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iPhone 18 Pro not playing tones for Siri and inductive charging

Siri is not playing a tone when I push the side button to ask a question or when I tap the microphone button to compose a text message.

I've seen some other posts suggesting that Apple made a design change to remove the tone. It’s curious that my wife and I are both using iPhone 18 Pro and both are on the latest iOS and hers makes the tone, but mine does not.

Is there a setting somewhere that I’m missing?

I have performed a hard reboot, and that did not help.

Incidentally, and intermittently, when I put my iPhone on the inductive charger I don’t get the usual "ka-clunk" sound when it displays the green charging ring and starts charging. A reboot usually fixed this.

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Original Title: Some tones not playing

Posted on Oct 10, 2026 7:50 AM

2 replies

lobsterghost1

Level 10 (233,174 points)

Oct 10, 2026 8:05 AM in response to msstatedawg

See if this helps you --> Change Siri settings on iPhone - Apple Support

Lawrence Finch

Level 10 (244,490 points)

Oct 10, 2026 8:12 AM in response to msstatedawg

The Siri tone was eliminated several versions ago, because you no longer need to wait for Siri to “wake up” before continuing with your request. Instead of: “Hey Siri [tone] What’s the weather?”, just say: “hey Siri what’s the weather?"

For the other sounds, make sure you haven’t enabled the Mute function of the multifunction button above the volume buttons. If you press and release it the current status of the Mute function will be displayed at the top of the screen. To toggle the Mute function hold that same button.

Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256373718