Siri- "Sorry, I am having trouble connecting to the network".

Does not work, tried several combinations: reboot, reset network settings, turn Siri on/off. Siri is down.

Worked flawlessly yesterday, hasn't worked all morning. The only solution is on Apple. Do a google search, quite a number of people experiencing same problem.

DougSad wrote:

An Apple supreviser told me today that "Siri is a Beta program and that it is a work in progress". She also gave me a second excuse and that was "there might be to many people on the network and that is why I can't connect to the network.

First I have no idea what a Beta program is, she keeps repeating it like know. Second most people I know get paid to test new products, not pay $400 to test a companies product for them. Third the commercial did not say anything about Siri being in the "Test" phase of development.

In general, "beta" means that the product is still in development and may not work as one would expect a final-release product to work.

The Siri feature is clearly marked as beta (see below) on the Apple website. Also, it was stated in the October 4 announcement event, which is viewable on the Apple website, that the service is beta.

The reason for a public release of a product still in development is that, when a larger number of people use something, it uncovers problems and bugs faster. Apple has not made a habit of doing public beta releases. The last one I can think of was the public beta of OS X in 2000.

Same problemo here. I got to work all psyched to show off new iPhone with Siri and, FAIL. My Android friends are not impressed. I tried all the resetting, rebooting etc., nada. Get it together Apple: at least put some sort of announcement on http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/ that Siri temporarily isn't working.

There are a bunch of folks having this problem... I wonder when Apple is going to make a statement? My guess is a server overload. I'm able to utilize 3g and Wifi for all my other apps, so it wouldn't be beyond reason that Siri might have crashed. They never hid the fact that this release was a beta, and unexpected problems often crop up with betas... sort of inherant in the process.

Regardless, it would be nice to hear something back from an actual Apple representative. Give us something. Anything?

I'm having the same problem. I have 2 iPhone 4S and one works fine and one hasn't ever worked with Siri. I have restarted it twice, which didn't help. I'm sure they can be on different servers, but it's odd that the one that works, always works perfectly. It's really an amazing new feature.

After trying EVERYTHING that everyone else has with this same problem (resetting and restarting, etc) I think I solved it! Go to the Siri settings and make sure on the "My Info" you are listed.

When I selected myself, it suddely started working again! Let me know if this works for you.

Actually, Siri servers have been overloaded with all the Apple geeks (includin gme) playing with their new toy at a rate above normal usage. At least that's the logical conclusion considering the epic amount of posts regarding this issue. Otherwise, the beta tag on Siri is more true than we thought, which I doubt considering Apple's high standards on released products. So, a reboot won't worker if the servers are own. I've been intermittent all day. no big deal - things will mellow out and move back towards normal usage.

Siri worked for me right out of the box, then once activated with Verizon, seemed to start getting the network trouble message. Today it has been almost not at all. Could be a coincidence that the all the users of the one million units that sold out on the first day are playing with it... but seems like they should have not only expected that, but built out servers to scale way beyond that... seriously Siri, the only demand on the servers right now are from the early adopters... what's going to happen when all three carriers start shipping units?

This has nothing to do with rebooting. Most Siri processing is happening in the cloud. The service is in BETA (as was announced at press event), so still in a testing phase. Under heavy loads or when Apple is doing maintenance the system stops working for several hours.

Just posting to confirm that I still have nothing on Siri (never worked).

Have done multiple hard and soft restarts, turn siri off, reboot, turn on... all that nonsense.

I think this is not a phone issue, and that reports that "I did this and it started working!" are likely coincidence with being able to slip in through a hole to the servers at that time. Also very possible there's some carrier-based routing to apple's servers that's causing difference in behavior based on carrier and/or geographic location?

I'm in Boulder CO using ATT.

I set a reminder around 7-8 am and then tried to set another reminder after 10am and doesnt work at all. Tried everything above several times. I wonder if the are rebooting the servers for Siri. I wish someone would tell us whats going on. lol

I'm so bummed. I used Siri almost constantly all weekend and then this morning. I turned off wifi to test it on 3G this morning. It didn't work so I turned Wifi back on. Now it still doesn't work! Not once in the last hour. I don't see how it can be a network congestion issue when it didn't give me a server error at all over the weekend and then when I made a settings changed, Siri just stopped working.

I've tried all the "fixes" about turning Siri on and off, resetting network, resetting phone, etc. Nothing is fixing it.

I'm in Oakland, CA on AT&T. Waited almost 3 hrs. for my 4s

yesterday. Siri worked fine last night and early this AM, but around 8:00 AM started with the "having trouble connecting to the network" even though the phone is showing 4 bars. Is she on coffee break? (tried rebooting, didn't work. I've already placed my name in the Siri preferences. . .)

Any other ideas? (She was great last night. . .)

I have the same problem, it started sometimes after 10am EST. Tried rebooting, resetting network settings... Since all other internet functions work ok, I suspect the root cause is somewhere on Apple's side, as they are doing most of the processing in their server farm.

Having the same issue as everyone else. Started about 10:50, EST. Have tried the Network reset and rebooting fixes with no luck. I think Bill in CO is right: All these "fixes" are probably not doing anything and the success stories merely represent coincidence. Patience, I suppose.