AirPods Siri activation not working

I just figured it out!- you should have the press home for Siri checked.if you messed around those settings and have turned off; turn it on again and everything will be magic again.

I was stuck on this too. Make sure to have Siri turned on to respond to "Press side button for Siri". It's a setting in the Siri settings that can be turned on or off. Also make sure to have "Allow Siri When Locked" turned on as well. Hope this helps and saves you a trip to the genius bar.

Be sure that your settings are correct. While you have the AirPods in, goto Settings->Bluetooth... Click the ℹ next to {your airpods}. You should see a settings menu that looks like this screenshot. Be sure to select 'Siri' under the 'Double-Tap on Airpods' section. If this is selected and it's not working, make a Genius Bar appointment at your local Apple Store. Good luck!

I was told by an Apple support person that this is caused because the watch and iPhone are connecting at the same time. He had me disable the bluetooth connection with my watch and everything worked fine. My own experience supports this, at least sometimes! When I go to airplane mode on the watch, Siri works every time. However, today I went to Settings>Bluetooth on both Watch and iPhone and as soon as I opened the airpod case, both the watch and phone connected AND Siri worked! Furthermore, Apple's own website contradicted what the support guy said: Use your AirPods - Apple Support (look under "Listen with your Airpods") it explicitly says both are connected at the same time.

Regardless, Siri works fine when I am not connected with the watch and only works some of the time when I am connected to both. Apple needs to fix this! I shouldn't have to put the watch in airplane mode (effectively turning off Bluetooth) everytime I want to reliably use Siri on the Airpods

I have the exact same problem and apple is no help. Told me to make a reservation at the apple store or mail them in. Have not had the chance yet.

That's a shame. Works for me every time now.

Are we sure it's capacitive input? And not a motion sensor or sound sensor wanting to hear a thump?

Yeah same problem i have with iphone X on my iPhone 7 it used to work but now isn’t working with iphone x

I was having the same problem. I assumed it was a touch sensor (and maybe it is) but was having spotty feedback with light "touch" double taps. However, if double tap more aggressively (like a piano key) the feature works consistently. I think it may be because the double tap relies in part on the accelerometer, but I'm not sure. Maybe mine is defective too.

For me if I configure the double tap to play/pause it works all of the time. It's when I configure it for Siri that it fails most of the time. It seems like if I am actively using the phone, I'm typing on it with the display active etc, then Siri will activate just fine when I double tap. But if I'm just sitting listening to music then the double tap never seems to invoke Siri. I have no idea what to do to address the issue. I'm guessing this isn't an issue with the AirPods but some sort of an issue on my phone.

Ok. What I found is that you need to be sure your phone is setup to allow Siri from the lock screen. I wish this wasn't necessary. I don't really like to allow Siri from the lock screen because I end up with Siri being invoked when I don't want it to. But if I enable Siri from the lock screen then invoking sirs from the AirPods works every time.

You may have figured this out but I just got my pair and was having the same issue. I had turned off Siri from being accessed on the lock screen previously. I noticed it was only working when my phone was unblocked and was driving me crazy. Once I turned this option back on in Siri settings they now work perfect!!

Think Ive got It. If the AirPods aré working with the iwatch. Then, the Siri wont work with the double tap. They habe to be working with the iPhone. You can change It in the Iwatch Music selecting the source. iPhone-Iwatch

I have the same problem.

I can make Siri WORK again if I go back to the Bluetooth settings on my iPhone -> press the "i" icon next to the airpods -> switch to the play/pause option and then re-switch to the SIRI option again.

It only works for a while until the airpods' controls become unresponsive again... Pretty annoying

Go to iPhone Settings > Tap on Bluetooth> tap on ℹ next to the AirPods name and make sure double tap settings is ON for Siri. and it not selected for Play/pause or off.

i hope, this would be work in your case.