How to Make Siri Announce Notifications on iPhone 13 [iOS 16]

Apple’s in-built Siri speech assistant has undergone incremental changes in iOS 16, which is now in development. These include enhanced offline support, the ability to end calls using Siri, and additional accessibility capabilities. This post will show you how to make Siri announce notifications on Apple iPhone.

However, Apple finally made it possible for Siri to broadcast alerts that came on your iPhone and iPad with the introduction of iOS 13 and iPadOS. The only restriction was that you may use AirPods and some Beats headphones that have Apple’s H1 processor with the function turned on. Without having to pick up your iPhone every time a new notification pops up on your smartphone, this is a terrific way to stay concentrated on the work at hand.

Meanwhile, Stage Manager and lock screen personalization are two brand-new, interesting capabilities that OS 16 and iPad OS 16 bring to iPhone and iPad customers. When it comes to providing accessibility features for owners of its many products, Apple is still setting the bar high. And that includes features like the capacity to instruct Siri to read out notifications on an iPhone. As you might anticipate, this is not something that is enabled by default; rather, in order to make everything function, you must toggle on two distinct settings choices.

How to Make Siri Announce Notifications on Apple iPhone 13 or Before (iOS 16)

One of these brand-new accessibility improvements is the ability to have Siri use your iPhone’s speaker to announce notifications and incoming calls.

This is a useful upgrade over iOS 15, where Siri’s announce notifications feature only functioned when you were using compatible AirPods or Beats headphones. It also now supports hearing aids that are Made for iPhone.

Follow the below steps to turn on the setting that allows Siri to announce notifications through the speaker On an Apple iPhone running the newest version of iOS 16:

1. Navigate to the Settings app on your iPhone.

Settings

2. Tap Accessibility.

Accessibility

3. Scroll down to the General section of the Accessibility options and choose the Siri option.

Siri

4. Go to the Spoken Responses section of the newly loaded page and turn the Announce Notifications on Speaker switch on.

Announce Notifications on Speaker

There are choices to Announce When Connected to Headphones and to allow Siri to send responses to alerts that support them without first reading back the message for you to confirm in this extra menu (Reply Without Confirmation).

Reply Without Confirmation

That’s it. This was the process to make or get Siri to announce notifications on your iPhone 13 or iPhone 12 running the newest iOS 16 version. Once you’ve turned on the ability for Speaker to announce notifications, a new Declare Alerts menu will open where you may individually choose which applications Siri should announce notifications from.

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