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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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Dec 29, 2016 4:21 PM in response to Lance Chong

I had this problem too and tried all the suggestions to fix it, without success. The only thing that finally worked was changing headphones. The iPhone didn't like my skull candy headphones - which caused Siri or Voice Control to constantly intervene in my music playing when I hadn't requested or tried to use it - but when I used different headphones the problem stopped. The new headphones that cured the problem are not Apple's but some crappy cheap things I bought from Sport Direct for jogging. So if all else fails, just try different headphones!

Voice Control Keeps on Activating

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