Siri for iPad activating itself when headphones plugged in...

Hi there,

Thought I'd post back - I visited the Apple Store Genius Bar and was all ready to swap my iPad Air. But then the nice chap at the Genius Bar spent a good half hour trying out my headphones with some of the display Airs - and, lo and behold - the same effect was experienced (reproducibly, though intermittently) on the display models.

He's going to report it to Apple for escalation, as it appears that something to do with the design of the socket causes this effect with certain headphones. I let him know about the closeness of the contacts which might be the reason for this.

Cheers,

Gopha

I've been having pretty much the same problem with my iPhone 5S ... When I have my earpods, in my music will randomly pause or play and Siri will randomly activate . It doesn't happen as soon as I plug my earpods in though, & it doesn't happen all the time- just often enough to be annoying .

Hopefully someone finds a solution soon !

I Had this exact problem and I was using the Samsung Headphones so what I did was

- turned iPad fully off and on again

- turned 'hey Siri' off

- changed the headphones I was using to the Apple ones

i think that it wasn't so much the turning off but changing the headphones that fixed it for me as it didn't happen with out headphones so that made me think the problem was with the headphones Not the device.

if you are using the apple ones already try using other ones as that might help too.

hope this helped ~ I'm on ipad Air iOS 9.2

Hello,

I know this post is really old now, but I'm having this issue with my iPhone SE and apple earpods. It's like the button on the earpods is pushing itself repeatedly. When I'm listening to music, the music will constantly pause, play, skip, fast forward, and activate siri. I've tried cleaning out the headphone jack, and nothing happened. I don't think it's my phone, but the earpods themselves. Does anyone know if there's a way to fix this?

Thanks,

Zoe

I am having the same issue. Whenever my headphones are in iTunes will randomly start, change songs, occasionally play multiple at once. Also Siri will randomly pop up. It seems to be when the part of the headphones itself is touched or turned but sometimes just when the phone is sitting on a table untouched. Does anyone know how to fix it?

I have the same issue recently. Using iPhone 6 Plus... haven't had this problem before. I did have the iPhone 6 Plus changed (due to the touch screen problem) a month or two back. But I don't think it's the iPhone or iOS really... well, I also get the feeling the earphones I am using (the standard white ones that come with all iPhones) are maybe broken or something. Music skips, stops, goes to next track, activates Siri and all kinds of crazy things. I will try another pair of earphones, if I can find any... I have a bunch laying around at home... At least this is the first time I encounter this problem. iPhone user since 2009.

turn off siri from settings when using headphone. worked for me

You can just turn off Siri completely so it will stop happening I've had the same problem and after I turned Siri off it never has happened si

unfortunately this didn't work for me :( i have this issue and after turning siri off now it just keeps asking if i want to use siri and tries to use voice control

I am having this exact same problem right now on my iPad. The rest doesn't work and I don't have any more software updates available is there anything else I can do?

Your socket has lint at the back which is causing the issue.

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