Comments on: Here’s what to do if Dictation is not working on your iPhone or iPad

By: Don

Don — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 03:44:58 +0000

I could not get dictation to work on my iPad Pro. I checked the latest OS was on my iPad. I did the usual settings nothing worked. I started to think maybe that all axiom was true (you just can’t fix stupid} and then I found “ appletoolbox.com”

My problem is solved by reading your solutions to my problem thank you and million times I am very grateful to you thank you thank you!!!

By: Wanda

Wanda — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 15:53:33 +0000

Extremely helpful, easy to understand…which is not usual. Thank you for straightforward fixes!!!

By: Malori

Malori — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 17:18:43 +0000

None of these options fixed my talk to text.

By: J. Dixon

J. Dixon — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 22:03:09 +0000

I was Able to fix my dictation by turning off enable then turning my phone off then turning my phone on and going into keyboard and resetting for the phone to be enabled. Worked beautifully.

By: Nic

Nic — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 10:40:58 +0000

It worked. Thank you so much!

By: Susan Stokes

Susan Stokes — Sun, 29 May 2022 08:55:25 +0000

I was able to fix my dictation issue for Spanish dictation by going to settings Keyboard languages Verifying that the Spanish language dictation was disabled!. Somehow during one of the several last updates it got disabled. Not by me, I never go in there generally. Thank you so much! You just made my job a lot easier… I work as an interpreter and I frequently use Spanish and English dictation for work.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 19 May 2022 10:19:21 +0000

Hi there. I have tried almost all of the above solutions
My issue is; voice to text dictation works until I insert an emoji. And then I cannot voice to text, I actually have to physically write the text message. Please help as I am technologically behind the times when would say.
Kindest regards
Lee

By: Thankful

Thankful — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 15:57:54 +0000

#2 worked for me. thank you.

By: Kelly Egli

Kelly Egli — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 13:54:15 +0000

Thank you! Turning screen time back on solved my issue. I’ve not had dictation for a year after my phone screen was replaced. First solution to my problem I could find.

By: Daniel Wells

Daniel Wells — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:21:07 +0000

Often this happens when the setting is changed in the Screen Time app. If inadvertently one turns off the Siri and dictation feature or somehow restricts it, the microphone icon disappears from the keyboard and it is impossible to dictate. I called support about this and no one could figure it out. Finally I had to reset the entire phone and then it was back. When it happened again I finally figured out that I had been adjusting the Screen Time abilities for my teenage son and that was what had happened last time.

By: Gen

Gen — Wed, 27 May 2020 00:58:51 +0000

In reply to LAWRENCE SILVERBERG. Thanks for posting, this helped my problem too!

By: LAWRENCE SILVERBERG

LAWRENCE SILVERBERG — Fri, 01 May 2020 06:05:26 +0000

My speech to text dictation was horrible. It got very few words correct. It started behaving like this very abruptly. One day it worked normally, the next day it did not work.

I tested each microphone and found out that the microphone did not work when I was recording front facing camera videos. It sounded very muffled.

I tried changing multiple things under settings but nothing worked.

I took a sharp pocket knife and used the back of the blade to scrape the lint/dirt out of the rectangle at the top of the screen where one would listen to a phone call with the phone lifted up to the head.

After I did this, the front facing camera video had Good sound and the speech to text dictation worked!

By: Les

Les — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:21:53 +0000

When I was in my house something came up allow or don’t allow I can’t remember what it was and I pressed allow now when I hit Google to look anything up or Safari I can’t use Dictaphone I have to type it in

By: Peter Tiedemann

Peter Tiedemann — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 03:15:27 +0000

Since the last iOS upgrades dictation definitely took a turn to the worst.

This is not only that the last sentence keeps repeating, but in particular if you dictate in 2 languages, and although selecting the right language, it keeps mixing up words from either language, which results in non-sense sentences mixed out of 2 languages.

To me it seems is if Apple made the attempt with the latest iOS upgrades to recognize languages automatically and that does not seem to work.