I am on an iPhone 5S and I am having Siri launching issues as well but they are different than yours. In short, when I go to launch Siri via the home button I get the Familiar Siri is listening sound followed by an abrupt bong, then nothing...Siri is not listening or working. The only fix I have been able to reproduce is to go back to my home screen. So far, it seems to happen if I try to initiate Siri within any app like Safari or messages. It seems as though Siri will only work if I am at my home screen. :(
I also was having problems with dictation. I'm not sure yet if the problem is fixed yet because I haven't played with it much yet. I could not get a two-finger double tap to initiate dictation. Then just yesterday, I tried a single finger double tap on the actual dictation button. Then a message popped up asking me if I wanted to enable dictation and I chose to do so. It seems to be working now. I've only used it once since then. Go into settings and make sure dictation is enabled because now, we have the option to enable Siri and dictation separately . Christina > On Oct 24, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Brian Fischler <brianfisch...@me.com> wrote: > > Hey all, > > Not sure if this is an IOS 8.1 issue or device specific issue. I am noticing > a lot of times every day when I press the home button to launch Siri nothing > happens. I can touch the screen and Siri is running but no matter how many > times I tap the listen now button on the screen nothing. Additionally I am > having issues often enough when I do a two finger double tap in a text field > to begin dictating something. I can also hit the dictate now button and > nothing either. I am using an iPhone 5s and this would happen periodically in > IOS 7 but not as bad as this. The only thing that gets Siri working again is > a reset of the phone and it happens at least 65% of the time when I try to > use Siri or dictate. Any thoughts? > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
