Why isn’t Siri updating my Sky News app?

Hi there 👋

Thanks for reaching out — I can see how frustrating it is when something that usually works smoothly suddenly stops updating.

If Siri isn’t playing the latest Sky News audio, but the app itself is showing current news content, this is likely a back-end content sync issue between Sky’s server and Apple’s Siri integration, rather than a problem with your iPhone or Siri settings directly. Deleting and reinstalling the app (which you’ve already done — good thinking!) helps rule out local issues, but Siri’s spoken news relies on live feeds provided by the app developer through Apple News or MediaIntents frameworks. If that feed hasn’t updated in a week, it may not be something you can fix from your end.

Here’s what you can try in the meantime:

• Go to Settings > Siri & Search > Sky News and toggle off everything, wait a few seconds, then toggle them all back on. This can help refresh Siri’s app permissions.
• Restart your iPhone after doing that.
• If possible, try the same voice command with a different Siri voice or language (e.g. temporarily switch to English (UK) if you’re on English (US), or vice versa). This sometimes triggers a different voice service route.

But most likely, this needs attention from Sky’s content delivery team — especially if the spoken briefings haven’t refreshed at the source. I’d recommend sending a quick message to Sky Support to report the outdated Siri news audio.

Hope that helps shed some light! Let me know if anything changes on your end.