Hi Applevis members.
In watchOS 26 I have notice that my preferred voice on the watch which is Stephanie UK keeps reverting back too Daniel which is the default for British English. This issue occurs every time when I reboot my watch not present in watch OS 11.
So every time I am redownloading and redownloading when my watch runs out of battery.
Is there any way to stop this or when is exactly apple going to find a solution to this problem.
Apple is such a buggy company this days the hardware is absolutely amazing but their software is atrocious
By AppleFan01, 30 September, 2025
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watchOS and Apple Watch Apps
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OS 26.02
Did you update to iOS 26.01 and OS 26.02? A long time ago, I had same with issue but with Samantha. Let it alone for one day and it changed to the VO I selected.
Unfortunately, this isn’t just happening with watches it’s happe
People are having issues like this with their iPhones as well. There’s voices that literally just aren’t downloading or the actors that they’re downloading and then not activating. I’m having this issue with my iPhone 15 or Karen premium will act as though she’s downloaded but then she won’t activate. We’ll hopefully get fixed with the software update. Apple is As well hopefully get fixed with the software update. Apple is aware of the issues with the voices. It’s probably something that you’ll need to report to them about your watch too if you haven’t done it already. There’s been multiple reports of Voice just not working. But yeah something definitely broke with the 26 update for voices. Stephanie is a great voice. I’m sorry you’re having this issue. Hopefully Apple will fix this soon.