how do you turn off voice control?

Sadly this does not work on iPhone 4 because you cannot enable Siri on it.

Do you have an iPhone 4-specific solution?

Just want to clarify, does this solution with Enabling and then Restricting Siri will drain more battery (or generally make the device slower) becasue Siri will be enabled?

Same problem, iphone4s

Now sorted easily this way:

Settings

General - turn Siri On

Go back to settings screen

General, then Passcode, enter your simple 4 digit code or other passcode.

Underneath the box which explains a simple pass code,,there is the sentence Allow access when locked.

Underneath this it says Siri, tap it to turn it on, when dome another button appears for voice dialing which by default is on.

Tap the voice dialing to turn it off, then tap Siri button to turn it off.

Go back to settings then press the home button to close the screen.

Press the phones Lock button,top right and the job is done.

This only stops the home button from turning voice activation, it does not stop iphones which are randomly dialing numbers with nonuser input.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

M

Thank goodness you have sorted this out. It has been a major pain in the butt for me as I bought a military grade case to protect my pride and joy and it has a raised button over the home button and it dialled evryone every time I bent down to tie my laces. Finally got around to looking up if anyone had sorted it..... Bless you!

My Solution to this problem was to remove all contacts from my iPhone 4, As it seems to be impossible to fix this issue on a phone that doesnt have Siri.

Then I exported all my contacts from the Mac Contacts app into a PDF and then saved that to my phone as a last resort. If you need to use a number from here you need to copy and paste it into the phone dialler (press the white area above the keypad to paste).

Then the most frequently used few numbers I put in a note in the notes app. You can click numbers in notes and select call to call them.

A stupid work around, but there are no other choices on the iPhone 4 other than to buy a new phone, or try to downgrade to iOS 7.0.

BTY, I am using a Verizon 5C CDMA A1532

So, if I am understanding this, the solution to no Voice Control is:

1. To have Siri "ON" in the Settings/General/Siri area.

2. To have the Passcode "ON" (with the "immediately" option chosen) in the Settings/Passcode area, with the Passcode sub-heading "ALLOW ACCESS WHEN LOCKED" -- "Siri" turned "OFF".

And so, after you "slide to unlock" the phone, if you do not then wish to have enter a passcode, then this solution is not an option.

BTY, there was some confusion on my part when following instructions given in this thead that said to go to "Settings" then "General" then "Passcode", because, on my 5C, under the Main Settings, you don't go into the "General" area first to get to Passcode, you instead, from the Main Settings Menu, scroll directly down to "Passcode".

rover2rover wrote:

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BTY, there was some confusion on my part when following instructions given in this thead that said to go to "Settings" then "General" then "Passcode", because, on my 5C, under the Main Settings, you don't go into the "General" area first to get to Passcode, you instead, from the Main Settings Menu, scroll directly down to "Passcode".

You might be the one who is confused.

In IOS 6.x the Passcode option is indeed in Settings > General > Passcode

In IOS 7.x the Passcode option's position has changed as you've noticed to Settings > Passcode.

my phone has the problem too! though it turn the voice control itself, it also playing music and using facetime connecting with others whether there is having WIFI or not. Furthermore, my phone 4 is captured the picture and photos two or more time when I want to turn off by clicking the lock button.

I'm using IOS 7.1.1 so my phone has a different notion that I recently want to provide and share with you guys. My phone is usually and randomly turn on by itself. Furthermore, my phone is getting activated with voice control all the time. I cannot believe that it turn on and activate with "voice control" by itself. Moreover, when it activate with voice control, it itself turn on music and starting Facetime connecting with others whether there is having WIFI or not. At this case, I really get bored

make sure siri is turned on

go to settings

then passcode

scroll to "allow access when locked" turn siri off

now your phone won't pocket dial when in lock screen

i cant find siri in settings-general

iphone 4

iPhone 4 do not have Siri.

I dislike Voice Control. I activated it once form home screen, left the phone alone to see what would happen, and it ended up FaceTime dialing a random contact on my phone. It must have heard some background noise, a TV for example, but this does not matter because for sure the fact is : your phone decides to make video calls without the owner acknowledging. And to not be able to disable this feature is a liability for Apple, at least I know I would make it one if that FaceTime call actually went through.

I agree. I've had nothing but problems with voice control turning on by itself (even after Siri has been deactivated) - with TWO DIFFERENT phones (both 4S), so it's not a hardware issue.

I hate to say this, but Siri is a real b*itch in my opinion. What a jealous mistress! If you are disabled... leave us alone. It's over. Move on.

Apple, please fix this problem.

I have THE solution. Not sure if it was answered. You can disable the Voice Control (not siri) by removing the voice control shortcut. Right now your phone is set to enter voice control when the home button is pressed 3 times in a row.

Go to Settings => General => Accessibility => Accessibility Shortcut => Unselect VoiceOver.

No more embarrassing phone calls. I had the same problem with my iPhone 4.