How to permanently disable voice control

JB1625 wrote:

jrryan I am having sort of the same problem too I figured out how to turn it off but not permentally. This will hopefully make it to where it doesn't come on startup. First go to the bottom right hand corner and make sure that voice control is running then right click the icon in the bottom right hand corner of your screen then go to options and uncheck "run at startup" and that should make it to where it will come up when ever you start your computer. That way it will not come on untill you turn it on.

I hope that this helped:)

These instructions don't seem to apply to an iPhone.

I am having the same problem on ios 8.3 and it is getting ridiculous cause I cant listen to music or watch videos so apple fix this problem or does anyone else actually know how to fix it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😠😠😠

I changed the home-click speed from default (which must equal super sensitive to anything remotely near it) to slow. It appears to have worked for me - Good luck 😉

settings>general>accessibility>home-click speed>slow

aman41 wrote:

its easy to resolve voice over go to iphn setting<general<accessibility<accessibility shortcut..n there off the marked Voiceover.

problem resolved (y)

Well, it would if VoiceOver and Voice Control were the same thing. But, they're not.

OK. Essentially same issue. iPhone 6s. iOS 10.0.1.

Have Home Button set to "Rest Finger to Open". (I do not like the new way that the Home Button functions.)

Have SIRI disabled.

Have all voice assist type controls off.

HOWEVER... If, in the lock screen, I press and hold the Home Button, I get a Voice Control screen.

Why is that there?

How to I turn off the Voice Control?

I have neither the need, nor the desire to talk to, or be talked to from, my phone!!!!

Thanks.

This is by far the worst feature in the iphone and it actually got worse with the latest update. I have switched off virtually everything that is remotely connected to speech-control (even so far that in settings->general SIRI is not even mentioned any more. But strangely i didn't have this problem until the most recent update. Apple, please help: How do I kill voicecontrol permanently??? I do not ever want it to come up in my phone, not now not ever.

freudsigmund wrote:

I have switched off virtually everything that is remotely connected to speech-control (even so far that in settings->general SIRI is not even mentioned any more.

The reason you don't see anything about Siri under Settings>General anymore isn't because of anything you did. Its because it was moved in iOS 10. Siri now has it's own entry in Settings. You'll find it between Sounds and Touch ID & Passcode.

If you disable Siri, Voice Control is automatically enabled. It's either one or the other. If you leave Siri enabled but disabled in the lock screen, you'll be less likely to invoke anything accidentally.

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.

I just talked to the Apple Hong Kong technical support through their online platform... They told me that, (1) you cannot turn off because this is a build-in function since IOS7😠; (2) probably the "voice control problem" is due to your hardware, so, please backup and take your iphone7 to Apple Store Genius Bar for maintainence😠😠; (3) I asked if it is possible to have an option in the future for users to turn off this function, the reply I got is that "there are not much customers encounter this problem" (that means they do not even bother to acknowledge my problem encountered is a "problem")😠😠😠... well, after all, the lesson I learnt is that 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)

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.

Indeed, and you were never needed here all the same.

The personal preference happens to be shared by untold throngs of people, becoming kind of a shared or collective preference. All are fortunate to have such a luxury device, some especially so as a means to access health care and providers, or to record life-criticial information in a snap. That is now ever more impacted. And while that remains true, I invite you, Meg, to quit being so ableist and elitist in every comment you produce. No one cares, you're not helping except to increasingly appear to be a genuinely uninformed, perhaps obliviously-privileged person.

himguyy wrote:

The personal preference happens to be shared by untold throngs of people, becoming kind of a shared or collective preference.

Please provide citations for the statistics that back up that assumptions. What's funny in all of this is I've never state what my preference is. You've just made a whole bunch of assumptions. The fact that one can't permanently disable voice control does not limit anyone's access to healthcare providers or prevent them from recording data.

Ableist? Telling people that they should submit their feedback to Apple and chose the tool that best meets their needs is ableist?

And of course I'm privileged. I'm white and I live in the U.S. I'm guessing, based on your user name that you're male. If so, that puts you smack in the privileged category yourself. In fact, it's the privileged group that tends to think it's okay to disparage the ideas of women, insult them and generally attempt to silence them in public spaces.

To Meg St._Clair and himguyy. Your last many messages have done nothing to help with the discussion at hand. Mean-tempered banter really should be done elsewhere. Kindly take your anger and accusations off this forum. I suspect that you both know better--this is not the place for the back-and-forth argument.

Users on this forum can only help other users within the limitations of current iOS/iPhone/iTunes functionality. Nothing more. And Apple isn't paying much, if any, attention to the clamor here. The only option is to complain directly to Apple. If enough people do so, Apple may deign to make a change. Or probably not, given the attitude that led to removal of the headphone jack. The only option that remains if the latter is Apple's course is to switch to a brand/model that better meets one's needs. And if one wants to bother, one can tell Apple why one left their ecosystem.