I've had this happen three times where my Apple Watch will not speak, at all. I've turned VoiceOver off and on. I've used the three-finger double-tap to turn speech off and on, and still nothing. Haptics are working, but absolutely no voice. I have the Apple Watch 8 and I think it's WatchOS9.2. I've had to unpair and pair it again all three times. VoiceOver volume says 100 percent and haptic volume is 100 percent.
Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you so much.
By kjw810, 18 January, 2023
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watchOS and Apple Watch Apps
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Rebooting your watch should resolve the issue
Hey there,
I've also had this issue a number of times, basically all audio (including VO speech and sounds) will stop playing, but as you pointed out, VO and other haptics continue to work as expected.
The good news is that you shouldn't have to unpair and reset your Apple Watch to recover from this. Instead, next time this happens press and hold the Digital Crown and Side Button on your watch for a few seconds, which will trigger a reboot of watchOS.
Once the watch has rebooted, audio should once again be fully operational.
Also if you encounter this often, please do consider reporting the issue to Apple either via https://feedbackassistant.apple.com or by Emailing accessibility@apple.com.
HTH!
Robin
resetting the apple watch.
I have had this happen too and in a different post it has been suggested that resetting the apple watch should help. Of course I have not been able to test this because now my watch won't do it probably because it knows I have a fix. but many have responded that this works.
Hole the crown and the side button together for about 15 to 20 seconds. You will not lose any data it is more like a cold reboot.
it's a bug. how to solve.
It's a bug. hold power and crown for about 10 seconds and it will reboot and you will get the voice back again. I've had this issue now since July of last year.
Thank you for the information on how to reboot!
I'm glad I stopped here on the Apple Watch forums. Thanks for the information on rebooting with dc and side button. However, what if , for example, you use the side button for Emergency SOS? wouldn't that immediately call them--the EMTs? I've done this before on my phone, of course purel on accident, dummy me, due to VO not speaking and all. However, that's before I reset the SOS feature to another setting. If you don't use the side button on the watch for said feature, will the feature you described do the inevitable and call the EMTs? I'm just worried it would, as "hold the side button" is currently "disabled." on my watch. Keep in mind this is a much older watch, possibly version 2 or whatever. It's running OS six, of course with the word Watch before it. Does the dc/side button fix for the reboot work on all Apple watches? If not, I'l have to think of something else for if this happens to me.