Why isnt raise to speak working

As I mentioned in an earlier comment I see my question displayed but it does not provide an answer. Restarting the watch helped but it took multiple attempts to recognize I asked a question and then once it accepted the question it was a bit slow to provide the answer. Slow enough that I thought it was not going to work again. I got the same impression, but then I tried to go where my wifi reception is better. Furthermore you should try to make your question as soon as your arm is still being raised even if the watch hasn't reached the mouth's height, for me it works well now.

Or possibly there is some interference in the bluetooth range between your phone and watch? No, not a proximity sensor and I don't mean that you need to put it right up near your lips. Just closer than you would normally do if you were looking at the time. I think it does either detect the volume so speaking louder should work too , or by putting it closer to your mouth you may naturally make it more vertical as you suggested.

Sep 19, PM. No matter what I do, raising my wrist will not enable Siri, including an attempt at rebooting my watch running on OS5. Sep 20, AM. Sep 20, PM in response to mrhoni In response to mrhoni. Hey guys, I have tried multiple times and it is still not working for me as well. I have reset both my phone and the watch restarted it, made sure they are all on the same network and everything. Sep 20, PM. Sep 21, PM in response to mrhoni In response to mrhoni. I noticed that while I am sitting in my recliner that if I wake my watch, raise it to my mouth and ask a question I get no response because again my arm is not being brought up from the vertical position.

Sep 21, PM. Sep 22, AM in response to mrhoni In response to mrhoni. I was having the same problems and it does boil down to the orientation of your arm when you issue the command. Hope that helps! Sep 22, AM. I tried to your suggestions but was not able to get it consistently working. Works only if the watch is set to Wake On Wrist Raise. Otherwise, you have to tap the screen to wake up the watch, only then, once awake, it will respond to Siri. Kind of stupid. Name required.

Mail will not be published required. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. Enjoy this tip? Subscribe to our newsletter! Thank you! These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. The ability to just raise your wrist and speak to your Apple Watch without the words "Hey, Siri," is brilliant. What was initially a convenience is now increasingly useful, too, and yet it's extraordinarily unreliable.

Here's how to make it better — and why you need it to. We must call out the phrase "Hey, Siri ," twenty times a day and there is not a single thing we don't like about it — except those words.

The ability to have your iOS device send messages, tell you the news, answer calls, play music and countless more things, without even touching it is astounding. Having to prefix every single request with "Hey, Siri," is not. If you're a heavy user of Siri, those words become a chore and you end up saying them so often that they turn to meaningless syllables that you rush through.

Don't get us wrong, the idea of going back to pressing the Home button before you speak would be like returning to the Bronze Age. Just raise your wrist, speak to your Watch and Siri would go do what you ask without you ever needing to say, "Hey, Siri. If there's anything more exasperating than Siri offering to send a text to your ex instead of playing the "Texas Essentials" playlist on Apple Music , it's Raise to Speak doing nothing at all. Before we were driven to figure this problem out, we were getting Raise to Speak reacting perhaps one out of twenty times.

In regular use, we quickly got to the stage where we didn't bother and instead just always said, "Hey, Siri," regardless. You do have to have this feature switched on or you'll be fruitlessly shouting into your Watch forever. On the Watch, go to Settings , scroll to General and tap on Siri. If your Watch can do this, so if it's a Series 4 or later one, then you'll have a Raise to Speak option. The trick is to remember that the Watch is not listening out all the time. It will listen for "Hey, Siri," as soon as you turn your wrist, but that's not Raise to Speak.

Clearly, given the name, it's no surprise that you have to raise your arm in order to make this work. It's the specific motion and perhaps also positioning that makes the Watch start listening to what you're saying. However, what is surprising is just how much you have to raise your arm.

We find that it works most consistently when you raise it so high that the Watch is in front of your face. It seems to help most if the Watch face is close to perpendicular to the ground.

Raise it and tilt the Watch so that it is directly face-on to you, and then it works. You have to raise it and start speaking pretty much immediately, but as you do so, you will get the screen changing to show the words "What can I help you with? Compare that to how you can just turn your wrist enough to light the screen and then say "Hey, Siri. As much as we like the idea of never saying that trigger phrase again, and as much as we will never change our mind about wanting that some day, we haven't got it now.

Not effectively, not practically. Which is more than a pity, it's increasingly a hindrance. Even when watchOS 5 was officially released to the public in September , it was highly likely that you had many devices that could react to "Hey, Siri. It was remarkably easy to have a situation where you're in a place with an iPhone, an iPad and even a Mac that are all listening out for the words.

Then, of course, you could also have a HomePod or do, and the only difference with those is that they have better microphones. We have been two rooms away, talking to our Apple Watches, and the HomePod has reacted instead. Consequently, we might, for instance, successfully set an alarm on our Apple Watch but the HomePod in our office is set too. Then we got AirPods 2 and now the very devices in our ears are listening out for the trigger phrase.

As good as these devices are at checking with each other and trying to reason which one you meant to call out to, they get it wrong. All of that goes away when Raise to Speak works reliably.

Use that to ask Siri something on your Apple Watch and no other device you've got will ever wrongly respond — because none of them will even hear you.