I need to disable to microphone recording thing on imessage, sent recordings to people by accident twice now with near disastrous results!

I was able to get the icon to disappear from the menu bar on the text screen. Mine was for all message types not just imessage. The recorder box would come on and stay on blocking my view of the letters I was typing. I could still send typed messages but I couldn't get the box to go away. I turned off the voice response in the messages setting (see earlier post) but the recorder box and icon were still there. I shut my phone down and then restarted - no more microphone icon in the menu bar and no more recorder box. Let's hope it holds. BTW - I have an I6S on IOS 9 (haven't gone to 9.1 yet).

Good Luck!!

melimaze wrote:

I was able to get the icon to disappear from the menu bar on the text screen. Mine was for all message types not just imessage. The recorder box would come on and stay on blocking my view of the letters I was typing. I could still send typed messages but I couldn't get the box to go away. I turned off the voice response in the messages setting (see earlier post) but the recorder box and icon were still there. I shut my phone down and then restarted - no more microphone icon in the menu bar and no more recorder box. Let's hope it holds. BTW - I have an I6S on IOS 9 (haven't gone to 9.1 yet)

What you're referring to was a bug in iOS 9 that has since be resolved by, I believe the iOS 9.1 update. It is not the same as the built in audio that others want to have turned off.

It's now 2/21/16 and still no way to disable the microphone, it's just there right next to my texting box waiting to be pushed and send an embarrassing conversation unknowingly. It's happened twice to me already. APPLE WHEN WILL YOU ALLOW USERS TO GET RID OF THIS PRECARIOUS FUNCTION???

Thank you, I was talking to some one right after texting some one else previously, what I had said to this person went right to the person I had just texted. Embarrasing. I had no clue it was sent as soon as I pulled the phone from my ear.

aj_in_canada wrote:

The answer to the unwanted voice messages in iMessage appears to be related to the Raise to Listen feature.

Perhaps you didn't actually read the thread. This was already suggested back in 2015. And most people agreed it wasn't the answer to their problem. The "Raise to Listen" only kicks in if someone had sent an audio message to the people complaining about the problem. I don't see that anyone did.

I don't think this feature can be disabled as it is built into iOS with no provision to turn it off. You'll just have to be more careful with what your fingers are doing while holding your iPhone.

Once again, Apple is not here, just users like you. Provide them with your suggestion at the feedback link: http://apple.com/feedback

Tell Apple. Nobody here can do anything about that.

www.apple.com/feedback

Thank you FelipeV.

I had no idea that link existed.

It was in my post. The last one before you posted.

yes i see it doesnt always work, ill try to see if i can find another way.

I just confirmed that disabling imessage removes it but some people like imessage so i guess its a fix for anyone who doesnt use imessage.

That would be correct, since it is only a feature of iMessage.

I had this problem too - Apple support helped me:

> Settings

> Messages

in "Audio Messages" section

Turn OFF "Raise to Listen"

That did it!