How to permanently disable voice control

Hi,

Maybe you found the answer, but for the people, who will have such problem I decided to share=)

I had same problem, and it was annoying me. I searched a lot to fix this, but accidently I found how to do it. Here is the way: Settings->General->Accessability->Home Button->in "PRESS AND HOLD TO SPEAK" part choose Off and thats it

hope it'll help

lmarissi wrote:

Hi,

Maybe you found the answer, but for the people, who will have such problem I decided to share=)

I had same problem, and it was annoying me. I searched a lot to fix this, but accidently I found how to do it. Here is the way: Settings->General->Accessability->Home Button->in "PRESS AND HOLD TO SPEAK" part choose Off and thats it

hope it'll help

Yup, Apple just added this setting. I suspect that you have all the people who submitted feedback to thank!

friedl.basson wrote:

Hi -

Settings > General > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut --> Disable

Hope this helps.

Friedl

That is not how you turn off Voice Control. As has been previously noted in this thread, to turn off Voice Control, you go to Settings>General>Accessibility>Home Button>Press and Hold to Speak>Off

Settings>General>Passcode Lock> enter Passcode>Voice Dial off. This will still allow voice control to be activated but will not inadvertantly dial any phone numbers.

I have the same problem as jrryan.

Disabling triple click home doesnt fix the problem. I have also deactivated voice control (settings> general> code lock). The problems remains. Voice control keeps kicking in all the time...

Does anyone know how to get rid of the funktion compleatly?

Meg St Clair, like an overwhelming number of Apple cronies trolling this discussions forum since always, is a pompous æss who never understands (seemingly with purposeful intent) the concerns brought by users to the very forum where assistance should be found for their Apple devices. Instead, they find their most useful response to be things like, 'You should do what best meets your needs. No one here cares which phone you decide to use.' They basically accuse everyone in a very ableist and elitist fashion of being stupid and using their device incorrectly. Seriously, shut the **** up unless you have something that helps the user. This isn't the Eat-it-if-you-do-not-worship-Apple forum. What best meets their needs is an actual Apple-provided solution. In this case, the ability to leave voice control fully and always disabled.


It is not unreasonable to want for the home button to do nothing except for illuminate the screen, to unlock a device, and to navigate a device while unlocked. I posit it is very much a concern of accessibility and basic usability. Not everyone using an Apple device uses it the exact same way as you, Meg.

Personally, I cast a million votes for full home button option control that allows fully disabling voice control in the highest sense without affecting other home button, Siri, or accessibility settings.

iOS 10.x seems to have shortened the time required to hold the home button before voice control is activated. It's too quick that half of my attempts at screen capture (home + lock buttons) instead enable voice control, then immediately lock the device, no capture recorded. It's only like this because Apple changed it to be like this. Again, not everyone uses their device just like Meg uses hers. If you can imagine it, some people prefer Apple devices yet live with health concerns that limit their ability to press buttons together within a half-second sequence.

Alas, Apple was sure everything is just right. I tell you it is not, it can be better and inclusive of many more users with a couple of options alongside the existing options. I know that Apple likes revenue and more of it. Doesn't that happen by successfully reaching existing as well as new customers?

Copied to http://www.apple.com/feedback/ . Save your breath, Meg.

Hi -

Settings > General > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut --> Disable

Hope this helps.

Friedl

I don't lean on the home buttom! I don't lean on any part of my phone, but sometime one buttom is pressed accidentally. This is the reason for the key lock. I just what to know how to dissable the voice dail if this one button is pressed.

for the love of god, my voice control pops up, **** up my button and nothing works. have restore and reset the iphone a million times and it is still ******. would love apple to give us the solution.

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It's beyond ridiculous. Paying customers have been complaining about not being able to shut off Voice Control since July of LAST YEAR. I've put up with this nonsense for 2 days straight along with the fact that my home button won't work. Voice Control looks for music, tries to do Face Time, and even makes calls... all 3 without my permission! Apple needs to fix these problems NOW, because us customers are sick of this nonsense.

why Apple can't make that we could Fully Disable Voice Control?

I'm very angry it call people every time. I think we musst do a bell to apple for all cost for all call my iphone do alone...

what musst we do? jailbreak?

Meg_St. Clair, I will take your word for it that if you disable Siri, Voice Control is automatically enabled. However, in my opinion this is a poor design. The developers should have allowed the selection of Siri, Voice Control, or neither.

yeeyeeyee wrote:

I will NEVER ask for help from APPLE online platform again, and I think it's time to start looking for an alternative (Android phone)

You should do what best meets your needs. No one here cares which phone you decide to use.

Best of luck.

himguyy wrote:

It is not unreasonable to want for the home button to do nothing except for illuminate the screen, to unlock a device, and to navigate a device while unlocked. I posit it is very much a concern of accessibility and basic usability. Not everyone using an Apple device uses it the exact same way as you, Meg.

I understand precisely what people want in this thread. I also understand that no one here can give it to them. I never suggested that what anyone wants is unreasonable. Personal preferences are just that: personal. I'm really not sure where all this hostility comes from. You might want to consider why one feature of a luxury device is causing you to be so rude and unpleasant to someone you don't even know. I understand it would make you feel more validated if everyone here agreed with you that this is somehow an awful thing. But, that's not likely to happen.

What I am suggesting is that no one here can make the change people want. And, more important, if something like that makes you so unhappy, you should definitely get a different phone. No one should make themselves that agitated over a little bit of metal and glass.