Siri raise to speak not working

I thought I was having the same problem, then I discovered I have to raise the watch really vertical (as with the screen "L perpendicular" to the floor) and speak with a medium-to-high volume voice.

I had the same issue with Siri Raise To Speak not working and had initially formulated my frustration in an earlier response in this thread.

I solved my own problem by accident.

1) I already had Siri Raise to Speak enabled in Settings in my Watch.

2) I DID NOT have WAKE SCREEN ON WRIST RAISE enabled, however, in Settings on my Watch. After I enabled this feature, all I have to do is complete the wrist raise, my screen then wakes up, and if I start speaking to Siri, it works flawlessly.

I really did not want to have my watch set up to wake on screen raise, but I am under the impression that unless I enable this feature, Raise to Speak with Siri will not work.

This worked for me on my Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular).

Apple Watch s3 gps+cell here I just updated to iOS 5 today. It wasn’t working for me what I had to do is turn off watch and then it back on now it works seamlessly every time... after rebooting it glitched a few times then started working perfecf

It appears that Raise to speak only works with “raise to wake”. I turned off Raise to wake and I could not summon Siri at all. But as soon as Raise to wake was set, Raise to speak started to work flawlessly.

If you still prefers “tap to wake”, you have to tap the watch to turn on the screen, raise your wrist vertically and start to speak. Siri will respond!

I was having the same problems and it does boil down to the orientation of your arm when you issue the command.

I can get it working every time by raising my arm in such a way that I am speaking normally to the digital crown “side” of the watch, with my voice directed “down the back” side of my left hand. Essentially after raising my arm correctly, I can see the display, but envision the watch’s screen facing just over your left shoulder (assuming the watch is on your left arm).

Hope that helps! Unfortunately the whole “I’ll tap you when I’m ready” is still a problem on Series 4...

AjaKat wrote:

I really did not want to have my watch set up to wake on screen raise, but I am under the impression that unless I enable this feature, Raise to Speak with Siri will not work.

That's a good point, and it also applies to "Theater Mode" - "raise to speak" will not activate if Theater Mode is turned on (since it disables the raise to wake feature temporarily).

Up until now the screen was pretty much the entire interface to the watch, so naming the setting "wake screen" made some sense. But technically what it really does is "wake watch" (not just the screen), so of course that includes Siri. I'm willing to bet that watchOS 5.2 renames the setting.

i actually thought the same and posted a response previously but it does actually work. Some comments were correct but you need to do it 'properly' to get it right, it's weird but you get use to it. You have to do it seamlessly when you raise your arm as if your checking the time...you can't just flick your wrist from the side or what too long to speak. so trying lift your arm abut a foot from your face...basically as mentioned if your checking the time then speak clearly. i did so and mentioned 'whats the weather like today' and it came up correctly. Its strange because i swear i was doing the same thing but its how you raise your arm and the type of 'siri' language you'd say. Give it some more tries...good luck

Not working for me in 5.1.3 hey Siri or raise to speak. Working fine before update. Ta

works for me (Series 3, v5.1.3). Even raise to speak behaved correctly, much to my amazement so the obvious solutions are:

Check Siri settings in iPhone settings

Forced Reset watch and iPhone

Unpair and re-pair. Try restoring from backup in the first attempt, if still no good try again with setup as new watch.

Are your watch and iphone correctly paired and on the same wifi network? If you ask for "Hey Siri" it interacts correctly? Make sure your watch is really vertical after raising your arm.

watchOS 5.1.3 has fixed the bug.

alleluja!!

I got the same impression, but then I tried to go where my wifi reception is better. Furthermore you should try to make your question as soon as your arm is still being raised even if the watch hasn't reached the mouth's height, for me it works well now. Or possibly there is some interference in the bluetooth range between your phone and watch?

As @ciscApple just pointed out, watchOS 5.1.3 fixed the bug. At least te spanish talking Siri is working perfectly now.

This was the answer ... been trying to figure out why it hasn't been working properly ... tried changing the orientation of the watch face to vertical as you described ... works every time now.

Thanks!

No, not a proximity sensor and I don't mean that you need to put it right up near your lips. Just closer than you would normally do if you were looking at the time. I think it does either detect the volume (so speaking louder should work too), or by putting it closer to your mouth you may naturally make it more vertical as you suggested.

I took my watch into the Apple store for this issue and the Genius Bar rep said she and numerous friends were having the same issue. She indicated that she had referred the issue to their HQ tech support. This seems to be as a result of the latest OS5 update and hopefully will be resolved soon. I have the series 4 and my brother has the series 3 - happening on both ours..