How to permanently disable voice control

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.

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)

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.

lauren_teo wrote:

hi, i tried this yesterday and it worked for me !

settings -> general -> accessibility -> reachability (OFF it)

hope it helps!

This has no effect on either Siri or Voice Control. Reachability is the feature that if allows you to touch the home button twice to slide the screen down.

lauren_teo wrote:

it probably is the feature to do what you mentioned it does, but who cares as long as it helped to disable the voice control issue? 🙂

Because changing the reachability setting will NOT disable Voice Control. The only way to disable Voice Control is to enable Siri. What is more likely to have happened is you got used to the Home button and aren't accidentally invoking Voice Control any more.

settings> general> accesbilty. make sure the triple click home option doens't have voice over on it. Also make sure voice over is off... but there isn't a way to perm. take it off

In that case enabling Siri might the best option. But in my (dutch) iPhone 6 with 10.0.1 (14A403) Siri isn't where you say she is. How can I then enable Siri?

ya you need to disable triple click home

I just purchased my iPhone 4, and did not think it was uplifting to have to wait for the iPhone 5 .. ;-) Thanks for your feedback

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do you have to have a passcode on iPhone? never knew that lol

ive never had one but on ipod touch you don't need one

Don't lean on the home button? I have never found this to be a problem. Try to find how you are pressing the home button long enough to engage your problem, and figure an alternative behaviour.