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Siri raise to speak not working

I have it set on the watch. Raising my wrist and all I get is the watch face.

Posted on Sep 17, 2018 10:37 PM

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Posted on Sep 19, 2018 4:23 AM

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.

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Dec 15, 2018 12:44 AM in response to mrhoni

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!

Jan 26, 2019 6:34 AM in response to seanfromllanelli

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.

Siri raise to speak not working

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