Turn off voice control iOS 10

Greetings, ncfrobleg.
From your post, I believe you want to turn off Siri on your iPhone 6. I'll be glad to show you where that setting is.
For iOS 10, you tap Settings > Siri and tap the top button. If you'd rather not be able to use Siri on your Lock Screen, you can turn it off there as well.
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Hi,

I agree with ncfrogleg.

In my case Siri is turned off, but I get Voice control every time when I want to unlock.

How to turn it off ?

Thanks

If you turn off Siri, you turn on Voice Control. At this time, there's no way around that. I'd suggest turning Siri back on then disabling it on the lock screen. Settings>Siri>Access on Lock Screen>Off.

So you see Meg, it's not just me, and I'm not shouting, just using CAPS for emphasis. You assume and you patronise and you question why users wouldn't want to use Siri. In all these things you completely miss the point. Forums are for opinions and it's obvious what people think of this latest foul up from Apple.

Not quite as bad as the Maps debacle but damaging nonetheless. And you're wrong. Apple do monitor and read this forum and many others, looking for trends in reported issues, and particularly following major releases. It seems you still have quite a lot to learn.

This forum is not for opinions. This forum is a user to user technical support forum. Everyone here (with the exception of the Hosts and the Community Specialists who are clearly identified) is a user just like you, and a volunteer. You probably need to familiarize yourself with the TOU of this forum, but this little snippet should help:

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And sorry, but the very fact that you are using CAPs for anything at all is still the equivalent of yelling.

Do you have Touch ID? If so, then you might want to consider going to Settings>General>Accessibility>Home Button, and turn on Rest Finger to Open. Then you only have to rest your Touch ID finger on the Home Button - you don't have to push it at all.

GB

No, this is not Apple Support. This is the Apple Support Community, which means it is users volunteering their time to try to help fellow users. Not sure what your point is in your last sentence.

GB

Gail, if you read the thread you'll see that the accessibility rest finger to open advice has already been offered *. It doesn't help because it has been negated by the design decision to make you also press the home button to unlock. We'll agree to disagree on the use of CAPS. It's not easy to use italics when replying on a phone - in fact the italics button in the rich text editor on Firefox isn't working either.

I'm also confused by not being allowed to have an opinion on a technical forum. If you remove all opinion, you simply create a question and answer list. Perhaps if that's what you want, it should be rebranded as such. I'm not convinced it's in any way constructive to ban people's opinions.

I've already provided feedback to Apple on this specific issue as it's a problem they have unnecessarily introduced (in my opinion) and could very easily be resolved by allowing you to turn both voice control features off completely.

* It was offered on one of the replies you have since removed

When the phone is on silent it still gives the loud double beep when this annoying voice control activation triggers without being wanted. Terrible design and apparently there is no way to fix it properly? What is the point of silent mode if its not silent? It is not really a surprise critical comments (which are not rude) about this problem are rounded on and deleted.

I have found a solution anyway, jailbreaking. That will allow me to actually switch off this voice control activation. At least then I will be allowed access to settings like an adult which Apple choose to deny me.

Before, with the latest updates, when I'd lift my iPhone se the lock screen display would come up (no buttons pushed yet), I'd rest my finger on the home button, unlocking it (the touch ID worked), but then I'd then get a message that said, "Press home to open". That's when I would actually have to press the home button .. Irritating.

But then I took the advice offered here, "Settings>General>Accessibility>Home Button, turn on Rest Finger to Open (default for this is off)", I turned it on.

Now when I raise my iPhone, I see the lock screen display, I rest my finger on the the home button and, even though I momentarily see "Press home to open", my iPhone does indeed open and i get full access to all my iPhone stuff.

Pretty much the same with my iPad Mini 4. As soon as I open the cover I see the lock screen along and then see the message "Press home to unlock". But now, having already done the Accessibility>Home button thing, all I have to do is rest my finger on the Home button and I get full access to all my iPad stuff.

Forgot to mention .. There's now, on that Accessibility>Home button page, a Click Speed adjustment option that allows one to select "Default", "Slow", or "Slowest". Being a rather old and slow guy, I've selected "Slow". Now, when I do press the Home button (for whatever reason) I no longer get Voice Control along with its irritating beeps unless I hold that button down for a reasonably long time. That wasn't the case before. Before, when I'd press the Home button for whatever reason, I'd usually have to deal with one of the voice irritants. That's not the case anymore. Thanks Apple!

sfax2011 wrote:

Gail, if you read the thread you'll see that the accessibility rest finger to open advice has already been offered *. It doesn't help because it has been negated by the design decision to make you also press the home button to unlock. You do not have to press the Home key to

This is incorrect. I have the Rest Finger to Open set on my iPhone, and all I have to do to unlock the device is to turn it on and leave my thumb on the Home key. I don't have to press or do anything else. When I turn it on, at the top of the Lock Screen there is a padlock in the middle. When I rest my touch id finger on the Home key, it immediately unlocks and opens the device.

sfax2011 wrote:

I'm also confused by not being allowed to have an opinion on a technical forum. If you remove all opinion, you simply create a question and answer list. Perhaps if that's what you want, it should be rebranded as such. I'm not convinced it's in any way constructive to ban people's opinions.

You would have to take that up with the Moderators. We don't make the rules. I simply provided an excerpt from the TOU for the forum for you. We are all required to follow those Terms.

GB

Yeah, good idea. You have now voided the warranty on your device. Apple won't touch it, and you won't be able to get support from these forums either.

This is not the way to go if you want to continue to get any official support from Apple.

GB

I Do not want to trade voice control for Seri

I Want to turn voice control OFF! I want to

delete voice control from my phone. Why

can't this be done?

Because this is how iOS 10 works. If you do not turn Siri on, then when you hold down the Home Key, Voice Control will respond. As has been stated several times, if you want to tell Apple what you'd like to see instead, do so here: Apple - Feedback

Cheers,

GB