jrryan

Q: How to permanently disable voice control

Does anyone for the love of God know how to permanently disable voice control??? Please dont refer to voice over/activation or any other topic besides voice control!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am about to go back to android.

iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1, home button diales by itself

Posted on Jul 2, 2012 5:45 PM

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  • by Pirchl,

    Pirchl Pirchl Aug 18, 2015 2:40 PM in response to lars.solvang
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    Aug 18, 2015 2:40 PM in response to lars.solvang

    I still have same problem. I do not want a passcode and I don not need voice control. My Iphone calls people out of my pocket. Mostly people I am taking about. This ends in strange situations!

  • by Walterr5,

    Walterr5 Walterr5 Feb 6, 2016 7:42 PM in response to Lxandria
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    Feb 6, 2016 7:42 PM in response to Lxandria

    BEst solution I found to this problem. Get a screen protector. Thicker the better. With that gap, will be enough to void pressure on the home button when your phone is in your pocket.

  • by DarylandDot,

    DarylandDot DarylandDot May 29, 2016 12:54 PM in response to raymiemusser
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    May 29, 2016 12:54 PM in response to raymiemusser

    Thanks for the post. This worked for me thanks

    Daryl

  • by betty1945,

    betty1945 betty1945 Jun 29, 2016 9:10 AM in response to raymiemusser
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    Jun 29, 2016 9:10 AM in response to raymiemusser

    NOTHING  H E L P S . . . . . . . !!!!!!!!!!   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!''!'!''''''''!!!!'nnnn n nnnnnn !!!!!!! Nothing !!!! B.       

  • by RDPH,

    RDPH RDPH Sep 16, 2016 12:54 PM in response to jrryan
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    Sep 16, 2016 12:54 PM in response to jrryan

    OK. Essentially same issue. iPhone 6s. iOS 10.0.1.

    Have Home Button set to "Rest Finger to Open". (I do not like the new way that the Home Button functions.)

    Have SIRI disabled.

    Have all voice assist type controls off.

     

    HOWEVER... If, in the lock screen, I press and hold the Home Button, I get a Voice Control screen.

    Why is that there?

    How to I turn off the Voice Control?

     

    I have neither the need, nor the desire to talk to, or be talked to from, my phone!!!!

     

    Thanks.

  • by freudsigmund,

    freudsigmund freudsigmund Sep 20, 2016 8:20 AM in response to RDPH
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    Sep 20, 2016 8:20 AM in response to RDPH

    This is by far the worst feature in the iphone and it actually got worse with the latest update. I have switched off virtually everything that is remotely connected to speech-control (even so far that in settings->general SIRI is not even mentioned any more. But strangely i didn't have this problem until the most recent update. Apple, please help: How do I kill voicecontrol permanently??? I do not ever want it to come up in my phone, not now not ever.

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Sep 20, 2016 8:33 AM in response to freudsigmund
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    Sep 20, 2016 8:33 AM in response to freudsigmund

    freudsigmund wrote:

     

    I have switched off virtually everything that is remotely connected to speech-control (even so far that in settings->general SIRI is not even mentioned any more.

    The reason you don't see anything about Siri under Settings>General anymore isn't because of anything you did. Its because it was moved in iOS 10. Siri now has it's own entry in Settings. You'll find it between Sounds and Touch ID & Passcode.

     

    If you disable Siri, Voice Control is automatically enabled. It's either one or the other. If you leave Siri enabled but disabled in the lock screen, you'll be less likely to invoke anything accidentally.

  • by freudsigmund,

    freudsigmund freudsigmund Sep 20, 2016 8:54 AM in response to Meg St._Clair
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    Sep 20, 2016 8:54 AM in response to Meg St._Clair

    In that case enabling Siri might the best option. But in my (dutch) iPhone 6 with 10.0.1 (14A403) Siri isn't where you say she is. How can I then enable Siri?

     

     

     

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  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Sep 20, 2016 8:56 AM in response to freudsigmund
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    Sep 20, 2016 8:56 AM in response to freudsigmund

    Did you turn Siri off in Settings>General>Restrictions?

  • by RDPH,

    RDPH RDPH Sep 20, 2016 11:07 AM in response to Meg St._Clair
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    Sep 20, 2016 11:07 AM in response to Meg St._Clair

    Meg_St. Clair, I will take your word for it that if you disable Siri, Voice Control is automatically enabled. However, in my opinion this is a poor design. The developers should have allowed the selection of Siri, Voice Control, or neither.

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Sep 20, 2016 11:18 AM in response to RDPH
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    Sep 20, 2016 11:18 AM in response to RDPH

    RDPH wrote:

     

    Meg_St. Clair, I will take your word for it that if you disable Siri, Voice Control is automatically enabled. However, in my opinion this is a poor design. The developers should have allowed the selection of Siri, Voice Control, or neither.

    Then you should tell them that:

     

    http://www.apple.com/feedback

  • by yeeyeeyee,

    yeeyeeyee yeeyeeyee Sep 27, 2016 10:12 PM in response to jrryan
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    Sep 27, 2016 10:12 PM in response to jrryan

    I just talked to the Apple Hong Kong technical support through their online platform... They told me that, (1) you cannot turn off because this is a build-in function since IOS7;  (2) probably the "voice control problem" is due to your hardware, so, please backup and take your iphone7 to Apple Store Genius Bar for maintainence; (3) I asked if it is possible to have an option in the future for users to turn off this function, the reply I got is that "there are not much customers encounter this problem" (that means they do not even bother to acknowledge my problem encountered is a "problem")... well, after all, the lesson I learnt is that I will NEVER ask for help from APPLE online platform again, and I think it's time to start looking for an alternative (Android phone)

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Sep 28, 2016 6:01 AM in response to yeeyeeyee
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    Sep 28, 2016 6:01 AM in response to yeeyeeyee

    yeeyeeyee wrote:

     

    I will NEVER ask for help from APPLE online platform again, and I think it's time to start looking for an alternative (Android phone)

    You should do what best meets your needs. No one here cares which phone you decide to use.

     

    Best of luck.

  • by himguyy,

    himguyy himguyy Oct 3, 2016 12:07 PM in response to Meg St._Clair
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    Oct 3, 2016 12:07 PM in response to Meg St._Clair

    Meg St Clair, like an overwhelming number of Apple cronies trolling this discussions forum since always, is a pompous æss who never understands (seemingly with purposeful intent) the concerns brought by users to the very forum where assistance should be found for their Apple devices. Instead, they find their most useful response to be things like, 'You should do what best meets your needs. No one here cares which phone you decide to use.' They basically accuse everyone in a very ableist and elitist fashion of being stupid and using their device incorrectly. Seriously, shut the **** up unless you have something that helps the user. This isn't the Eat-it-if-you-do-not-worship-Apple forum. What best meets their needs is an actual Apple-provided solution. In this case, the ability to leave voice control fully and always disabled.


     

    It is not unreasonable to want for the home button to do nothing except for illuminate the screen, to unlock a device, and to navigate a device while unlocked. I posit it is very much a concern of accessibility and basic usability. Not everyone using an Apple device uses it the exact same way as you, Meg.

     

    Personally, I cast a million votes for full home button option control that allows fully disabling voice control in the highest sense without affecting other home button, Siri, or accessibility settings.

     

    iOS 10.x seems to have shortened the time required to hold the home button before voice control is activated. It's too quick that half of my attempts at screen capture (home + lock buttons) instead enable voice control, then immediately lock the device, no capture recorded. It's only like this because Apple changed it to be like this. Again, not everyone uses their device just like Meg uses hers. If you can imagine it, some people prefer Apple devices yet live with health concerns that limit their ability to press buttons together within a half-second sequence.

     

    Alas, Apple was sure everything is just right. I tell you it is not, it can be better and inclusive of many more users with a couple of options alongside the existing options. I know that Apple likes revenue and more of it. Doesn't that happen by successfully reaching existing as well as new customers?

     

    Copied to http://www.apple.com/feedback/ . Save your breath, Meg.

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Oct 3, 2016 12:24 PM in response to himguyy
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    Oct 3, 2016 12:24 PM in response to himguyy

    himguyy wrote:

     

     

     

    It is not unreasonable to want for the home button to do nothing except for illuminate the screen, to unlock a device, and to navigate a device while unlocked. I posit it is very much a concern of accessibility and basic usability. Not everyone using an Apple device uses it the exact same way as you, Meg.

     

    I understand precisely what people want in this thread. I also understand that no one here can give it to them. I never suggested that what anyone wants is unreasonable. Personal preferences are just that: personal. I'm really not sure where all this hostility comes from. You might want to consider why one feature of a luxury device is causing you to be so rude and unpleasant to someone you don't even know. I understand it would make you feel more validated if everyone here agreed with you that this is somehow an awful thing. But, that's not likely to happen.

     

    What I am suggesting is that no one here can make the change people want. And, more important, if something like that makes you so unhappy, you should definitely get a different phone. No one should make themselves that agitated over a little bit of metal and glass.

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