iOS8 downgrade caused Siri to now keep asking "just to confirm, you want to call" on every call request. Anyone else having this annoying issue?

No I don't have an annoying issue. I like the way it works.

When you say Apple doesn't want to help what did they say when you contacted them?

I have 20+ users on various iPhone versions running ios 8.0+ and they are all having this same issue with Siri saying "Just to confirm you'd like to call...." every time you use her for voice dialing.

I'm contacting apple technical support to report it as a bug... it occurs on my new iphone 6+ running 8.1 as well.. either it is a new "feature" or a major bug that is annoying as heck!!

Add me to the highly irritated list. Siri is more than useless with this bug/feature.

For some reason this only seems to happen on majority of the contacts... not all - and the number trick to fix the issue -- no longer works! Also have tried to reset all settings as well as reboot/restart the phone a few hundred times... NO DICE!…

STILL HAVE THE SAME EXACT ISSUE - SIRI CONFIRMS 99% OF THE PEOPLE YOU ASK HER TO CALL -- EVEN THOUGH I CAN TELL HER TO TEXT MESSAGE SOMEONE, AND IT WORKS FINE!

Happening to me also. Never had a problem like this before. Had a ton of iPhones and all the same Exchange contacts I do now. Upgraded to iOS8 and I swear I can't make a single call without her asking "Just to confirm..." Literally makes me crazy.

I, too, had been suffering through Siri's relentless need to confirm calls that recently she (heh!) just called.

Applecare support told me to backup and restore from that backup. I balked at the need to spend so much time reloading my music and docs, and also asked what good would it do to replace the phone's data with a copy of what was there after the problems began.

"Good question." was the reply. No answer, though.

I told her I had to go, hung up, turned Siri off and back on, and the problem disappeared. It's been nearly 72 hours and all's well.

Of course, YMMV, but it's painless and worth a shot.

I hope it works for you, too. And I hope Apple will better train their advisors to give more informed advice.

Regards,

Maurice

I'm having the problem too. with roughly 1/3 of my contacts.

You'd think that once I say "yes" then Siri would learn how to recognize that command in the future. But no, it keeps happening with the same contact over and over...

Did you try, as I suggested in the post above yours, turning Siri off then on?

Yes, I tried turning Siri off and then on again. Did not help in my case, but thanks for double-checking. 🙂

I had this problem until I got mad and told here (******* stop asking me Just to confirm, you want to call She has not ask again.)

I had tried all possible solutions: telling her to stop saying it, putting contacts in Favorites, changing phone # & changing it back.

The only thing I have found to work is by giving contacts a nickname or relationship. For example, if I say "call Jay C***", she asked to confirm. But if I say "call my husband" she just calls him without confirming. You have to tell her, though, what the relationship is.

I literally just broke my phone siri made me so mad. Anger issues...probably... but she confirms every time when I call my girlfriend and thats who I call the most. She will text to that same person without any confirmation but not call. Why is making a phone call the hardest thing to do on an iphone??

OK - I was so angry when Siri began to confirm every call made by asking "Just to confirm, you would like to call ????????" (unless they were in my contact Favorites) that I had to find the answer to this Major Pain and here it is:

I am not 100% sure what caused this to begin with - Possibly restoring a backup from an iPhone 4S to a new iPhone 6!?

Here is what I did to resolve this issue for every contact that I performed the below on:

Open your contacts and edit the contact phone number by simply adding a "1" to the end of it (i.e. from (352) 555-1212 to 35255512121) and save it. Edit the contact again and simply remove the "1' from the end of the phone number and save again.

Now when you ask Siri to call that contact number, you are not asked to confirm the call.

Somewhat time consuming but it has worked on all contacts that I have performed the above on.

I too am experiencing the annoying confirming when placing a call via Siri. I have my wife's full name listed.. If I say.. Call Yvette Little- Mobile, I get from Siri, just to confirm, you would like to call Yvette Little".. Now if I use the "related name" like Call my Wife- Mobile, I don't get asked to confirm. I have my sister setup with her full name and "related name" = "Sister". Whether I say her full name and or the "related name" I don't get asked to confirm. This enhancement need some tweeking.

Try this; won't hurt a bit.

Could it be that the actual phone number for your wife's mobile number is somewhere else in your contacts?

Can't say why, but removing all duplicate mentions of phone numbers has fixed my issue.