Announce notifications with Siri on AirPods or Beats

When you're wearing your AirPods or compatible Beats headphones, Siri can announce incoming notifications from apps such equally Letters and Reminders, and from supported third-party apps. Then you can reply instantly, hands-costless.

What you need

Yous can take Siri announce your incoming notifications with these headphones:

  • AirPods Max
  • AirPods (second generation) or subsequently
  • AirPods Pro
  • Beats Fit Pro
  • Powerbeats
  • Powerbeats Pro
  • Beats Solo Pro

Your compatible headphones need to be paired with one of these devices:

  • iPhone with iOS xv
  • iPad with iPadOS 15

Turn on Announce Notifications

  1. Open the Settings app.
  2. Tap Notifications.
  3. Tap Announce Notifications.
    Announce Messages with Siri
  4. Plough on Announce Notifications.

Use Announce Notifications

With this feature turned on, Siri announces incoming notifications from apps such every bit Messages and Reminders, and from supported 3rd-party apps. Siri reads your incoming notifications out loud when your headphones are connected to your iPhone or iPad, you're wearing them, and your device is locked.

If the app that y'all're using classifies a notification as time sensitive or as a direct message, Siri plays a tone, then announces the notification automatically. You tin also choose which notifications Siri reads:

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, go to Settings > Notifications > Announce Notifications.
  2. Tap Messages.
  3. Select either Time Sensitive and Direct Messages or All Notifications.

If you customize Control Center on your iPhone or iPad to include Announce Notifications, you can apply Command Center to plow the feature on or off speedily.

If y'all're receiving multiple notifications at in one case, you can stop Siri from announcing them all by taking out i of your earbuds or removing your headphones.

Answer to notifications

For apps in which yous tin ship a reply, such equally Messages, you can respond to the notifications that Siri announces on uniform headphones or in a vehicle that supports CarPlay:

  1. Wait for Siri to read the notification. Siri so listens for your reply.
  2. Tell Siri that you'd similar to respond, then speak your message. Say something like "Reply 'I'm on my style'" or "Tell her 'I'll encounter you there.'" When you stop talking, Siri reads your reply back to you lot and asks if you desire to send information technology.

If you don't hear Siri announcements

If you don't hear Siri announce your notifications, try these steps:

  1. Make sure that you're using a compatible device.
  2. Brand sure that your AirPods or your compatible Beats headphones are paired to your device in Settings > Bluetooth.
  3. Become to Settings > Notifications > Announce Notifications and make sure that Denote Notifications is turned on.
  4. Make certain that your iPhone or iPad is locked and its screen is nighttime. Siri doesn't announce letters if you're using your device.

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