Hi all
I’ve been dealing with this issue for 5 months now, where Siri speech randomly cuts out in the middle of a response. All begun after installing iPadOs 18.4, if I’m not mistaken.
The bug is so easy to replicate, I just have to race up the Siri volume and ask her a question: weather, calendar, mail, information from the Web, jokes, poems or even running a shortcut. If I lower the volume, it rarely happens.
I’m assuming this issue is caused by the continuous listening feature, where Siri keeps listening even while she’s talking or after a request, and I think it can’t be deactivated, or I can’t find a setting to toggle it off.
Today I contacted Apple support; They made me to install a setting profile that supposedly improves Siri and dictation, but it makes no difference. The issue persists unfortunately.
I don’t think my iPhone 13 has this issue, Siri just seems to cut out if someone is talking near me.
Have someone experienced this issue with your iPads? Is it just me?
I’m so curious, wondering if there’s a fix.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
By Manolo las Cardi, 25 September, 2025
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iOS and iPadOS
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Siri
In my iPhone 16 pro max and iOS 26, If I ask Siri to read a notification she does not, also if I am sending message via Siri, she does not read it. She is getting worse within iOS 26. Did not had this issue in iOS 18.6.1.
Try the following
Try these settings, and see if there are any improvements.
1. Go to Settings, Siri, Siri responses, make sure Prefer Spoken Responses, and Always Show Siri Captions are selected/enabled.
2. Next go to Settings, Accessibility, Siri (under the General heading). There are a couple of things here...
2a. Under the SIRI PAUSE TIME heading, set the option to either longer, or longest.
2b. Under the SPOKEN RESPONSES heading, make sure that Prefer SPOKEN RESPONSES is selected.
Make sure that Always Listen for “Siri” is on.
Require “Siri” for Interruptions should also be on.
2c. Listen for Atypical Speech, is an optional setting that you can try, both on and off, to see if you get improved results with speech recognition.
Please note, these settings are from an iPhone users perspective, as I do not own an iPad. So the wording of these settings might be slightly altered, or missing entirely from an iPad.
Best of luck! 😃