Siri keeps listening after she answers my question on my iPhone

Yes PLEASE help me find a way to turn this off. It used to be much better because if I needed to ask another question, after Siri already showed the first results, I could simply touch the orb and it would begin listening again, but now it listens no matter what. This means that background noice causes Siri to answer a new, random, unwanted question. Very annoying.

This is the problem! Do you not understand what these other people are saying? They don’t want SIRI to “Pause” and then keep listening. As the one person said you used to have to touch the “Orb” to get SIRI to listen to another question. As it is now, when it brings up 3 choices I tend to read the first line and where it came from at the bottom out loud. By the time I get to the second or third one SIRI hears me and goes to someplace that has nothing to do with the answer I was looking for in the first place. I have spoken and written to “Support”. They have no answer for this. Please put it back the way it was! This did not make it better or easier to use. It made it much WORSE!! FIX IT, PLEASE!!!

Hi!

I'm also finding this update to be a huge inconvenience unfortunately. So glad i've come across others having the same issue. Personally when i'm asking Siri something, i'm typically not with my phone; i'm asking it to set timers for dinner or some other action where it becomes a problem if i have to go and deliberately press the side button or tap the screen. Additionally, now having to say "that's all" (or similar) to make it stop listening in a hands-off manner, adds an unnecessary step to what is supposed to be an easier way to do things...

Really hope this update gets reversed, or we get an option to stop Siri from continuing to listen after we've asked it something!

Thanks!

i am tired of SERI listening to me for 10-15 seconds after asking a question. in started a couple updates ago.

Ending the interaction also ends what I’m reviewing. Example: I ask for weather and before i can review it, it goes away, so I have to ask Siri again. Seems to be poor quality control for user end value. Please update app and fix this issue that is a customer dissatisfier.

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I'm paralyzed and literally can't touch the phone with my fingers. This recent update has completely screwed with the way I use my phone. Siri won't stop listening to me and voice control is extremely unreliable now. Anytime I make a phone call with Siri now, the voice control won't work during the phone call, So I can't use the keypad to get through automated answering systems. When will they fix this? I just want Siri to stop listening to me after I get one command and not screw with voice control.

Apple should not make changes like this without a link in settings for Siri that takes you to an explanation page and how to shut off the new “improvements”.

You need to give a feature to get Siri to stop listening I pushed the button I asked for NBA score and it stays there, and if I read the scores to myself, it answers unnecessarily. Please please please remove this feature. I don’t want Siri to listen to what I’m saying after I said it once it’s very annoying. I’m starting to hate my phone.

It's not a bug? Apple adds the worst feature they could possibly come up with with no way to disable it. To me, it's the same as a bug. But, yes, Apple did this intentionally so it's technically not a bug. So, if I ask Siri for something, like a business name, it finds it and then if there is the slightest background noise, I lose what I searched for because it thinks I'm still talking. Or, my girlfriend might say something while I'm trying to read the result and POOF, gone. They made Siri unusable for all but quiet environments.

You act like this is a bug; it's not.

It's the way Siri works now and it's the way Apple has decided that Siri will work from now on.

Siri does listen past the first command, but only for a few seconds so not being able to select a keypad entry isn't due to this feature.

You can disagree with Apple, of course, but this isn't the place to make your views known as Apple is not here, and does not read these comments.

Leave your comments at the link below, as Apple does read them there:

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What if your phone is across the room and you can't hit the side button and if you tell Siri to stop and then give another command to the competition Aleka and then Siri takes over and thinks you're talking to it. That's one of many scenarios where this is a bad feature.

If I say, stop listening, it removed the results from the front of the phone that I wanted so stop listening is not working if it’s gonna remove the results right after you say, stop listening

Agreed! This is a huge irritation for me. In the seconds after my initial request is answered, whatever sound Siri hears it will try to match to a contact, and make a call. So if, in response to Siri’s answer, I murmur under my breath “Hmm, that’s interesting”, Siri will respond “Ok, calling [some random contact]”. Its resulted in some embarrassing apologies from me to whoever she called. Naturally, she always calls someone who I absolutely do NOT want to speak with.

Siri often waits after answering a question to see if you have any follow-up queries or need further assistance. It's designed to be attentive and ready for your next command or question. This brief pause allows you time to process the initial response and decide if you need to ask something else or perform another action. Siri's pause is more about being available and responsive rather than waiting for a specific reason.

To conclude your conversation with Siri, all you need to do is gently press the side button. This action effectively ends your interaction with Siri, allowing you to seamlessly return to your other tasks or activities without any further engagement.

Star of Bethlehem wrote:

It's not a bug? Apple adds the worst feature they could possibly come up with with no way to disable it.

I find it one of the best features Apple added to iOS 17, so just because it bothers you doesn't mean it's a "bad" feature or an issue for everyone.

If you want to register your complaint, you may do so here:

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