Siri Won't Launch Apps

I recently updated both my 4S and iPad 3 to 6.1 and restored from backup and I'm having the same issue. apps are not being recognized. my 4S doesn't see *any* apps including the default built in apps like calendar or clock, and the iPad 3 recognizes only the built in apps but can't find any of my third party apps...

Is there any update to this issue?

Thanks,

I'm having similar issue on my 4S, Siri seems to open only the Apple apps, other than the apple apps I get the message "You don't seem to have an app name 'the name of the none apple app'."

I try to open facebook, and you see the question recognized by siri and spelled correctly but when it opens the app it opens Passbook instead of facebook! it's frustrating! iphone 4s, ios 6.1.1 clean restore ...what's going on!

Apple don't seem to get their act togther anymore!😟

This happened to me today- siri was working normal at work- got in my car and Siri wouldn't lunch any apps, turned Bluetooth off and still didn't work- got home and back on wifi and Siri worked again. If I kill wifi at home Siri stops opening apps, turn wifi back on and it's fixed. Looks like a network issue. I'm on AT&T on 4s. Siri works normal on my iPad on Verizon LTE. Odd

Hey Guys,

I fixed the problem on my iPhone 4S. I had upgraded to 6.1.1 from 6.1 (but I don't think it's really related to 6.1.1) the main difference was that when i unlocked and setup my device for the first time right after the restore to 6.1.1 (prior to restoring from an itunes backup), I setup icloud instead of selecting "skip this step".

I had to go through the setup wizard because I "escaped from certain shackles". Not sure how many of you here do the same.

In anycase, Try going through the setup wizard on the device prior to restoring from a backup (either itunes or icloud), and make sure to go through the icloud setup (don't skip it!).

FYI, I also tried resetting network settings and that didn't help. I was also getting battery issues which prompted me to upgrade to 6.1.1. No battery issues anymore (even though I restored from a backup)

Whats up guys,

I started with this problem today, I have an iPhone 5 iOS 6.1.2....

I was about to restore to try to solve this problem but fortunately I read this post and for me the problem was solved just turning off wifi. Siri do not open my apps when I am conected to my wifi network, if I'm over 3G it works perfectly.

Thank you! Solved deleting

/var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-045.csstore

(Deleting the other file cause disappear of all non-standard app icons, so i restored it to my old one after the reboot)

I have the same problem with Siri not being able to launch any apps. I have iphone 5 and IOS 6.1.2. I recall that I did a sync or backup to icloud and then doing a backup to my macbook using itunes. I think that this might have created the problem.

Thank you for the solution of deleting the two cache files and restarting. This did fix the issue for me.

I have turn on cell data, turned off cell data, turned on wifi, turned off wifi, enabled siri, disabled siri, hard rebooted, all in different combinations and different orders. NOTHING HAS WORKED 😟 I just got this phone today. Please help! Why is this happening? Why?

I had the same problem too, but then I turned Siri off, turned off the iPhone, turned the iPhone back on, and then I turned Siri back on. I tried this on the iPad too and now they both work fine. :) Good luck.

Have you jailbreaked your device before?and you ask siri to launch cydia app and suddenly all your apps cannot be launched through siri?i have this same kind of problem but now it is solved.First you need to go into iFileand find these 2 files/var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-045.csstore /var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist

Once you find them don't delete them just in case change them to /var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-045.csstore.bak /var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist.bak

This basically renders them invisible, you can go and delete them later, always good to keep a backup

Once you have changed the name back out to Springboard and do a full reboot. Upon reboot you will notice all your stock apps are there and your installed cydia apps but NO appstore apps. DONT PANIC

Just sit back and chill as iOS will slowly rebuild your apps on the springboard. I have over 300 apps on mine so it took a couple of minutes. Once all your apps are showing give Siri a test.. Should work perfect.

Then go back into iFileand removed the filesyou changed to .bak

Done.. lemmie know how you go

If you have iFile or use iphonebrowser you can try this fix from Skander.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4805003?start=0&tstart=0

It never occured to me to ask Siri to launch something. I ask Siri to Open Facebook and she obliges. Maybe ask her to open something and she'll like you better?

Mine's too... Please reply if someone knows how to fix it..Highly appreciated..

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Siri can't find any of my apps on my ipad 3 or contacts or settings. So far the only thing Siri found was the weather.