Announce calls doesn‘t work

By Jokyboy129, 3 January, 2025

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iOS and iPadOS

Hi,
My announce calls feature doesn‘work anymore. It is activated on my iphone and I have already restarted it several times. I am using IOS18.2. My airpods have the software 7B21. Is there somebody else who has the same problem?

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By Wayne A on Saturday, January 4, 2025 - 20:00

I am running iOS 18.2 on an iPhone 15 Pro. Announce Calls has stopped working on my phone even though I have all the settings turned on. However, it continues to announce calls on my meta Ray-Ban glasses and on my Apple Watch.
Not sure how to fix this.

By Brian on Saturday, January 4, 2025 - 20:00

go to settings, accessibility, Siri, and enable notifications. Then turn on the notification for phone. Now, whether VoiceOver is on or not, when somebody calls you, Siri will announce that person.
It is not perfect by any means, but better than nothing.

By Gar on Saturday, January 4, 2025 - 20:00

Hi,
I've found that it works just fine when voiceover is off, but as soon as you turn it on, it stops. I'm guessing it's a feature rather than a bug, because voiceover will say something at the same time anyway, and may or may not say the name of the person calling.

By Wayne A on Saturday, January 4, 2025 - 20:00

I have phone notifications turned on under the Siri option for accessibility. However, my phone still does not announce calls when VoiceOver is on. As I said, it’s not a huge issue for me because my watch will announce the call. I wonder if there is some conflict because both my Watch and iPhone are set to announce notifications.
Maybe, it’s time for me to contact Apple.

By Brian on Saturday, January 4, 2025 - 20:00

It sounds like there is a conflict. Try disabling notifications for phone, under settings, notifications. Then try enabling notifications under Siri, by going to settings, accessibility, Siri. Do this only for the phone app. You can try other notifications later, but for now just do it for Phone.
See how it works once you get a phone call, with normal notification disabled and only notifications enabled for the phone app.

HTH.