Help Siri and keyboard can't hear me

It is a bug. If you go to settings> general> siri and enable "Raise to Speak" Siri will listen to you when you hold the iPhone to your ear even though in the cases of those who are affected by this problem, it repeatedly fails when you just hold the the home button to speak to siri as was normal in iOS 6.

Exact same issue here. What's horrible is I cannot use Siri on the keypad to dictate which I use everyday.

Lift to ear Siri works.

Earbud Siri work.

Bluetooth Siri works.

Home button Siri ---> zilch

same is happening to me,

i tried all possible stuff

soft and hard reset, etc... what i've found in my case is that it is definitely a bug, cause when i turn off siri

voice controls responds but if i try to write a note dictating or ask something to siri does not hear me, however

if i raise the phone it works fine.

im using the latest version 7.0.4 and issue is quite recent, so i think that is something wrong with certain iphones that does not work

my specs

iphone 5 16 GB

IOS 7.0.4

hope it helps

Easy fix for me,

Turn off DND. Then it works 🙂

I have had this problem the last few days. Very frustrating.

Executive summary: In brief, it was a hardware problem: I went to apple store, they check and as I was under the 1 year warranty they replaced my iphone 5.

Details:

Symptoms were strange and same as above: Siri and dictation did not work on the phone itself but did work with headphones. It appeared that neither Siri & dictation could not hear me (the wavy line did not move). The speakerphone also didn't work in that people could not hear me. However, Siri raise to speak worked, voice recording worked, etc. It seemed so bizarre that it could only be a software bug. But not.

Solution: I went to the apple store. They took the phone and checked it out. There was a hardware problem with one of the microphones. There is more than one microphone! One was broken.

There is the microphone on the bottom next to the speaker that makes sounds. This is the regular microphone one talks into. Then there is another microphone, a tiny one, on the back next to the camera. Apparently this one is for videos. Now most applicaitons just use the regular microphone but some applications use both. And Siri and dictation use both. And the little one was broken. Hardware problem. Phone was replaced.

Moral of the story: maybe it could be a software problem, but it can be hardware.

Did you have a very low call volume also? Because I'm having the exact same issue, but in addition to that, I can barely hear the other person on the phone when I'm in the middle of a call.

In my case it turned out to be a hardware problem. I took it to the Apple Store and they replaced the phone.

Same Problem.

- Siri and dictation did not work on the phone itself but did work with headphones.

- It appeared that neither Siri & dictation could not hear me (the wavy line did not move).

- Lift to ear Siri works.

- Earbud Siri work.

- Bluetooth Siri works.

I will restore the iphone, if it doesn't fix the problem I will take the iphone to an apple store.

I don't know if here in Mexico they will replace it or do I have to go to my mobile company,

Hey bro wat is dnd?

I assumed he meant Do Not Disturb...

Hey ! I hope everyone is doing well. Out of nowhere, I had the same problem happen to my mic. iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 8.3. My phone was in my pocket while i was seating, and sometimes I clean my screen my spraying cleaning solution on it - so the sweat (or cleaning liquid) could have gotten inside the microphone in the earpiece (next to the front facing camera) and disabled it. To test this, try recording a front facing video with sound. If it works, then its not the microphone inside the earpiece. If it's very low, static-like, fuzzy, or not working at all, its the mic. I tried tapping it with my finger to no avail, and then I took my phone, held it normally and tapped it against my thigh a couple times... it WORKED! AT FIRST, it made the sound a little better. Then I did some more taps and it fixed it. I can't tell, however, if the sound now has more "Hiss"/white noise than before, (like in all videos...there is that Hum") but over all it sounds much MUCH better. I believe it is back to normal.

Don't break your phone people!

Oh... the old "lets hit it till it works" trick... and it FREAKING WORKED. Lol.

one thing that happened to me was that i have an JBL Onbeat Extreme bluetooth speaker, and even if it is switched off, the ipad connects to it, but no mike or speakers switched on. And so when i try to speak to Siri, it doesnt work because the jbl bluetooth speakers and microphone are both switched off, and even if not, are too far away to her me.

I noticed the problem also because it worked with earpods and not when i took them out. It seems the earpods deactivated the bluetooth connection, but reactivated it when unplugging the earpods again

This worked for me as well... this was driving me crazy any time I didn't have my phone hooked to earbuds of synced to the car! Thanks!!

Try cleaning the headphone port out. I used a piece of a business card and an alcohol swab I did just that and siri started working again. Make sure not to hit the water indicator with the alcohol lol.