Siri raise to speak not working

Thank you for the information with regard to "Theater Mode."

I understand what you're saying about "wake screen" and "wake watch" as well. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple renames the setting at some point either. It makes perfect sense!

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

none of the comments I've read work...it simply does not respond no matter how you have your arm. you shouldn't have to do this anyway. checked my settings etc. and their all as they should be. It just doesn't respond when you lift your hand...whats wrong with this thing

I’ve been meaning to update my post: the raise to speak basically never works when I expect it to no matter what I do with my hands.

To avoid feeling like an idiot every time I start talking to my wrist and nothing happens, I’ve resorted back to hey Siri.

I think this is a hard problem for Apple to solve and they definitely haven’t done so in their first try. I’m sure they figure it out in the next few updates though.

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..

Raise to talk doesn’t work at all for me, and hey Siri if it works at all usually says wait, I’ll tap you when ready then just hangs. Phone has no problem hearing and responding even when I’m practically eating the watch. Worked fine on my series 2. Now regretting selling it

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

Thanks. I see what you mean. Its really fussy though. Maybe works 1 in 10 times. Seems to work better if I wait for the screen to light up before I speak, then I have to have it really close to the mouth unless I want to shout at it. Great idea, needs some improvement to work reliably. I guess I'll stick with "Hey Siri" for now. One thing I really do like i how loud and clear the audio is on the 4 compared to earlier versions. Thanks for the tips.

I had an issue like this for a short while after I got out of the shower with my Apple Watch series 4. Sometimes a tiny bit of water can get stuck in the mic or the speakers, so make sure your watch is completely dry, and use the “water blow out” feature or whatever it is a few times (that’s when you flip on, and then turn off, the water droplet in your watch control center). Started working again for me after that.

Actually it worked badly since the feature was introduced, then my playing a bit (screen vertical to the floor and speaking loud very close to the watch's mike) it did the trick.

But....since last update to 5.1.1 this morning ... it understands and write on the screen what I say but after 2 seconds...2 vibrations and retuns to the watchface......I'm with iPhone 7 and Watch 3 with WatchOS 5.1.1

I also have problems with the feature "Raise to Speak" on my Apple Watch S4 and watchOS 5.1.1. I can see Siri write down my request and, immediately after, fade away on the watch face without any feedback. Resetting both Apple Watch S4 and the iPhone as new (no backup) does not help. It seems that the problem occurs mostly with the Italian or other languages other than English. At the same time on the watch I have no problem with Siri when called by "Hey Siri" or by pressing the digital crown. It is not possible to have this important feature completely non-functional on a such hi-end device. We have paid entirely and Apple must fix it as soon as possible.

Me too ciscApple... I have the watchOS version 5.1.1 and I still have the same issue... When I raise up the watch and speak, Siri write it in the watch but after nothing happens... I'm spanish, so I think I have the same problem.

This is awful. Anybody from support or close to they that can bring us some light on this topic?

Greetings

linkito wrote:

Anybody from support or close to they that can bring us some light on this topic?

This is a user-to-user forum. Apple Support isn't participating here. If you want to speak to them, use the Contact Support link at the top right of every page of these forums.

Sometimes it works but that's not good enough. Pressing crown works all the time but raise to the wrist, siri records command, get a couple pulses on watch and then nothing. In my case case it's turning on/off, changing color of Hue bulbs.

Raise-To-Speak is very unreliable for me too. I think since updating to 5.1.1. Often it doesn’t work at all (even though it works if I say ”hey Siri“). Most of the time if it does work, it dictates what I’m saying but then the words fade away immediately before it can complete the command. I’ve been having so many problems with apple products lately, so much buggier than they used to be.