Originally Posted by
Dave Bhullar It only reads your texts when you receive them. As of now I don't think its possible to make Cortana search something in the text messages if that's what you're trying to do. You can search text messages manually through the search bar in Cortana, just swipe right after you get the web results.
In my case she doesn't read them when I receive them either. She asks me if I want her to read them, I say yes and then she doesn't do anything which is very frustrating. This started to happen when I changed phones(from Lumia 1020 to MS 950). I checked all my settings and couldn't find an answer. She does however send any smses I tell her too so it does work in other areas. Any ideas?