How do I disable voice control in iOS 10?

agree, i am reconsidering upgrading my phone to the new iphone 7, i really dislike this feature .. several times it has tried to dial my boss

Somebody marked it solved but ....

This issue is not solved. That's for sure.

To summarize my experience:

1. I have turned Siri on and thus bypass the voice control from taking charge

2. I have disabled Siri from being activated from the lock screen

This all should prevent accidental activation of the voice related communication with my phone, but it does not.

This is what I see happening:

When I start my car (Peugeot 3008) with my iPhone 6 (iOS 10.1) in my left front pocket I can see a dummy call initiated on the car radio and hear the radio program being muted. The only way to resume listening to the radio is to make a phone call from the handset. The connection between the handset and car radio is bluetooth, not Carplay.

I did a test with the car running and radio playing. When the phone is inactive touching the home button does indeed acticate Siri to ask how she/it can assist me, giving a list of cases how to assist. At the same time the car radio is muted and a dummy call is initiated on it. Pressing the power off button on the side of the phone turns Siri off and the radio on again.

If there is a way to eliminate Siri before the phone is properly opened then that would satisfy my needs. Simply disabling Siri doesn't do the trick.

The ultimate request from me would be to be able to toggle both Voice control and Siri off and simply use the phone with my fingers. But this will require actions by Apple in a future version of iOS.

Meanwhile, Siri has a parameter "Voice feedback" which I have turned to "Control with Ring Switch". All options have voice feedback on when used with bluetooth.

There is also a "Restrictions" section under General parameters in settings, that I now will try out. I can see that you can turn on restrictions and deny Siri & Dictation as well as CarPlay. I'll give this a try and inform you dear followers if this has any impact for me.

Returning to my previous message I can now confirm that Restrictions / Siri & Dictation did drop Suri ad a whole and resulted in the initial state where Voice control took over.

This was not a solution to the problem.

I have a new IPHONE SE. I turned off SIRI. I enabled touch ID. Everything seemed to work.... After the 3rd day of owning the phone it started acting differently. Sometimes (sometimes often and sometimes less often) when I depress the "home" button to unlock the phone, the phone will not unlock. Instead, it will enable "Voice Control" and start waiting for voice commands. I then can not unlock the phone. So I shut the phone off and try again. Maybe it works on the second try or maybe it finally works on the 10th try. This is not good function. This is not a $500 phone.

I've tried all of the solutions listed here. They did not work. The best solution for me is this:

-- Go to Settings/Accessibility/Home Button and turn on "Rest Finger to Open"

-- Now you do not depress the home button to unlock ... you just rest your finger on the home button. And since you do -not depress the home button, the Voice Control never gets a chance to bug you.

This is a hack. Not a solution. A real solution would mean that my iphone would work repeatedly as purchased when depressing the "home button" ...

this problem didnt surface for me until IOS 10 download so i changed the click speed to "slowest" and i havent had the problem since. Apparently the default is as fast as i was used to clicking and so when it upgraded every time i clicked i would unknowingly activate the voice.. so far this has solved my problem. I also used the rest finger to open setting and am aware that there might be a setting in touch accommodations that might also help too (all under accessibility settings) yes its a hack

It is solved from OP's perspective, OP's problem was that he pushed the home button to unlock and it automatically goes to either voice command or Siri. To disable both you simply need to go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Home Button then in the "Press and Hold to Speak" tab you simply click either Siri, Voice Control or Off. Turning it of will disable press+hold completely. Then when you are done you can simply disable Siri then Voice control in their settings menu.

The problem is, that there is no such tab as Chainspell suggests to be used - at least not on iPhone 6 running one of IOS 10.0 -> 10.0.2.

May I ask what IOS and phone you are using?

Using an iPhone 7 Plus iOS Version 10.2 Beta (build:14C5062e).

I downloaded the currently available version (10.1.1) and notice that the tab is not yet in it.

Conclusion: Apple is working on this problem with a fix in IOS 10.2

As I'm not a brave IOS tester I remain waiting for it being official instead of taking the beta route.

Thank you Chainspell for your effort and for finding the future fix.

Come on already, Apple. Fix this! It's freaking ridiculous.

I have the same problem! It happends thousand time a day

The fix will come in IOS 10.2.

Meanwhile use Daniels's hack:

"I've tried all of the solutions listed here. They did not work. The best solution for me is this:

-- Go to Settings/Accessibility/Home Button and turn on "Rest Finger to Open"

-- Now you do not depress the home button to unlock ... you just rest your finger on the home button. And since you do -not depress the home button, the Voice Control never gets a chance to bug you.

This is a hack. Not a solution. A real solution would mean that my iphone would work repeatedly as purchased when depressing the "home button" ..."

Personally what I do when driving (see msgs above) is making a call to a non-existing numbers just before starting the car thus eliminating the iPhone from doing it.... also a hack while waiting for 10.2 which I understand will be here withing this year.

You can also apply for the Beta Program and download the beta profile, then your iOS will automatically update to 10.2. Afterward if you don't like to continue beta testing you can remove the profile and then download the official candidate 10.2 when it comes out. So far I don't see anything wrong with 10.2 works fine for me. Honestly I only did it so I can use Portrait mode for my 7 Plus.

Settings > Siri > disabled and choice "Vioce Dial Only" language to Turkish