How can I turn off voice messaging inside iMessage? I’m not talking about dictation. That setting is off. I mean the ability to accidentally hit the sound icon to the right side of the message prompt. It is way too easy to accidentally hit that while reading someone’s message and then randomly sending them everything my mic pics up.
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iPhone 6, iOS 11
There is no option to completely remove the red icon beside the message field. However, it would be convenient to have an option to turn it off completely, as I also sometimes mistakenly start a voice recording. What you can do to lessen the chances of accidentally recording a voice message is to turn off the Raise to Listen option, or turn on the Dictation option, which will replace the red icon with a microphone. This microphone icon is not easily triggered, and you have to hold it down. For the steps, you can also read this guide for more information on the issue: Fix Automatic Audio Recordings in iMessage
It takes literally 5 seconds to read the first post and understand that we aren’t talking about voice dictation here. No offense to you but you are the 800th person to get downvoted because they are telling us how to turn off the wrong thing because they aren’t reading and just assuming they know the answer.
Downvote applied….
DGM1975 wrote:
No offense to you but you are the 800th person to get downvoted because they are telling us how to turn off the wrong thing because they aren’t reading and just assuming they know the answer.
As there far fewer than 800 people have posted in this thread, that seems unlikely.
People are doing their best to help. They may not always get it right but they are making a positive effort.
Thank goodness. That seems to have worked. I have gotten rid of the red audio lines and am back to the microphone on the right side of the text box. If I try to turn off dictation altogether the red lines come back, but I guess at least it is progress.
I am having this issue as well, sending unintended voice messages. I do not want to turn off dictation because I often send messages through Car Play. However, this morning someone informed me that they received an audio message from me and sent me a screen shot of our message stream showing this message. However, IT DOESN'T SHOW UP IN MY MESSAGE STRING. So how many of these have gone out without my knowledge. This is unacceptable Apple and a clear violation of my privacy rights.
A couple of months ago I thought I would experiment to have my iPhone do some fancy stuff and then I lost track of what I changed in my system settings and what you described happened to me. After pulling my hair out and fighting with it for a month I finally found this problem solving log and here is what I found (it took me 2 hours) I FINALLY noticed a small icon on the top of my iPhone (see pic) that was not there before.
I did some research on it...turned it off and voila!!! I do not have your above problem anymore! Not sure this helps for everyone...but it helped me. Good luck
This works -but also disables Siri, which I wouldn’t mind most of the time. The problem is when driving and I want to initiate a hands free call, the button on my steering wheel for voice dial turns on Siri.
Apple, and Microsoft, need to make it easier to disable features we don’t want that cause problems.
Several times per day I find that iMessages has been recording and I find I need to delete a sound message. I do use dictation because it is much quicker way of getting text into a message than any other method. However, I never send voice text so I would really appreciate a way to turn that feature off completely.
Who has time to listen to voice messages these these days?
This also worked for me! Thanks! The red stacked lines went away which was recording automatically and when I would go to delete it would actually just send some jarbled recording… very annoying. It was only on specific iMessage threads this would happen. So weird. But thanks!
I’d like to know the answer. I’m in iMessage on my iPhone. I must have hit audio my mistake. The audio message to record keeps coming up. I can write a reply but then the audio with the red recording stuff comes right back up. None of the other choices photos etc are right Now help me
The voice mail feature can become a liability for apple. I sent a message unknowingly and it was hurtful. It’s not fair for you to force this down someone’s throat without an out. Does privacy really matter to Apple?
Pdeamer wrote:
The voice mail feature can become a liability for apple. I sent a message unknowingly and it was hurtful. It’s not fair for you to force this down someone’s throat without an out. Does privacy really matter to Apple?
How is it Apple's fault you tapped the send button without looking to see what you were sending?
Let Apple know your thoughts here:
i agree 100%. this is the most annoying setting i’ve ever dealt with! i have sent numerous voice text sometimes in a work thread that let’s just say “ younger co workers “ have a ball busting me up about!! LOL OMG, plz. anyway. how the heck do i stop this BS
Completely agree! Yes I can turn on dictation and the microphone appears and it makes it harder to inadvertently send a voice message! But I want it gone completely! Apple used to be the most user friendly, but sadly it’s becoming more and more difficult! I hate the new update for the watch as well, I can no longer drag the menu from the top to easily turn off the notifications!
What they’re doing is toggle Ong dictation back on. This changes the red “voice recognition”/“voice message” into the microphone once again. Apparently, all of us who tried to get rid of them microphone last time just got blitzed by the red lines on the newest update. Apple really wants to spy on us and trigger these dumb voice messages. What an infuriatingly user-unfriendly feature. Apple needs to fix this.
Ddkkww wrote:
Go to General, Keyboard and scroll down to Enable Dictation
1) The post that you're replying to is almost 6 months old, and 2)the post specifically said that they are NOT asking about dictation.
How can I disable voice message feature?
