking you back to the Apple store." And Siri said "OK, here are the locations of the closest Apple Stores."

Oct 15, 2011 9:05 AM in response to hannahat

Got my iPhone yesterday about 1:30 pm PT and Siri was working great. Played with it until about 5 pm and than she stopped working. Waited and waited.... Finally took the advice to shut off Siri, reboot phone then restart Siri and it started working again. Went to bed last night around 10 pm and got up this morning at 7 am and it isn't working again. I tried all the reboot tricks listed in this thread and none of them are working this time. Not sure what the issue is but it sure would be nice to know that Apple has all of their experts working to resolve the issue. And when possible give us an estimated fix date and time.

Oct 15, 2011 9:20 AM in response to phqnkmj

SIRI Voice recognition NOT working at all. Siri replies "I'm having trouble connecting to the network" everytime despite having a full 5 bars and WIFI access to the internet. SIRI did work an hour or two ago but she was EXTREMELY slow to respond to simple requests questions or dications.


I have the 4S with Verizon using it in Los Angeles CA on 3G. Please post if you're having similar issues. It was working yesterday Oct 14th but it was working very poorly (very slowly), and now, its just not working at all. I have tried disabling SIRI and restarting the phone then reenabling SIRI which other users here have recommended. This does not fix the issue whatsoever. The issue this morning might be a complete outage. Is this a Verizon issue only or is every carrier having the same issue? Please post your experience because Apple Tech support is closed. We have to work together to figure this out. Local time is 9:09AM Pacific Standard Time Oct 15

Oct 15, 2011 9:59 AM in response to hannahat

I can confirm disabling SIRI, rebooting, re-enabling SIRI fixed the "Uh oh! Something is wrong" errors. I was asking it questions (some quite offensive lol) all night long and it was working great, but now all I get is "Sorry, I am having trouble connecting to the network."


I'm sure that's Apple's issue and not my phone at this point. BTW, for fun.. when it does start working again.. Ask Siri "Will you marry me?" The response is quite funny.

-Keith

Oct 15, 2011 10:06 AM in response to hannahat

As of right now, Siri is useless. I just asked it the weather. It couldn't connect to the network. So then I turned it off and then back on again, and asked it again. Then it responded. It would've been easier and taken less time just to use the weather app. Unless this can be sorted out and fixed, Siri could be a huge flop for Apple. I'm definitely returning my iphone 4s if this remains an issue. No reason to pay $200 for a slightly faster version of my iphone 4. My iphone 4 was already running a little faster with ios 5 on it, so I'll just go back to that configuration.

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

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