iOS 8 voice dialing, "Just to confirm..."

Had the same problem and the only permanent fix I found is to delete the contact and re-enter from scratch. Not a good solution for a huge phone book, but at least for the numbers you call most often. Worked for me.

ios 8 is the buggiest thing I've ever seen from apple. Things like this, iphoto events in random order and contacts losing custom ringtones makes me wonder if it's time to give android another look...

This method does not work for me... I have the same behavior whether or not the contact is a new one or not...

I think I may have found somewhat of a workaround. From my testing, it doesn't happen if the contact is in my Favorites. Doesn't matter whether the person has one phone number or multiple, I get no "just to confirm" if they're in my Faves...

Hopefully someone else can confirm this. And I recommend we all head over to http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html to let them know how we feel, and ask for the option to turn it off, at the very least!

Good luck!

John

I just tried the favorite. And it worked for me; so thanks for that. I will keep testing. I am not sure how favorite will impact me in other ways; so I need to see what this does in other areas of use.

If another thread is started, post it here for us to see and I am happy to support it.

Thanks for the confirmation Matt! At least there's a bit of a workaround available...

This didn't happen on my iPhone 5. On my brand-new iPhone 6 it happens all the time. This is quite painful... Just to Confirm..

Apple and Siri are getting less and less useable. I pretty much don't even use Siri any more because she won't shut up ... it takes too long to make calls now. Does Apple even read these boards????

There are no official Apple representatives on this board - as to whether peeps from Apple read it or not - I do not know

No one from Apple "officially" reads these boards, but I sure hope someone from their QA team does!

The recommended way to make sure someone hears you is to use their feedback page at:

http://apple.com/feedback

...and here's the specific page for iPhone feedback, where you'd want to report your experiences with this new behavior:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Good luck!

John

Try giving most-called contacts a nickname or relationship. Tell her "Jay C*** is my husband" and she remembers it. Then just ask to call "my husband" and she does not say "Just to confirm..."

I tried this with several others: Mother, my sister, my friend. She did not ask to confirm any of them when I called them by the nickname.

Just came across this thread while researching the "confirm" behavior with one contact (that I've noticed so far). Having read through all of this, it occurred to me that I may have more than one entry for the contact in question. I did, though I'm not sure how, have two contacts with the exact same information (company name, work address and phone number). I deleted one of them and asked Siri to call the company name. It worked without asking for me to confirm that I wanted to call the contact.

I suspect Siri was not asking me if I wanted to make a call but was asking me to confirm which of the two contacts I had that I wanted to call... possibly the first, but that's only a guess.

So, in case it helps, you may want to search through your contacts for duplicate entries. It may not be an exact duplicate of all fields, but if you've got overlapping information across more than one contact it could be prompting Siri's "confirm" function to verify which of the contacts you want to use.

Good luck!

Apple and Siri are getting less and less useable. I pretty much don't even use Siri any more because she won't shut up ... it takes too long to make calls now. Does Apple WANT to **** us off? I'm convinced people at Apple never actually use their own products or they'd realize how f'ing annoying their features are.