My iPhone has lately been developing more and more little disease symptoms that seem like software, not hardware. I have an iPhone 16 so I'm reasonably up to date hardware wise. The most annoying one, which started after I turned on Apple Intelligence but stayed after I turned it off is that voice dictation now pauses for over a minute between when I hit the microphone icon and when I get the beep to start speaking. As a partially blind guy, this is super crippling. Apple Support seems cluelsss :slight_smile: Where do you folks go to fix tiny annoying problems like this?
I rarely have much success with Apple issues like that, but these days my first stop would be Perplexity. And then after trying all the suggestions if they don’t work I just give up!
@James Thurley Thank you I haven't yet tried Perplexity and this might be a good test case :slight_smile: Actually, using the tool I have on hand, I'm already paying for Claude, so I asked it and ... BINGO! The correct answer was:
Last updated: Jun 28 2025 at 11:36 UTC