iOS 9 Siri no longer beeps, just vibrates.

I can confirm that it also occurs on an iPhone 5s running 9.0.2.

You didn't read the thread - this is how it works now. It's not a bug, it's a new feature. Ask Siri for confirmation.

There isn't one at this time, as this is how Apple intended it to work.

This morning my iPhone 6S would vibrate when activating Siri, so this definitely does work with the 6S, however I was able to break it:

• I disabled all vibrations in Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Vibration
• This properly disabled the vibration when activating Siri
• I re-enabled all vibrations again in the accessibility settings
• The vibration when activating Siri is no longer working even though other vibrations are working such as for notifications

CelticPaddy wrote:

There isn't one at this time, as this is how Apple intended it to work.

Yes, it is:

If Siri doesn't make a sound when you hold down the Home button

On your iPad or iPod touch, Siri will chime when it’s time to ask a question. If you have an iPhone with iOS 9 or later, Siri will vibrate instead. You'll only hear the chime on your iPhone with iOS 9 or later when you're using headphones. Use Siri on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

I also read somewhere in Apple Support that Siri will beep when connected to car Bluetooth, but can't find the citation.

Apple may have the vibe/Home button part wrong, though, either by way of philosophy or oversight. Just my opinion, but I'd like the Home button to give the little haptic double tap when all Vibration is set to Off.

But I agree with silencing Siri in a number of instances. In an environment where conversational levels are permissible, you can just hold the phone as if making a call, and ask/tell Siri to do your bidding. The chime really stands out in situations like this and could easily be annoying. So I applaud Apple's implementation. It would be nice if they just amended that one bit.

I skipped the last to pages of this thread so apologies if this has already been covered.

Hi all! Check this Apple Support article, especially the last passage:

Use Siri on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

If Siri doesn't make a sound when you hold down the Home button

On your iPad or iPod touch, Siri will chime when it’s time to ask a question. If you have an iPhone with iOS 9 or later, Siri will vibrate instead. You'll only hear the chime on your iPhone with iOS 9 or later when you're using headphones.

The release of iOS 9 eliminated the audible tone when Siri was activated by holding the home button, and replaced in it with a double vibration in the home button. You would still get the audible tone when using Hey Siri. I called Apple support and they were not aware of that change in iOS 9, but after making some inquiries, they advised me that the change was by design.

Then when iPhone 6s was released, they removed the vibration in the home button when activating Siri. Now, when you press and hold the home button to activate Siri, you get no audible tone or vibration, just a wavy line at the bottom of the display. Once again I closed apple and was advised that it wasn't design.

This makesno sense to me. I was OK with haptic feedback in the home button rather than the audible tone, but eliminating both makes no sense. Should have been a choice. Audible tone, vibration, or none. I was advised to send feedback to apple at www.apple.com/feedback

Hopefully they will change this in a future update

Siri provides vibration feedback so that you don't need to take your eyes off the road.

wooohooooo Siri beep is back.this worked perfectly thank you!!!!

I Don't know if anyone else is experiencing horrible speaker distortion on sent text message tone and ring tones (particulary Opening tone and Slow Rise which exhibit the "issue" best). When volume is at max or even at 75-80% volume it sounds horribly distorted at the peaks of a tone or sound. It's almost as if the speaker is crackling. I tested the same sounds on a 5s with IOS 9.1 and the sound was NOT distorted so it's obviously a hardware issue but hoping it's a glitch but doubtful. Took the phone to apple the guy (of course) just ran it through some diagnostic test and just told me everything passes. I said well that's great but did you listen to it?! With idk about 100 talking screaming people in the store he puts the phone to his ear and listens to the two tones I mentioned did it the worst and tells me everything sound terrific (I know all mighty apple has no faults) I looked at him and said well there's about 12 people directly around you in a store full of customers and your going to tell me you could hear what I am talking about.."well the phone was right up to my ear" I just shook my head and said your wasting my time and didn't even ask me what he could do for me since the computer told him everything was fine but yet I have found multiple threads on Apples forum site that mention the same type of distortion which didnt affect the 5S. Not sure what to do at this point...this is my 4th 6s from Verizon and they all have done it. I even restored the phone via itunes and no avail. Extremely disappointed...miss my perfect 4s.

Thank you thank you thank you! This was driving me CRAZY!

I asked Siri why she doesn't beep and she tells me "it's more peaceful this way"

This is a BAD thing!! and I guarantee you a lot of BLIND people will be SUEING

filing a civil lawsuit against the ADA & section 503 compliance against this "feature".

why I know this for a FACT...

1. without audio or vibration feedback, a blind, or sight impaired individual has no way of telling when siri is up & ready to listen to commands.

without being able to physically "see" the screen, there's no way to tell..

2. Even fully sighted people can't see their phones at dusk or early mornings when the SUN is right in their faces.

I have tried to use SIRI before in those situations, and without some sort of feedback, "just talking" doesn't work,

because siri doesn't always turn on right away when you hold down that home button. I have trouble with that ALL the TIME.

so if I can't see my screen, how am I supposed to know if siri is listening to me? ok so I just talk, well when siri don't respond back,

when your left wondering, what the heck?? did siri even come up at all? so you try again, same thing happens...

I'm completely serious, people SUE over stuff like that...

if IOS 9 doesn't have enough 'virus like bugs' as it is. Ever since I got this iphone 6s plus back when they first came out,

I've had nothing but problems with the dang thing. I tap on the messages icon & facebook comes up instead, an app that isn't

even on that screen to start with... or I'll be typing and suddenly I get this vibration feedback & the keyboard disappears then

reappears again & what I typed didn't type, so I type again same thing, so I hit the lock button, unlock it, and then its working fine,

but then a minute later same thing happens... and you can't tell me IOS can't get viruses.. I got me a phone here a brand new 6s plus

gold, to PROVE otherwise!!... One day it works fine no issues at all, next day, all these weird hiccups.. and its not like I can just take it back to verizon for an exchange, I'm locked into a 2 year contract & they don't do exchanges on 2 year contracts, and besides that I'm convinced its an IOS or data issue NOT a hardware issue, because some days it works good other days it won't let me type nothing on the screen, its so weird.

No way that this isn't a bug. Why would vibration options still be available and not dimmed when other conflicting options are in-play? If by design, vibration option should be dimmed and not selectable. This is making idiots out of people, causing them to toggle "vibrate on ring/vibrate on silent" options a thousand times, thinking their phones are broken.

Regsrdless of whether this is by design or by a bug, the issue is unacceptable, especially after the few iOS 9 updates.

A lot of people need for both options to work (especially those who are disabled in some manner).

I'm not disabled, but I want both options—Siri Beep when not on silent and vibrate when on silent. Furthermore, there should be a toggle option whether you want Siri to beep or vibrate in either mode. That would make people happy. The current situation is dumb.

that fixed it! Thank you

PPlease be aware that if you turn off vibration, it turns off vibration for anything on the iPhone, and silent mode is now truly silent. I'd rather have the vibration function than Siri beeps. This sound like another iOS bug