How do we disable driving focus permanently?

Done that. It does not work. That’s the first thing we try after reading the same question being asked on Apple support. I’ve read all over this support site and searched other websites. On Apple support your answer keeps coming up while ignoring the fact that it happens even when we haven’t set up or added (+) the focus. Even after adding it and setting it to manual, it still activates. After deleting it, it still activates like before when we first noticed something was wrong with Siri. That’s the point of me asking.

No. It’s a personal device. Not associated with or locked down with any admin/work software or anything unusual. I hoped the new 16.4.1 update would finally resolve this issue but it’s still there. I wondered if the Apple Watch could be causing it to activate since you cannot delete the driving focus from the watch at all. Only turn off “mirror iPhone”. The driving focus option isn’t available by default in the focus app. You can’t find it by starching settings until you set it up. What’s dangerous is that it activates without setting it up while driving and you have to add it to disable it. … and that doesn’t work. Deleting it doesn’t work unfortunately. Like I said I. The initial post, I found it very distracting when Siri couldn’t answer simple questions. I don’t really care that it happens to me. I now know that it’s an issue and I’m aware of what’s happening. When someone like me who’s a stickler about people texting and driving, playing with their phones while driving, etc…is pulling over at the gas station trying to figure out why my iPhone, Siri, wasn’t explicitly saying that the reason it couldn’t answer a question was because I was driving, but instead just said something like “I can’t do that on iPhone” when normally it can. I can’t imagine the scenarios of people fumbling while driving down the interstate. I needed to know the hours to my pharmacy and I’m having to unlock my phone (by looking at it) and manually search. It’s seems to me that it’s just badly implemented. I’m not the only person who sees it this way. I never use any focus setting. If I don’t need to use my phone I turn it off or silence it.

Content restrictions were off. I had to enable it to see and it says allow for driving focus. I give up. I’ll refer Apple support to this thread. Thanks.

Also, I drive with my Mac in a bag. Does it have driving focus also? If so, could it be causing it to activate. It’s not even turned on. If it is like the Apple watch which has a driving focus setting that I just discovered, (which btw, took forever to find as It’s in the general tab on the watch only and not the watch app on the phone), that you cannot delete, could it be somehow changing things? Thanks.

Sorry that you didn’t specify a specific service like outlook or MS exchange. I told you that I didn’t not have in the first reply. No connection with anyone or any email through work. I’m not arguing. I’m happy that you’re not having the problem. I have screen shots of all of these settings incase support can help.

It does. I just found it. The Mac has it too. Just like the watch. I fortunately can delete this from the Mac. The watch still has a driving focus.