I ask Siri a question, she answers like normal, but then she keeps listening and the results I’m trying to read go away because she’s moved on to answering some inane thing that was not directed to her. Why is this happening? How can I turn it off? It is so inconvenient and unwelcome.
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iPhone 14 Pro
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.
I do realize this is not the place to ask Apple or tell Apple how to run their business, however, the hey Siri or the Siri stop or the I’m finished or whatever it is that you think you can say to Siri to stop listening only makes Siri go away. However, when Siri goes away, so does the question that you ask. If I ask Siri where the museum is in Antes, it will bring up a suggestion and then if I say stop or go away or anything else. so does the information. So all you people that think that it’s very simple to say Siri stop it doesn’t work. Let’s have all the people that don’t like this send feedback to Apple at www.apple.com/feedback and ask for a button to be able to turn this off. Thank you!
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:
No, you haven't all been complaining about it, and many find it to be spectacularly useful.
Assuming you've told Apple of your feelings here:
They will read the comments and if enough people truly hate it, they may change it in a future major release of iOS, like iOS 18.
Personally I find it to be useful as I chain commands to Siri all the time and it's wonderful to not have to prefix each one with "Siri" or "Hey, Siri."
Dazed and Disgusted wrote:
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!!!
Do you not understand you are NOT speaking with anyone from Apple here? This is a user to user only forum, which Apple doesn't actively participate. Shouting at other users to fix anything when none of them have any anything to do with Apple will get you nothing.
There is a very simple solution if you want Siri to stop listening after you ask a question. Tap the side power button once. It can't be much easier than that.
the fact we’ve all been complaining about this since they added it and they HAVEN’T REMOVED THE FEATURE… it’s so annoying having my music lowered for an extra 10-15 seconds or Siri hearing someone else talking and ignore the first question
Thank you, Dogcow-Moof. The “bug” I see is that after Siri answer my query on soccer game results & scores, and while I am reading the results out loud to my friends around me, Siri will ‘translate’ my comments as a new query, erasing my original results while displaying a new random one. I know if I say “thank you”, Siri will go away and stop listening, but the results will also go away from the screen. I have already written Apple Support. Thank you, again, for your reply.
Yes it is that simple to end ur interaction with siri but what ur not understanding is that if u click on the link ur reading the information is scattered throughout the page so u have to look around to find all of it. So in this instance siri wasn't any help. The other thing is when u click on the power button as u suggest the information ur trying to read disappears completely. So again siri wasn't any help. All there saying is that if there was a way that you could stop siri from listening to u after you've asked ur question so the information she provided u with was to stay on your screen until ur done with it that would be great.
quadriplegic here. Same problem! I wish I could just roll back to version 15 or 16 before this was released. It is a huge accessibility issue but Apple continues to ignore accessibility community complaints.
Dogcow-Moof wrote:
Personally, I love it, it's nice to not have to say “Siri” each time and the few seconds before Siri stops listening doesn't hurt at all and can be easily bypassed - but that's just me.
Nope, not just you. I think it's great to not have to wake Siri again, if I want to do something follow-on.
zarathu wrote:
My wife says that clearly Siri is very lonely in that tiny little box with no friends, and she welcomes bringing poor lonely Siri into conversations.
Please tell your wife I think she's a thoughtful and nice person!
Has an answer be posted to this question? Or is this a dead end?
Apple usually doesn't provide ways to shut off useful new features.
From New Features Available With iOS 17:
I agree that the feature is annoying, however I have a workaround. Just screenshot the results, tap the little image in the corner, and delete when finished. Yes it’s an extra step, but it at least puts a bandage on the issue.
Do its lack of working properly I’ve had to opt for shutting off Siri and just turning it on when I absolutely need it maybe by this way, the message can be sent to the proper people that I am through with Siri spying
As of a few weeks ago, I realized I could just say, “hey Siri! go away!” and it closed. Not ideal but it has worked reliably.
Why am I here then? Hope springs eternal! 😁
I periodically check to see if they have implemented a parameter. Actually, I would’ve sworn they had, but I don’t see it any longer. It was literally something like “stop listening after responding.”
Perhaps I saw it another technology. I don’t think so, though.
Siri keeps listening after she answers my question on my iPhone
