Grey oval with a timer (0:00) over my "compose" box in Messages

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Grey oval with a timer (0:00) over my "compose" box in Messages

I upgraded to iOS 9 some 12+ hours ago. All was well...until moments ago. I have suddenly encountered a very frustrating problem upon reply to messages.

Replying to any message is near impossible because the "enter text" frame used to compose a message is obscured by a grey filled oval with what appears to be a timer i.e. 0:00 at right-hand-side of oval.

I notice many people experiencing same online but I struggle to find solution.

Can you provide a solution to this problem?

iPhone 6, iOS 9

Posted on Sep 18, 2015 10:07 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 23, 2015 5:52 AM in response to 007_Dan_The_Man

I Get this aswell. I'm assuming it's a bug that needs to be fixed. In the meantine iv found that if I double press the home button and swipe up the messages effectively closing the app temoves this oval box. Mine has come back twice but if I do this I can go back to typing. A quick fix for now. Hope this helps

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Answer 2

Oct 1, 2015 6:31 PM in response to Njcook175

It may be the Raise to Listen feature, go to Settings-Messages, scroll right down & turn it off.

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Answer 3

Oct 11, 2015 1:44 AM in response to 007_Dan_The_Man

It's a bug in iOS 9. When you try to send message and proximity sensor activate, your phone think your sending audio message and it want to start recording voice. That box is for audio message in iMessage if you saw that before. If you close your message application (from multitask) and open it again it must go.

You can stimulate it by going to message and hold your phone on your ear (do this for 4-5 times) and it comes back again.

✅ ✅ One solution is: Go to Settings > Messages > Activate iMessage (If it's not) > Turn off "Raise to Listen"

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Answer 4

Oct 13, 2015 9:49 AM in response to 007_Dan_The_Man

I rad on another thread that if you shut off the "message subject" option, it goes away. Trying that now. Has nothing to do with Siri, as far as I can figure out..

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Answer 5

FoxFifth

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Oct 13, 2015 9:51 AM in response to 007_Dan_The_Man

A significant number of people are having that problem since iOS 9. One solution (at least a temporary one) is to quit Messages and then double-click the Home button to open the app switcher. In the app switcher find the Messages app and slide it up to remove it. Then close app switcher by clicking the Home button. That should solve the problem -- for a while at least.

Other solutions that are working for some (at least temporarily) include: restarting the phone, or going to Settings > Messages and toggle either the Show Subject Field or Character Count setting or turn Raise to Listen off.

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Answer 6

Oct 13, 2015 10:02 AM in response to 007_Dan_The_Man

I shut off the 'message field' and, so far, that seems to have worked. If that annoying "grey non-timer" thing comes back, I'll read up on other solutions. Good to know I am not the only one. I am surprised that Apple hasn't responded in some way! Seems that this is happening to a lot of people!

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