Turn off iOS 15 Safari Address Bar dictation?

Try this

Go to Safari settings>advanced>experimental features and turn off Speech Recognition API

close and reopen Safari.

go to keyboard and enable dictation then disable it solved my problem

in ios15...SETTINGS:SAFARI:MICROPHONE:DENY

however when i open safari the mic icon is NOT displayed but as soon as i touch the search bar (in public OR private mode) the mic icon returns. how do I COMPLETELY tell safari to not display the mic icon in the search bar?

You can’t. It’s just there for no reason. It’s stupid and I can’t believe that people on here say that they have fixed the issue. I’ve tried everything and for a short while it will go away but comes back after a reboot or closing the safari app. Nobody on here has actually figured it out.

Did you restart Safari afterwards? Turning off the experimental setting then restarting safari (swiping up to close then reopening) worked for me. What an annoying “feature” - thanks, Steve!

This worked ..,

Disabled Speech Recognition API in Safari

Restart Safari

Disable dictation

Restart Safari

(Icon gone)

Re-enable dictation

(Stlll gone)

i’ve accidentally tapped this icon many times. it is a complete nuissance.

it seems to provoke another bug where typing into the search box no longer provides suggestions. Have to do a full reboot (home and power button simultaneously until apple logo reappears).

i’ve also seen the search box break such that the keyboard stops appearing when tapping on the search box.

(iPadOS 15.2.1)

guess it’s time to post the bugs to https://www.apple.com/feedback/

Works, but then dictation is fully disabled, also in the places where you do want to use it.

I think this is an actual bug in Safari, at least for me; the mic symbol is misplaced and too far left. It covers part of the address input field, and I cannot get it to move into its normal position, really annoying.

Edit: Tried with my GFs phone (13 Pro), same behavior. So probably not a bug but a feature -.-

I most certainly restated safari. I tried to power off and restart even did a soft reset… this did absolutely nothing. If it worked for you. You mean at have done something different. Because mine still is there.

I think it’s one of those bugs where you toggle something off then on and then restart, it might be the API or the dictation settings. Either way I no longer have the mic in the address bar, but I have left dictation off in the keyboard setting.

This got me really stoked. However, it came back after doing all this and restarting safari one final time.

It seems like Apple’s UI experience has been degrading over the last few months. I have a handful of unrelated gripes.

Same!

thanks! that did it.

rich

Well the Definitely dropped the ball on this. Why do we need 2 dictate options on safari. This is the stupidest idea I’ve ever witnessed. Hope the gets fixed like yesterday when I installed ios15.1