It’s not just VO, but Siri as wel. I noticed a major change in the same voice when I upgraded from my 13 to my 16 Pro.
> On Mar 11, 2025, at 11:14, Gabe Griffith <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have the watch 8 and definitely agree that ever since watch OS 11 VO has > pretty much sucked. Like Herbie, my voice gets a bit staticky but my biggest > issue is the volume. Even in a quiet room with the volume up to 100% I can > hardly hear it. This fluxuates a bit but is never very good. > > My question for Apple that no one has ever been able to answer satisfactorily > is why VO changes so much from one version to the next. This happens on all > my mobile devices but I think it's the worst on the watch, probably because > of the tiny speaker. > > Gabe > > > Gabe Griffith > (925)768-8195 > [email protected] > > >> On Mar 11, 2025, at 5:01 AM, Herbie Allen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yes, I had this problem going back to last December. Getting the watch 10 >> helped the most, but while I had the watch, just leaving it on the charger >> for a while seemed to resolve the issue. In my case, Vo would just start >> getting staticky. >> >>> On Mar 11, 2025, at 00:57, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> I am having a problem with my apple watch 8 since the last update. Twice >>> now voice over has completely crashed and I did the following to try and >>> get voice over working which were I restarted my watch, did a soft reboot >>> by pressing the crown and the next key, turned voice over on and off using >>> Siri, turning voice over on and off on the watch and on the watch app. I >>> checked all of the settings and nothing has changed. I had to reset my >>> watch to get voice over working. I also went to an apple store and spoke to >>> a technician and she checked everything and couldn’t work out what the >>> problem was. 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