How to have Siri automatically read incoming text messages out loud to you in iOS 13

Siri inwards iOS thirteen tin optionally read texts out loud to y'all through your AirPods or Powerbeats Pro, every bit before long every bit they arrive, allowing for truthful hands-free messaging when your hands are busy.

They’re calling it “Announce Messages with Siri”.

About Announce Messages with Siri

In iOS 13, Apple’s personal assistant tin verbalize incoming notifications from messaging apps into your AirPods or Powerbeats Pro when y'all can’t accomplish for your phone. The characteristic doesn’t run on the master copy AirPods, but if y'all accept a second‑generation model you’ll move fine.

It also supports Powerbeats Pro, leading us to suspect that Announce Messages with Siri requires Apple’s H1 headphone chip that powers AirPods 2 together with Powerbeats Pro.

Being able to rapidly listen, together with respond, to an incoming message is no uncertainty an awesome enhancement. No to a greater extent than are y'all required to double-tap an AirPod inwards fellowship to summon Siri together with enquire her to read out loud the text y'all exactly received.

This cool capability was officially announced amongst other AirPods enhancements yesteryear Craig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, during the iOS thirteen segment of the June iii keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2019 which was held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center inwards San Jose, California.

Follow along with iDownloadBlog’s step-by-step tutorial to acquire how to gear upwardly Siri inwards iOS thirteen to accept her automatically read incoming messages out loud.

Have Siri automatically read messages aloud

Follow the steps below to accept Siri automatically read your latest incoming message out loud.

1) Open Settings on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touching on with iOS thirteen or later.

2) Tap Notifications.

3) Tap Announce Messages with Siri.

4) Slide the switch adjacent to Announce Messages with Siri to the ON position.

5) To avoid Siri reading your transcribed respond dorsum to y'all earlier sending it, toggle off the choice Send Replies Without Confirmation.

Screenshot via Todd Haselton / CNBC

If you’re non a native English linguistic communication speaker or Siri’s speech-to-text doesn’t print you, y'all should acquire out this setting off inwards fellowship to brand for sure Siri gets everything right.

6) Now tap Messages underneath the heading Announce Messages From.

7) Choose whom y'all desire to have messages from this way:

• Everyone: Siri volition read out loud texts from everyone.


• Recents: Siri volition only read out loud texts from people who latterly messaged you.


• All Contacts: Siri volition read aloud incoming texts no affair the sender.


• Favorites: Only messages from your favorite contacts volition move read out loud to you.

According to Apple, if notifications accept been turned off for a particualr messaging app, enabling Announce Messages with Siri volition also plough dorsum on notifications.

Aside from Messages, third-party messaging app installed on your iPhone or iPad volition move listed inwards Settings → Notifications → Announce Messages with Siri, allowing y'all to separately care this characteristic for every messaging app, which is pretty great.

How Announce Messages with Siri works

With the characteristic turned on, your trusted personal assistant volition read an incoming message aloud, move it an iMessage or a text originating from a third-party messaging app, every bit long every bit it integrates with the personal assistant using Apple’s SiriKit APIs.

Siri announces the sender earlier reading aloud the contents of their message into your ear. Right after reading the message out loud, Siri volition together with then hear for a respond on your part. Simply nation them your message, no require to role the “Hey Siri” wake-up discussion earlier responding.

As an example, y'all may move running on a treadmill. Perhaps you’re playing with your kids or your hands are only busy. Regardless, directly y'all can quickly together with easily engage with a conversation fifty-fifty if you’re doing something else at the time.

Seriously, it exactly works.

Other AirPods improvements inwards iOS 13

If y'all ain Apple’s wireless earbuds, you’ll desire to install iOS thirteen due to approximately other cool novel feature, called Shared Listening, which lets a friend listen to the same song or sentinel the same pic or hear the same audiobook that you’re enjoying through your ain AirPods.

This is possible because all iPhones from iPhone X onward, every bit good every bit the second-generation AirPods and Apple’s truly wireless Powerbeats Pro sporty earbuds, include the latest Bluetooth 5.0 wireless protocol that—aside from to a greater extent than reliable functioning together with increased range—packs inwards support for pairing with 2 good accessories at a time.

Before iOS 13, showing someone what you’re listening to required handing over i of your AirPods, which meant only using i together with enjoying one-half the experience.

By the way, Siri tin also denote who’s calling (this is really an one-time characteristic from prior iOS editions). If y'all upgrade to iOS 13, your iPhone volition move able to automatically quiet unknown callers to cutting downwards on the amount of spammy robocalls together with other unwanted calls.

Siri enhancements inwards iOS 13

iOS thirteen packs inwards the next major Siri improvements.

• Improved vocalisation with neural TTS: Siri sounds to a greater extent than natural than ever, especially field speaking longer phrases, with a vocalisation that is generated only yesteryear software.


• Siri intelligence: Siri offers personalized suggestions inwards Apple Podcasts, Safari, together with Maps. Siri tin fifty-fifty expose reminders inwards messages together with events inwards third-party apps.


• SiriKit for Audio: Siri tin directly play music, podcasts, audiobooks together with radio with third-party apps.


• Radio: Ask Siri to melody inwards to your favorite radio station.


• Indian English linguistic communication voice: Siri has a novel Indian English linguistic communication voice.

These enhancements are available across iPhone, iPad together with iPod touching on devices with iOS 13.

iOS thirteen compatibility

iOS thirteen is compatible with the next Apple smartphone models:

• iPhone XS


• iPhone XS Max


• iPhone XR


• iPhone X


• iPhone 8


• iPhone 8 Plus


• iPhone 7


• iPhone seven Plus


• iPhone 6s


• iPhone 6s Plus


• iPhone SE


• iPod touching on (7th generation)

For to a greater extent than information, read Apple’s press release or see apple.com/ios/ios-13-preview.

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iPadOS compatibility

iPadOS is compatible with these iPads:

• 12.9-inch iPad Pro


• 11-inch iPad Pro


• 10.5-inch iPad Pro


• 9.7-inch iPad Pro


• iPad (6th generation)


• iPad (5th generation)


• iPad mini (5th generation)


• iPad mini 4


• iPad Air (3rd generation)


• iPad Air 2

Watch our video overview of the novel iPad-only updates embedded below.

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For more, read Apple’s press release or see apple.com/ipados/ipados-preview.

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