I'm just guessing here, but here's what might have happened. Your watch may have gone into power reserve mode. When this happens, you can do nothing with it at all except visually display the time on the screen. Here's what I would try to do. Connect your watch to power for about 20 minutes just to make sure the unit gets enough power to function for a few minutes. After charging for about 20 minutes, disconnect the power and simultaneously hold down the crown and friends buttons for a full ten seconds, just like you would do with your iPhone if you were resetting it because of acting up. After releasing the buttons wait about 3 minutes for the watch to power cycle, it starts much slower than iPhone so try to be somewhat patient, if after 5 minutes nothing happens, go into the watch app on your phone and go to general, accessibility, voiceOver and make sure it is on. Then make sure your sound volume is up all the way and make sure VO volume is maxed as well. Once this is done, tap your watch and see if it will speak. If not, you will need apple support, if so, make sure you never let it go to power reserve mode again. The only way out of power reserve mode to get VO speaking again is the hard reboot I described above. Also, in the watch app under accessibility is the accessibility shortcut, just like on iPhone. You can set it to toggle VO so that triple-clicking the crown will turn VO on/off. Hope that helps, let me know if it does.
Phillip Tracy Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 13, 2016, at 12:46 PM, Chris Chaffin <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would take it to an Apple Store if available, and if not, I would call > Apple Accessibility. > Since you do not have voice over, you might want to have sighted assistance > there with you before calling Apple Accessibility. > > Good luck! > > Chris > > >> On Mar 13, 2016, at 6:49 AM, alex stone <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Can't do any of these things as all the watch will do is display the time >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On 15 Jan 2016, at 01:08, Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D. >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Is there any chance Airplane Mode has been turned on on the watch? >>> >>> Also, if you can get to your apps on the watch, try going to Settings, then >>> General, then swipe all the way right. You'll find a Reset button there. It >>> might be worth a try. >>> >>> Keith >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >>> Of alex stone >>> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 6:15 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Apple Watch won't speak >>> >>> Thanks Anna, tried both of those things, with no luck, also tried holding >>> in the crown to see if Siri would work but it won't. The problem is that >>> the watch is no longer paired with the phone, so I don't have a lot of >>> options. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On 14 Jan 2016, at 15:17, Woody Anna Dresner <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Wait a good 2 or 3 minutes before trying to do anything with the watch >>>> once you start the boot-up process. It takes a long time to restart. >>>> >>>> If Voiceover still isn't running, try the triple-click of the digital >>>> crown option if you've set that up, or ask Siri to turn on VoiceOver. Or >>>> use the Watch app on your phone to turn it on in General/Accessibility. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Anna >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Jan 14, 2016, at 7:50 AM, alex stone <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Already tried that, it comes back still not speaking >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>>> On 13 Jan 2016, at 13:20, Chris Chaffin <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Sounds like it is in power reserve mode where it only shows the time. >>>>>> Voice over will not work in power reserve mode. >>>>>> To restart the watch, hold down the friends button for four seconds. >>>>>> This will make your watch start up like normal with voice over. >>>>>> I got this information from a podcast on AppleVis. >>>>>> >>>>>> Hope this helps, >>>>>> >>>>>> Chris >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Jan 13, 2016, at 1:53 AM, alex stone <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> My watch stopped talking, so I did all the troubleshooting steps I >>>>>>> could think of. Nothing worked so I decided to unpaid it. It seemed to >>>>>>> unpaid, but now won't pair. My sighted wife tells me that it only shows >>>>>>> the time but won't do anything else. 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