siri is still accessable on lock screen

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.

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

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.

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.

No because it's all set to OFF so NOTHING can be accessed from the lock screen at all and we have already tried another finger that is not registered to unlock the phone and Siri still comes up but with the phone locked!

I have home control turned on for my device, so that is not the reason. If you have Siri turned off for the lock screen, and you are using a finger that is not registered for Touch ID and pressing and holding the home button is bringing up Siri, there is something wrong with your particular device. I would restore the iOS to factory, then test the settings. After that you can restore your backup. See if that changes it. If you are not using Home Control, then it really doesn't matter if you leave it off, but there seems to be an issue with your particular device.

AKAXE wrote:

Still could be something wrong with the update. You never know. They're always not 100% working for everyone from day 1. That's why I look forward to the bug fixes in the next update. cheers...

Then it would be happening to everyone or, at the very least a lot of people. It's not. However, if you're content to wait for the next update in the hopes that it will fix this, that's certainly your option. However, it is highly unlikely that there will be a "fix" for this in the next update. It is possible that the process of updating will eliminate some corruption but, you could do that yourself now.

Sort out the issue that Siri is still accessible on lock screen even when turned off in settings. I have the same problem. When holding down the home button with a finger that does not have a finger print on record, Siri comes up. I've tested your theory by having my boyfriend hold my home button down. He does Not have finger print access to my Touch ID. Siri still comes up for him On my lock screen and I have that toggled off

Yes I have the same issue. Siri will still come up on lock screen even when disabled. I have Touch ID and when my boyfriend holds down the home button, he does not have a registered fingerprint, Siri comes up for him.

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. It's being activated when you use your finger that's registered for TouchID.