Audio recorder on my iPhone Messages app turns itself on

I have been very annoyed by this occurring, and I FINALLY FOUND THE WAY TO FIX IT!!

Settings > Messages > under “Audio Messages” near the bottom, deactivate “Raise to Listen”

— it’s unclear because the description makes it seem to be about listening and replying to an audio message that’s been sent, BUT IT APPLIES TO THE ‘AUTO-RECORD’ NUISANCE!

Enjoy!

Dr_JY You rock!! I have dug into this issue awhile back and did not find any solution. The steps you give seem to have worked. The language around the setting doesn't even make sense why you would need to raise the phone to your head to reply to an audio message you could keep it at arms length. I bet some people have gotten into some trouble after sending a message and having a recording kick off afterwards and then accidentally sending that.

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These steps fix this annoyance!!

Settings > Messages > under “Audio Messages” near the bottom, deactivate “Raise to Listen”

I had to do SETTINGS - APPS - MESSAGES - RAISE TO LISTEN and it worked for me! You can also do SETTINGS - SEARCH - Type the word RAISE and it will bring you right to it.

I noticed my phone recording other peoples speech after I've texted someone -- it's very annoying to have to delete a few paragraphs of recorded text. I will try turning off the Raise to Listen button. Apple needs to fix this.

I just finished the update and it is there in 18.2.1. Just open SETTINGS and use the SEARCH bar right at the top and search for RAISE and RAISE TO LISTEN will show up along with RAISE TO WAKE. Touch RAISE TO LISTEN and it takes you directly to the setting.

Did you try using the Search option in Settings to search for the word "raise"? It comes up on my phone. SEARCH is right above SIRI in the SETTINGS list. Or go into settings and scroll all the way down to APPS and then look for MESSAGES and then look for RAISE TO LISTEN.

What do you mean it's not available on the 13?? First of all settings are not varied between phone iterations - they're different between OS iterations. Secondly the setting is in fact available on the 13 - regardless of the iOS your 13 is running. Just do what Dr_JY said: Settings > Apps > Messages > Raise to Listen.

Did you try using the Search option in Settings to search for the word "raise"? It comes up on my phone. SEARCH is right above SIRI in the SETTINGS list.

Or go into settings and scroll all the way down to APPS and then look for MESSAGES and then look for RAISE TO LISTEN.

I have 18.1.1 right now. I am updating to 18.2.1 and will see if it is there or not.

This happened to me recently too. Had been reading a text message I’d received out loud to a friend and then closed my case. When I opened it again later I discovered it had recorded my conversation afterwards and was playing it all back. Having never used this function before I didn’t know how to stop it. Eventually was able to delete it but what I’d like to know is if the person who’s text page I was on at the time has heard any of the conversation

Apple, I am having the same problem. It's not just this, but EVERYTHING!!!

living in NYC area you would assume 5g works well, but it is so bad I use LTE. I just got the iPhone 14 last August, this is my last iphone

I am having the same issue. I found this answers/result from 2016, but it sounds like what might be happening: https://www.loopinsight.com/2016/01/06/why-messages-randomly-starts-recording-audio/. I just updated my settings so hoping it stops - I get so stressed I'm going to send a long audio message to someone inadvertently!

Thank you for posting this Dr_JY, this has been bothering me for a year at least and I thought it was some hidden gesture having to do with my hand being seen by the camera or lidar or some kind of bug. Never realized this setting was there. It was one of the few things that was a regular annoyance with my iPhone. Apple: Please prompt people about this the first time they trigger it and ask people if they want the setting to be on or off. And/or default it to off for new users. This will increase your customer satisfaction scores.

NO MATTER WHAT I DO I CANNOT GET THIS TO HAPPEN ON PURPOSE BUT IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME WITHOUT ANY SORT OF DISCERNIBLE INPUT FROM ME. I have tried “raising” the phone when messages is open in an innumerable number of ways and yet it will not work. Then when I stop trying and begin to put the phone down or into my pocket I hear “beep” and it has started recording automatically. WTAF.

Thanks for this Dr_JY… to be honest, I really wonder if Apple have hundreds of software developers who have nothing better to do than spend thousands of hours trying to think of ‘clever’ things to do (like this one) that no one wants or if anything, people find positively annoying. 😳

Audio message was on and I had no idea!!! I am absolutely outraged! This cost me my job! I put my phone in my pocket and the audio message turned on. I was having a personal/ private conversation with a co-worker.. the whole time it was recording my conversation… then actually sent the conversation to the person. I didn’t even see the audio as it deleted itself from my text messages but not before actually sending it to the person.. the only reason I was aware was when I received an irate text message back stating what was said in the conversation I thought was private.. this was brought to my bosses attention and the result was that I and the other person I was speaking to were fired. Tell me how Apple plans on fixing that?

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