how do you turn off voice control?

Tap Settings, tap General, tap Passcode Lock, tap Turn Passcode On. When that is enabled, below there is an option to toggle Voice Dial on or off (note: Music Voice Control is always enabled). Unfortunately, if you do not want Passcode Lock on, you cannot disable this feature.

Source: http://ipod.about.com/od/phonefeatures/ss/Using-Iphone-Voice-Control.htm

No - still doesn't turn off pushing and holding for voice control. (iPhone 4S 6.1.3)

BradCol wrote:

No - still doesn't turn off pushing and holding for voice control. (iPhone 4S 6.1.3)

Correct. You cannot turn it off.

I found the solution. Because I have an iPhone 4S with Siri, I turned Siri on, a passcode on, then deactivated Siri from the lock screen.

Deactivating Voice Control from the lock screen doesn't work, but Siri does.

Just wanted to say THANK YOU! This has been driving my husband and I absolutely nuts.

Other than pocket dialing I have had weird instances where random songs just start playing at absurd times.

So thank you for coming back to this thread and sharing your solution.

It's not a solution to the subject of this thread at all. He deactivated Siri, but Voice Control remains on.

It may not be the solution the OP was after, but it is the solution I needed.

The home button on each of our iphone 4s' would get pressed accidentally in our pockets and we would wind up calling someone. With his solution that won't happen anymore.

And for that I'm grateful.

Pressing the home button will activate Voice control insted of Siri, and make the same unwanted calls.

Hello. I recently had this problem, and unfortunately this thread doesn't answer the question. Because it is option #1 on my Google search, I assume it will be someone else's, so I will answer.

The solution to the Voice Control thing is odd. You actually have to turn Siri ON. With Siri on, it replaces Voice Control, and that specifically won't pop up anymore. Instead, Siri will. Siri will do the exact same thing, so now, we make it so Siri doesn't make those calls.

You go to settings>general>passcode lock. Turn it on. Pick a pass code. Then, on the same screen, scroll down and click Siri, turning it off.
This will make it so, in order to use Siri, you have to have typed in the passcode. If the passcode has not been typed, it won't activate. Thus, eliminating calling Mr. Cousin whom you forgot you even had their phone number, and playing embarassing songs during inconvinient moments.
I hope this helped.

modular747, it may not be the "solution to the subject of this thread" but it is the solution to the expanded explanation of what the poster was after (and also what Shelly Toscano and I were after). That was, to stop a phone responding to some sort of voice control when the Home button is accidentally pressed whilsty the phone is locked. Furthermore, your second criticism that "Pressing the home button will activate Voice control insted of Siri, and make the same unwanted calls" is incorrect. A valid criticism would have just been to suggest that the subject should have been amended.

The problem with being so curt is when you are wrong you come across as a fool. Also, you run the risk of frightening off more polite people who may well be able to help (in this instance BradCol has been very helpful).

I appreciate you responses in trying to provide some help, but you may want to reconsider your tone and confidence of your assertions to be of more help in the future.

Thank you BradCol ➕

RykerDJ - having said this thread doesn't offer a solution but you have found the solution yourself, you then go on to offer the exact same solution that BradCol had already given.

Did you join this forum today to post in a dead this thread in order to personally attack me, or did you create a new identity for that purpose? It's not clear which is more pathological.

Anyone who would be "frightened off" by anything posted in this thread has issues far more serious than what can be discussed in Apple Communities.

I was helped by the solution given by BradCol (as were others). It is a solution to the Problem described.

I joined the forum today to acknowledge someone's help and good work, there is nothing pathological about it... help and good work, I might add, which you were quick to (incorrectly) dismiss.

Yet you spent 90% of your ponderous post attacking and lecturing me. If what you wanted to do was to acknowledge the help and thank others, it would have been one short sentence. It was pathological indeed.

Shelly Toscano did just that and you dismissed her and (incorrectly) said it didn't offer a solution to the problem. So whilst echoing her thanks, I also saw it as prudent to address your incorrect posts. Not only to highlight to you why you were incorrect but also as an aid for future readers to find the useful information and not be distracted by your potentially misleading posts.

And having done that, end of conversation.

Your powers of rationalization that you are being "prudent" and only want to correct what I posted don't obfuscate all the inappropriate verbiage about my "tone", appearing to be a "fool" and "scaring off"'others. You obviously have a personal stake in this thread accounting for your out of the blue commentary.