Siri starts automatically while playing music

Hello everyone,

I actually have two different problems, both appear when I'm playing music with the headphone.


The first one is, that while listening to music and the iPhone is not used, Siri starts automatically.

I tried to disactivate Siri, but the same problem appeared with the voice command application.

I tried to restart my iPhone, without any success.


The second problem is, that music is spooled and sometimes paused.


I noticed that both problems appeared when the iPhone was switched on for a few days.

But since the problem hasn't been solved when I restarted the iPhone I don't think that's the origin.


Could it maybe be because I don't use original apple headphones?

I have the iPhone 6 with iOS 8.0.2


Thanks for replies

iPhone 6, iOS 8

Posted on Oct 16, 2014 12:11 AM

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Oct 16, 2014 12:42 AM in response to Bonfire7

First, you can try resetting your iPhone by simultaneously pressing and holding the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons until you see the Apple Logo. This can take up to 15 seconds so be patient and don't release the buttons until the logo appears. Try again to see if the problem persists.


If that does;t work and you have Hey Siri enabled, turn it off in Settings > General > Siri > Allow "Hey Siri"

Mar 21, 2017 9:16 AM in response to kmbrlyRbnsn

I'm having the same issue.......Siri randomly cuts in when I'm listening to music and asks to help, and music randomly pausing, skipping tracks and playing in fast forward mode.


I've done a hard restart and that didn't help


Did anyone (Apple?) come up with a solution ?


iPhone 6


Classic - as I was typing, iTunes started playing a song on fast forward. Then Siri cut in. Then it skipped to a different song on the same record but in fast forward. Then it skipped to a different record in fast forward. And on and on.

Nov 3, 2014 5:55 PM in response to Bonfire7

I am having this exact problem. The last two times at the gym, both streaming music and music stored on my iPhone was interrupted by Siri. I turned off Siri and then Voice Control came on. I thought turning off streaming might do the trick, but even playback of locally stored music went completely haywire with songs skipping a few seconds at a time.


I am home now testing my Apple headphones on the iPad and had no problems. I moved the headphones back to my iPhone and have had no problems. I changed from wifi to LTE trying to see if that was the problem. It is fine now. I don't know what was happening and still can't figure this out. Maybe the mic is picking up a sound causing Siri to go on. I will try headphones with no mic to see what happens the next time I have a problem. I have an iPhone 5S running iOS 8 and didn't have this problem until I upgraded to iOS 8.

Feb 12, 2015 2:25 PM in response to Bonfire7

I have had problems too. Voice control coming on, song skipping around, play fast (like fast forward), and just abruptly changing songs. Oddly enough, it always happened during the same song(s) or specific album. IE, I had a Tool playlist (loaded on the phone) and certain songs would do this. If I changed to another playlist, doesn't happen. I had read elsewhere (a while back), that it had to do with using non-stock headphones, which I was. Kinda seemed related to the cord at the connector of my headphones, but not always. So a month ago, I started using the ones that came with my 6 plus. Not only have they already started crapping out on me (after only a month?!?!), but the problems have also started creeping back. I think it COULD be related to the headphones though....

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