How do I turn off the microphone in iMessage?

Yes, you are right, it doesn’t show up. Others say you have to turn Siri completely off. Ive Already sent several unintended audio messages.

This doesn’t seem to have been ‘beta’d’ enough.

Sending an unintended audio message is too easy of a mistake to make.

TheJobDr wrote:

Not solved

It is the original poster who marks things solved.

If you mean the microphone that allows you to send a voice message in iMessage, to the best of my knowledge, you still can't turn that off. So, there is no "solution".

why is the microphone even being used if you're not tapping the microphone button in Messages?

Not solved

Arterial32 wrote:

Because it makes a sound and the. All of a sudden I have a voice message recorded. It shows it on the screen.

I've certainly heard of people hitting it accidentally. However, it doesn't make any noise when it activates. Does this happen when you were using Messages and then put the phone down without either locking the screen or going back to the Home screen? Or does it happen at other times? Do you see evidence of a voice recording in a message bubble?

Settings → Privacy → Microphone

Can you provide screenshot?

How to take a screenshot on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT200289

don't tap the microphone to send a message.

Just tap the middle of the message field, type your message, then tap the send message (blue arrow pointing up)

To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to disable that feature.

How do you know it turns on?