Siri just... stops working.

[eicca]

Brand new M1 MacBook Air, fresh setup on 12.4, recently updated to 12.5. Siri will just stop working after a day or so following a fresh boot. Doesn't come up with the keyboard shortcut, Launchpad icon or menu bar click. Have to reboot to get it working again.

Any fixes?

 

[BanditoB]

Your best bet is probably to go ahead and reinstall MacOS 12.5. This will usually clear up random issues like this one.

 

[adamlbiscuit]

This happens to me too on both my M1 Mac mini & M1 MacBook Air.

It's not a fix per se, but when Siri stops working, go to Activity Monitor and find the 'Siri' process.

Once you've found it, click the cross in the Activity Monitors toolbar and quit it (just the process highlighted above, not anything else Siri related).

Click 'quit' and the process will pop back up immediately after you press it.

Siri should now be back to normal... until next time. At least you won't have to reboot, though!

Hopefully it gets fixed for us soon!

 

[Gregg2]

Siri is on strike, something about equal pay and Alexa, I think.

 

[mxrider88]

Happening since the first release of Monterey for me. Reported 6 times. I accepted it as "the new Apple".