siri: Siri seems to have lost this important accessibility feature after the iOS15 update – Times of India

iOS 15 has brought a lot of new features, updates and changes for iPhone users and that includes changes to how Siri processes voice commands. With iOS15, Apple enabled on-device voice processing using the Neural engine instead of sending them to Apple servers.
In that pursuit, it appears that something has gone wrong and Siri has lost one major feature — the ability to help vision deprived or blind people with accessibility features.
The accessibility feature on iPhone was designed to help people with hearing and vision disabilities to an iPhone. From iPhone’s accessibility menu, users can enable features like Sound recognition, hearing aid compatibility and more.
Siri too was a part of the entire accessibility feature and used to help such people by reading their voicemails, messages, sending location details and more. But, it seems that after the iOS 15 update, Siri is no longer in the ‘mood’ to do so.
MacRumors is reporting that Siri no longer responds to commands like send an email or read voicemails, check my call history, who called me, check recent call history and more.
Several iPhone users have started posting complaints about this issue on AppleVis, an online forum of blind iPhone users. A user named Brian Negus has posted that his iPhone SE running iOS 15 no longer responds to such queries and answers ‘sorry, I can’t help you with that’.
Negus also revealed that Apple Support is aware of the issue and it will be fixed via a future software update.
It is quite possible that Apple has mistakenly broken something with Siri while giving it new features and capabilities especially considering Siri can now process all voice commands on-device and not via the Apple server.