I’m having the same issue but I mostly listen to audiobooks so it’s infuriating. At least with music, you just lose part of a song. With an audiobook, EMS whole sections of the story. Commenting mostly so I can stay updated in case any solutions.
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I’m having the same issue but I mostly listen to audiobooks so it’s infuriating. At least with music, you just lose part of a song. With an audiobook, EMS whole sections of the story. Commenting mostly so I can stay updated in case any solutions.
I kept searching from time to time since posting the thread, and never found a solution to this.
While I experience the issue less often (not sure why), it still happens (ruined a listening yesterday).
@Heidikh: not listening audiobooks on the iPhone, but I imagine well how frustrating it must be if this comes in while you are listening...
While I experience the issue less often (not sure why), it still happens (ruined a listening yesterday).
@Heidikh: not listening audiobooks on the iPhone, but I imagine well how frustrating it must be if this comes in while you are listening...
We are in 2018 and I also and still having this kind of problem. Could someone being Steve back?
Nothing that I know of.
And just a couple of weeks ago a friend just asked me how to get rid of this, as I am supposedly "computer savvy". Well, I sadly just pointed her at this more than one year old thread...
I can’t believe a device WITHOUT a headphone jack still has this problem. Indeed, I mainly use my shure Bluetooth headphone nowadays and never used that headphone jack with a headphone with mic, this is still unacceptable.
[doublepost=1534502333][/doublepost]When i use my JBL flip4 bluetooth speaker with iphone 7 riding my bike, it only stops playing and pops up Voice Control when the road as lots of bumps and shakes.. it seems like some kind of auto protection ( of the speakers) that interrupts the connection, so iphone OS tells to activate Voice Control.. its soooo annoying .. grrrr
[doublepost=1535734168][/doublepost]I had the same issue. It was the microphone on my ear buds. Fortunately it had a on off button. When I turned it off it stopped completely.
Just go to settings then general then accessibility then home button then click on siri and thats it
Ive had the problen too and now fixed
That doesn’t work. If you read all the threads you will understand that the problem remains with siry and voive control both off
It's insane. I just bought new headphones thinking it was the previous ones. Same issue. Blows my mind how Apple can ignore certain issues for years. iPhones are not cheap - we should not have to do "work arounds" that still don't always work.
Yeah, I’ve been having the same problem. I can’t listen to music when I’m out walking or anywhere really where I require headphones. Extremely irritating to say the least. Seems ridiculous Voice Control can’t be turned off for music or that there isn’t a fix for this. This is a major flaw imo and these heathens at Apple should have been onto it yesterday!!
While being able to disable Voice Control should be an option, like any other, it seems like the underlying issue in cases like this is something else in that the Voice Control shouldn't be getting activated on its own like that.
I have additional information about this issue:
I kept the oldest allowable OS on my Iphone SE for years, but accidentally updated it recently. I listen to a lot of music using a JVC headphone set with a mic and "clicker" interface. Until the OS update, I could click once and play what I was listening to last, or at least play randomly from my itunes music. After the OS update, if I click once to pause the music, then wait some tens of seconds, a subsequent click opens the "voice control" feature instead of restarting the music. This is especially frustrating when I am engaged in some activity and my phone decides that I would like to facetime a contact whom I haven't spoken with in over a decade.
No amount of feature de-activation has abated this flaw, and in my experience it adds to the compounding evidence of apple's perpetual, monotonic decline from a meticulously crafted beacon of human-machine interface elegance to a despotic band of ignorant, out-of-touch designers who have inherited an unearned amount of public trust. Maybe that's what happens when you think hardware design elegance is the same thing as HMI design elegance, Jony Ive.
I kept the oldest allowable OS on my Iphone SE for years, but accidentally updated it recently. I listen to a lot of music using a JVC headphone set with a mic and "clicker" interface. Until the OS update, I could click once and play what I was listening to last, or at least play randomly from my itunes music. After the OS update, if I click once to pause the music, then wait some tens of seconds, a subsequent click opens the "voice control" feature instead of restarting the music. This is especially frustrating when I am engaged in some activity and my phone decides that I would like to facetime a contact whom I haven't spoken with in over a decade.
No amount of feature de-activation has abated this flaw, and in my experience it adds to the compounding evidence of apple's perpetual, monotonic decline from a meticulously crafted beacon of human-machine interface elegance to a despotic band of ignorant, out-of-touch designers who have inherited an unearned amount of public trust. Maybe that's what happens when you think hardware design elegance is the same thing as HMI design elegance, Jony Ive.
Have you figured out how to disable the voice control feature ? I have tried multiple headphone all have microphones in them but it comes on all the time. I have tried JVC, Samsung and the original iPhone ones that cane with phone. Can not get voice control to not go away. Every time I’m listening to Pandora it randomly comes on Anand it’s annoying. Why can’t Apple let you disable this feature? Can anyone help please.
Nope, I never found a way. Some earphones do it and some others do not.
I guess Apple believe they have already solved the problem: they just removed the jack connector, so they have no need to worry about it now. Sad!
i tried General->Accessibility->HomeButton->VoiceControl
"VoiceControl" (help)= Classic voice Control will respond when you press & hold the Home button"
my old school able ear buds have a microphone
its the gym where i have the issue. see if this fixed the issue for me
"VoiceControl" (help)= Classic voice Control will respond when you press & hold the Home button"
my old school able ear buds have a microphone
its the gym where i have the issue. see if this fixed the issue for me
Do people suffering this have ‘shake to undo’ turned on? Sounds like vigorous movement is triggering something.
I have used all my iPhones to listen to music whilst yomping around, so this definitely isn’t a universal issue.
I have ‘shake to undo’ off on my devices however (because it isn’t an Etch-a-sketch
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I have used all my iPhones to listen to music whilst yomping around, so this definitely isn’t a universal issue.
I have ‘shake to undo’ off on my devices however (because it isn’t an Etch-a-sketch
)[doublepost=1556904545][/doublepost]Awesome idea...I am now on my 20th set of headphones.
The mic isn’t the problem with me cuz I don’t even have to touch the microphone or move for this problem to happen
Seems like disabling it should stop it from getting it activated, even if it's doing it on its own somehow.
i notice if there are few people at the gym the iPhone will not lock up as fast.
when this happens to me i know i am NOT going to rush and replace my ears with authentic Beats Studio Wireless for $549.95 in blue with Satin Silver.