iphone SE3 and siri

By soni, 4 January, 2026

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iOS and iPadOS

For some reason, siri is not working well with the Se 3. Sometimes it responds, and sometimes not when I say siri or hey siri. It will work when pressing the home button. I have reset siri responses. I am using the latest update. Any ideas why it's not working correctly?

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By Singer Girl on Sunday, January 4, 2026 - 05:59

I’m not exactly sure why it’s happening, but Siri is definitely slower to respond and iOS 26 and I’m using the same model phone even though mine is a secondary device. I don’t think that just makes a difference though. Even with pressing the home button to speak to Siri it’s a lot slow to respond. I thought that it was fixed with iOS 26.1 but then the problem reoccurred again with iOS 26.2. Hopefully this is something that Apple will be working out for our future update to resolve the issue. Have you tried rebooting the phone? Sometimes that won’t fix weird things like this. It hasn’t worked for me, but it may work for your situation.