Can I turn off my iPhone's voicemail transcriptions in iOS 17?

Is there any way we can turn off the captions/transcription on voice messages in messages? no offence but i genuinely hate it but i cant find a way to disable it anywhere and when i search it up, it comes up with voiceMAIL transcriptions which i really don’t want 😭😭. does anyone know an alternative or a way to turn it off?


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iPhone 11, iOS 17

Posted on Sep 19, 2023 2:28 AM

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Nov 18, 2023 7:57 PM in response to diamonds_

ok I FIGURED THIS OUT TODAY and i'm sooo happy. if i'm understanding the issue right, i was super frustrated as well that i could no longer hold the little microphone button down to record voice messages without it turning to text. the way i restored the feature was by turning off dictation. if you search "dictation" in settings it takes you to keyboards and you can turn off "enable dictation," which makes the microphone on imessage go back to recording voice messages. i would still like to know how turn off voice message transcriptions though lol

Nov 28, 2023 7:31 AM in response to Dralend

Dralend wrote:

We should be able to disable this feature. Transcripts are not fully accurate, e.g. I say 'It's Dan' to my friend who's recently lost her father. The transcript says 'Hello, it's dad'. This is so stupid Apple, and causes hurt. It needs to be fixed urgently.

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