Driving mode won’t turn off

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Driving mode won’t turn off

My phone, iPhone 16 pro max, will not turn off from driving mode this morning. I’m in the house and my husband took the car I usually drive to the gym. The “ driving “ icon came up and won’t disconnect. I’ve turned focus mode to manual. I’ve turned the phone off twice. No change. And now when I tried to edit the picture by drawing on the picture by hitting the pencil ion at top, the “ save picture “ ion comes up and I can’t draw on the picture. What is happening.

Posted on Jan 15, 2026 2:17 AM

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LD150

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Jan 15, 2026 3:24 AM in response to Diana Krause

I hope you are not sharing the same Apple account ID with your husband.

Assuming you are not sharing, my advice would be either set the driving focus to manual, or remove driving focus altogether. There is a chance the car was near enough to connect to your phone by bluetooth.

Regarding saving the edited photo, tap the blue check mark after editing, it does not know if you need to edit more til you tap it.

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