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Does any one know what this is?

Newtons Apple

Newtons Apple

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My VP's new iPhone 6S has something funny going on when he sends a text message. His screen shows a grey box in the area where your text message should be when typing it. This grey box with 0:00 in it actaully hides the text he is typing and is frustrating!

Anyone know what this is and why it is there. He is on 9.1 on a new 6S

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Looks like a voice message which is empty (introduced in iOS 8). However, I presume it's a bug as it should only appear for iMessages and not green SMSs.

If you restart the phone it'll probably fix itself.
 
cambookpro said:
Looks like a voice message which is empty (introduced in iOS 8). However, I presume it's a bug as it should only appear for iMessages and not green SMSs.

If you restart the phone it'll probably fix itself.
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They have restarted their phone and it goes away for a while and then returns soon after. He can do multiple texts and then all of a sudden the grey box shows up and hides his new typed text.
 
Newtons Apple said:
They have restarted their phone and it goes away for a while and then returns soon after.
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It's probably a software bug, but if they have time they could try a restore and see if that sorts it. Not much else you can do unfortunately.

Edit: Saw that they are on the 9.1 beta. It's probably to do with that.
 
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cambookpro said:
Looks like a voice message which is empty (introduced in iOS 8). However, I presume it's a bug as it should only appear for iMessages and not green SMSs.

If you restart the phone it'll probably fix itself.
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Except voice recording isn't available with SMS messages, only iMessages, I believe, so this is particularly odd.
 
I believe he is hitting the voice message part where it says send. Mine kept doing it the other day (guess accidentally hitting) so I just kept my hands away
 
npolly0212 said:
I believe he is hitting the voice message part where it says send. Mine kept doing it the other day (guess accidentally hitting) so I just kept my hands away
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I have tried hitting the mic icon and it does not leave the box there it records or goes away when you type a message.

I do agree it look like the voice message box with zero seconds of recording but I can not get my 6S+ to duplicate this.
 
cambookpro said:
That's slightly more strange. You could try a restore and see if that helps. Have they performed a hard reset (hold home and power buttons until phone restarts)?
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He has restarted multiple times and what is strange is it will go away after a reboot but may come back an hour or several hours later.
 
I have the same problem. It's annoying. Currently running a iPhone 6 Plus on iOS 9.0.

Clearing the messaging app from the active programs list usually fixes it.
 
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