how do you disable audio recording in the text messages?

When holding my iphone 6+ idly in my right hand (and I am right handed) my thumb rests at the bottom right corner of the screen - an accidental swipe up from there is a common enough occurrence. If I had just sent a text and forgot to hit the home button or sleep my phone (which does happen occasionally) and the gesture in question happened - it is possible that I might inadvertently record a conversation and send it unknowingly. This could be potentially (and was in actuality) VERY awkward at best! 🙂

Is there currently any way to turn this feature off or move the location of the button?

If not, is a solution in the works?

If not can I suggest that Apple get on that ASAP?!?!?

Talk about your technology potentially detonating an emotional bomb in your life... I would think that from a business perspective the liability factor would be high enough that it would be a priority to fix this "bug"/oversight on Apple's part. 😮

Any and all help and/or suggestions are appreciated - I am not willing to "jail-break" my phone and I need a solution other than "be more careful" or "change how you hold your phone" (obviously in the meantime I will have to work on both of those things).

Thanks!

iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 8.1.2

Posted on Jan 21, 2015 7:48 AM

25 replies

Jgguffin

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4 points

Feb 20, 2017 11:09 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

I guess my confusion stems from the fact that you say holding your phone in your right hand that you can barely get your thumb "down to that corner," which makes absolutely no sense, because as I hold my phone in my right hand, the button for recording an audio message and sending it is right where my thumb NATURALLY RESTS. So either your phone, or your thumb, are unnaturally positioned in relationship to your hand, or you were confused about which microphone I was talking about. So happy for you that this has never happened to you or anyone you know. I guess things that don't happen to you or people you know are imaginary problems, so you must naturally not believe in quite a few things. Cheers!

Feb 20, 2017 6:46 PM in response to Jgguffin

When I hold my phone in my right hand, the microphone is down in the lower right corner. My thumb naturally rests about at the center of the phone. To get my thumb down there, I would have to bend it in at a very sharp angle, a position I simply can't accomplish. It would also mean the phone is not held securely and I have, when I've tried to do this, have the phone drop out of my hand. The button is very easy to reach when I have the phone in my left hand (as I usually do) but not somewhere I'd hit it accidentally. There is nothing unnatural about either my thumbs or the way I hold the phone. Just because someone does something differently that you do doesn't make it "unnatural".

Jun 6, 2017 5:59 AM in response to Nickphresh

Nickphresh wrote:

It happens to me all the time, so I understand. Mistakenly recording a message and sending it is easier than they think. But, Hopefully there will be an alternative with the audio message soon.

Did you submit your feedback to Apple?

drdebking Author

Level 1

4 points

Jan 21, 2015 11:09 AM in response to razmee209

Thank you so much razmee209 I will input the feedback - it looks like it is not a feature that can be turned off or on yet. Hopefully it will be addressed at some point in the future.

razmee209

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Jan 21, 2015 11:11 AM in response to drdebking

You're welcome.

ManSinha

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Jan 21, 2015 2:52 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

Interesting that one can deny permission for the mic to Whatsapp, Telegram etc through Privacy but not the native messaging app

Never thought about that until today - ah well

May 7, 2016 9:46 AM in response to drdebking

BEST SOLUTION: DOWNLOAD A NEW KEYBOARD!! The audio text is part of the keyboard, so get a new one that doesn't offer audio text. It's the only way without hacking into your own phone.

Jun 5, 2017 7:20 PM in response to drdebking

It happens to me all the time, so I understand. Mistakenly recording a message and sending it is easier than they think. But, Hopefully there will be an alternative with the audio message soon.

Jun 6, 2017 7:43 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

I have . Thanks.

Jun 6, 2017 8:50 AM in response to Nickphresh

Nickphresh wrote:

I have . Thanks.

Excellent!

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