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Voice Control Keeps on Activating

Hi, I just got the iphone4 and went performing the normal sync. Upon completion, suddenly the voice control gets activated without being called upon. It does that all the time and it's getting annoying.

How can I get rid of this?

Iphone 4, iOS 4, nil

Posted on Aug 31, 2010 1:59 AM

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Posted on Apr 23, 2017 9:35 AM

People keep suggesting that turning off Siri fixes the problem but for many people this isn't working. I turned off Siri a month ago and now I have the exact same problem with voice control

Activating randomly... like whenever I move my phone with headphones in. My podcasts also speed up and slow down or stop playing randomly.... this only happens when I listen to podcasts which ***** because I listen to them every day on my walks.... I've tried 3 different pairs of headphones so the only thing I can think of now is maybe the wires are loose in all 3? This is getting ridiculous... i also can't believe that someone from Apple hasn't chimed in yet with a solution as I believe this thread started in 2013.

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Mar 5, 2011 11:39 AM in response to TShahady

I am experiencing the same issue with my iPhone3GS - when I plug in my In-Ear Headphones, the Voice Control will randomly kick-in. So I just spent the last hour trying to figure out how to use the Voice Controls. No luck- when selecting an artist, it totally misses and plays something very different.

I haven't tried the Voice Controls for anything else - so now I'd be very curious if anyone knows how to simply shut it off and lock it out?

Apr 26, 2011 8:20 AM in response to Lance Chong

This problem is a reoccurring and complete pain in the a -- for me. I use my phone as my work line, and voice control activates seemingly for no reason, cutting my phone connection off. Then the iPod begins to furiously play for no apparent reason. Worse yet it comes and goes. Things calm down and I figure it's been taken care of by powering down or an update, but out of nowhere it activates again. It could be just sitting on a table and there it goes again! I want to just get rid of the feature, I never use it.

Nov 2, 2011 5:51 PM in response to Lance Chong

Yep. My iphone 3gs , iphone 4 , and of course, now iPhone 4s, Siri pops up every time I workout. This is ridiculous . Apple come on !! I'm my other devices the solution I found was to jailbreak my iphone and thanks to the jailbreak community there was a "tweak" to disable voice control. I wasn't planning to JB my iPhone 4s now I'm going do it if you guys dont find a solution !

Apr 2, 2012 8:13 AM in response to Lance Chong

I have similar Issue and it is annoying.I went to apple store and Genius frm genius bar suggests me to replace th ephone by paying 149 dollars.



I think Apple intentinally created these type of bugs and pushing them to th ephone which are not under warranty, SO that People can Buy new i phones and APPLE can increase their revenue.

Mar 4, 2013 4:12 AM in response to Lexiepex

My Iphone 4 32GB started having this issue when I downloaded the 2 last 6.1.X... VOICE CONTROL pops-up even when I sleep and calls random people just by the sound of the snoring... in FACETIME even more annoying.

I confirm that it does this day and night and even when it phone is locked..


The guys at ISTUDIO confirmed it was a software problem, they even re-installed the iOS for me...




Is there any department in APPLE that can resolve this really important issue?


Thank you

Voice Control Keeps on Activating

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