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siri can't take any requests right now

11/19/2011: Siri continues to say, "I'm really sorry, but I can't take any requests right now." She's been saying that since early last evening. Also, voice dictation is not working on my note pad, where it had before.


Does anybody know what's wrong?

Posted on Nov 19, 2011 11:13 AM

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Nov 20, 2011 9:51 AM in response to edaddy

I just bought my second 4S and activated it yesterday. I have been getting the "sorry, can't take requests..." since activating it yesterday. I did not ever have that error message with my first 4S. I thought it was an issue with my new phone but interesting to see others with the same issue. Does it just seem to be recently activated phones, or have some of you had the phone for awhile?

Nov 20, 2011 3:26 PM in response to edaddy

I went for a walk 2.5 hours ago (I live in Colorado) and noticed Siri not working then. I'm till getting the "sorry Siri not taking requests" line. I've rebooted and reset the network, WiFi and Siri still to no avail. I find it funny as was commented on the nationwide outage from early November, that Siri is touted in Apple's TV commercials and when the service is down it's rationalized as being in beta. What poor marketing rolls out a sketchy beta product and advertises them so prominently? I know what "beta" means and accept the ramifications of using it, but this sounds so un-Apple like. I'm on Verizon, running OS 5.01 and this is the first time I've had Siri issues since getting my phone the day they came out.

siri can't take any requests right now

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