siri is still accessable on lock screen

Did you try a reset on the phone after changing that setting? Hold the sleep/wake and home button together until you see the Apple logo and then release. After the phone reboots, see if it works.

i have found this too. what i figured it to be is the fingerprint sensor is actually unlocking the phone and because you are holding the home button it goes straight to siri.

i got my son to hold the button and try and it just says try again and wont activate the phone or siri

I never thought of that angle. Very good information. It is very probable that this is the case, versus a problem with accessing Siri from the lock screen. The only thing that could put a "hole" in your thinking would be if the poster does not have Touch ID active.

It is actually going straight to siri after unlocking via fingerprint id. I have had siri pop up several time as I am getting used to the new fingerprint id because I hold the button down too long.

davestylee wrote:

Hi guys

I am having an issue with siri on my iPhone 5s.

I have turned off the function that allows siri to be accessable on the lock screen, but if I hold down the home button when the phone is locked you can still use siri.

I have an iPhone 5s running iOS7.0.1

Try using a finger you do not have registered and see if siri still comes up in your lock screen. I bet you get the try again message instead of siri

I just noticed this on my 5s as well. Does anyone know how to stop this from happening? It's quite a privacy/security issue IMO

Thanks!

Come on, it was not a security issue. Thanks to touch ID, Siri was working even if disabled on locked screen only for fingerprints registered.

It was very useful (to launch a timer, call a contact). But now, with iOS 7.1, it does not work anymore.

It's quite annoying. If I have to unlock my phone, I can use the control center or my phone book instead of Siri.

I hope it will come back.

do you have a passcode lock? if so go to settings/passcode lock and down to the section Allow access when locked and see what setting you have there for Siri

Yes I have a passcode.

But if I allow access when locked, everybody can launch Siri, not just me and my fingerprints. 🙂

The only setting I have when allowing access when locked is speech commands.

Yes I have this issue too and it's annoying! I hope they sort it out in the next update!
I turned off Siri until they fix it and that hasn't helped either as 'Voice Control' comes up instead! Argh! 😕
Using a different finger doesn't work it is a fault by holding down the Home button. Turning off access from lock screen doesn't work! 😐

Andy 🙂

Sort what out. There is nothing wrong or fix. This thread is about the fact that if a user has Touch ID activated and uses a finger that is registered in Touch ID, then that is unlocking the phone and holding the button down is unlocking the phone and activating Siri because the phone is unlocked. It is not activating Siri while the phone is locked. The solution is to use a finger that is not registered to Touch ID so you are not unlocking the phone.

AKAXE wrote:

I turned off Siri until they fix it and that hasn't helped either as 'Voice Control' comes up instead! 🙂

Yes, that's the way it has always worked. If you turn off Siri, Voice Control is enabled. If you don't want either accessible from the lock screen, turn Siri back on, and disable it on the lock screen.

Yes, but what our problem is that since the latest update to ios10 you select disable from lock screen but Siri is still useable from the lock screen even though you've disabled it! 😐 So they need to look into that because the turn OFF is not OFF. ON is still ON there is just no disabled from lock screen working when selected, that's the fault.😕

AKAXE wrote:

Yes, but what our problem is that since the latest update to ios10 you select disable from lock screen but Siri is still useable from the lock screen even though you've disabled it!

No, it's not. You're unlocking the phone with your fingerprint when you invoke Siri.