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

Sounds like the same experience I had. Siri worked well until I tried to dictate a text message. Then it stopped responding and has not worked since.

Hi,

I tried the hard boot, restting, disabling and all the above. Nothig,

Shame, cause it was working fine until last night. Sent emails to friends via Siri, texts, everything. Wored like a charm. Then....dead. Cannot onnect to server at all for processing apparently.

I believe this is an Apple issue, not on the phone, given that it worked fine for hours. I have read someone suggest it might have to synching with iTunes, which I did not do until late at night. I set up my phone with iCloud. It worked fine without a glitch as well.

But problems did start after iTuned tethered synch....so I wonder....

ANyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

Your problem is now gone. You made some silly pronouncements and you were wrong. Maybe you understood something finally.

Siri is beta.

LOL! Yea that problem is solved. But I placed my phone on table and suddenly it started showing SIM not found..

I am not getting a good feeling with this phone.. I took the sim out and placed it in five times and it worked finally!

I was about to get ready to go to apple store and it worked!

Too many people jumping too many guns too soon.

"Terrible unboxing experience -- can't believe Siri was disabled by default and buried under general settings when I set-up the phone from my back-up. "

Really? That constitutes a "terrible experience" for you? I'm sure it makes some sense that a service that collects and aggregates personal information about you, drains battery faster, and is a beta — is probably not something you enable by default. Especially when the iPhone setup assistant asks if you'd like to enable it.

Zebra, I know you are a big apple fan (so are we) but in all excitement people start feeling stupid when things don't work. And its Apple... Nobody expects this type of service with an Apple product.

Hope all remains well with Siri's servers now .. May be they will roll out a patch pretty quickly to fix bugs too...

Another thanks DreamJob. Your fix works!!!

What bugs? So far we saw a server outage. If there are bugs, and there probably are, they are not in this discussion/thread.

All I said is "spend a few moments to think before posting silly stuff on these boards."

I have to disable and re-enable in order to get mine to work. Then after a little while I will go to use it and it is not working again (cannot find network or just spins forever). Disabling and re-enabling makes it work for some time and then out it goes.

I just hope it gets addressed as it is obviously a bug. Now the question is since its not everyone will apple ignore it or fix.

OK,

I was having the same issue as those that could not connect with Siri.

I can confirm that turning off the contacts option in iCLoud in Settings and disabling Siri, rebooting and enabling both again will allow Siri to work.

This may well just be a small unexpected bug that Apple will fix eventually. I believe it has to do with iCLoud more than with "contacts"specifically, though Siri does use contacts a lot for most things it can do.

Glad it worked and hope this helps others.

Thanks!

Did not work for me. However, Siri is now much faster at telling me that it cannot connect to the network. It used to take a minute of spinning, now it knows right away.

Siri is overloaded. As much as some folks, who apparently live in a perfect fantasy world of instant gratification, love to throw tantrums over these kinds of inconveniences, the reality is such events happen regulaly to most tech companies on launch - Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, Google have all experienced this type of situation. Servers are designed to handle normal-to-heavy usage, not the burden of millions people - at the same time - upgrading an OS, performing the heavy data of initial syncs with the cloud, overuse of Siri due to the fascination of first-time discovery of a new technology, etc. Apple has done its best. Perhaps users could be more reasonable and wait a day. But I guess that would be an unreasonable request, right? Usage will return to normal levels soon and these seemingly life-altering inconveniences, caused by a technology that essentially didn't exist two days ago, will be resolved.. I'm sure this is the reason Apple chose to wait to release the whole iTunes in a Cloud service. Nonetheless, word is Apple is adding hardware right now to handle the overload.

Relax, go talk to a real person rather than Ms. Siri and life will progress soon enough.

YOure welcome... I am enjoying Siri... Works way better than android

Siri has worked exactly twice for me in the last 24 hours. It wasn't even activated by default, it had to be turned on in Settings first, which wasted a lot of my time right there. When I turned it on, it didn't work at all, so I followed the hints online and turned Siri off and back on again. That woke it up for a short period of time and I was able to ask it two questions successfully Saturday morning, though the lag was so bad I could have done the work faster by typing.

Since then, Siri has done only one of three things since this morning:

1) Endless glowing circle around the microphone, with no response until I hit the home button.

2) "Sorry, I am having trouble connecting to the network."

3) "Sorry, I'm having a problem."

Not impressive and completely unusable. I've wasted more time trying to get it to work than it will save me for the next 2-3 months (if ever) I'd guess.