siri can't take any requests right now

I'm on ATT and got the phone over the weekend. Siri worked fine until this morning. I have done nothing with the phone. It flat out doesn't work. I've done everything and it still doesn't work. I will try a restore one more time before heading back to the Apple Store. Also I am having really poor battery life with my 4S. Ugh.

I updated to OS 5.0.1 this morning (after just getting my phone Saturday) and now Siri won't work. I have tried everything and it just keeps saying the same thing.

This is completely unacceptable and I am very disappointed in Apple. Where is someone from Apple with a response?

I just dropped $300 upgrading my 4 to a 4S and now I can't use Siri?

I'm on AT&T and had issues. I don't think the problem is with the carriers, it is just with Apple. As for the person who is frustrated, keep in mind that Siri is in Beta, not an official release. I realize that is little consolation. However, using a Beta program to promote a product is very underhanded, so shame on Apple for this.

Since I just bought the phone I was able to get free phone support. What fixed the issue for me was resetting all settings.

Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings

Siri is now working fine for me again. Hope this helps fix others Siri issues!!!

You do NOT have to reset all settings... I called apple support and on the third attempt I got a honest Apple employee, who also spoke english, who also was competent. He said you only need to reset NETWORK SETTINGS... which I did, and Siri is working perfectly now after over 36 hrs of not working.

I hope this helps ya'll too.

I just bought my 64gb 4S yesterday and Siri hasn't worked at all in the 24 hours I've had the phone. I am on Verizon. I've done a soft reset, a software reset (via iTunes), and I have reset the network settings and nothing has worked. I have tried it on wifi and on the cellular network. When I called Apple tech support, they basically said "tough ****. It's in Beta testing". Not really sure about you guys, but that seriously ****** me off. Like someone else had said, using a feature that is in testing as the main selling point is underhanded, and to be perfectly frank, complete ********.

I've also had issues regarding reception; it drops signal unexpectedly, then jumps to "extended" or "roaming" or just goes to "no service" after having full signal. I am planning on heading to the Apple Store in the next couple days and swapping the phone unless it starts working properly. The signal issue seems to be happening less and less frequently, but in all honesty, it shouldn't be happening at all.

I tried to edit my above solution, resetting network connections.... turns out that one doesn't work either. It worked for a few commands and then back to same ol paperweight new phone. I can't believe Apple would do this. All of you who are saying this is a beta product, and telling folks to calm down need a reality check. Apple advertized Siri as one of, if not THE biggest feature to the 4s over the 4, and it is a catastrophic failure. Calling it beta, in tiny print doesn't justify the horrific problems users have experienced. I hope apple can come up with a patch or resolution within the next 25 days before my window to return this pos passes by. If they can't fix it, I'll be happy to return this and go back to my 3gs. I got a 4s because of my battery getting worse on my 3gs, 4s is a failure there, it lasts a bit less than my 3gs did... and siri, which is non functional more than it is functional.

Just got off the phone with Apple Care. The tech asked me to reset Networks settings...Settings/General at the bottom of General press Reset, then press Reset Network Settings. That did not work. Then he asked me to reboot the phone (press the on off switch on the top right until you can turn the phone off), then turn it back on and now it works. I imagine will end up doing this a few times.

When I probed, it appears that between the traffic load on the servers and ongoing maintenance and upgrades they underestimated the load on their servers. I also realized that this is a Beta version and if I take the longer term view, it is so neat that I can't wait for them to issue the final relase so it will have all of the bugs worked out. I will pretend that I have my old 4 and be happy when SIRI works. They just rushed a good product to market too quickly.

I still think that Apple products are great.

They had me just reset my Networ Settings first and that did NOT work. Then we Reset All Settings and it did.

"They just rushed a good product to market too quickly."

Unfortunately, this isn't the first time this year Apple has done this. Same thing with Final Cut Pro X, and Lion.

I'm really beginning to miss Steve.....

Reset all settings did it for me. I had disabled Siri the other day when I was troubleshooting battery life issues. Apparently this removes all knowledge of you from Siri's database and only way to get it back is reset all of your settings. Ugh. What would Steve do?

I ended up doing a 'Reset All Settings' and now Siri is working. My network connection has been doing a lot better today after a 'Reset Network Settings' as well. Maybe I didn't get a defective unit afterall.

I got assistance and what worked for me was

-hold the home button down to bring siri up

-then hold the sleep/awake button down and

once the slider appears as if it is going to shut down then

-click cancel.

You will then appear at home. Try using Siri it should now be working

Still not working. Thanks for tip though

Thank you! It worked for me~