Audio recorder in messages turns itself on

Dr_JY posted the fix!!!

Audio message was on and I had no idea!!! I am absolutely outraged! This cost me my job! I put my phone in my pocket and the audio message turned on. I was having a personal/ private conversation with a co-worker.. the whole time it was recording my conversation… then actually sent the conversation to the person. I didn’t even see the audio as it deleted itself from my text messages but not before actually sending it to the person.. the only reason I was aware was when I received an irate text message back stating what was said in the conversation I thought was private.. this was brought to my bosses attention and the result was that I and the other person I was speaking to were fired. Tell me how Apple plans on fixing that?

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Thank you for the info. That was one of the most annoying things Apple has done lately to "fix" something which wasn't broken!

Dr_JY You rock!! I have dug into this issue awhile back and did not find any solution. The steps you give seem to have worked. The language around the setting doesn't even make sense why you would need to raise the phone to your head to reply to an audio message you could keep it at arms length. I bet some people have gotten into some trouble after sending a message and having a recording kick off afterwards and then accidentally sending that.

Upvoted!!!

These steps fix this annoyance!!

Settings > Messages > under “Audio Messages” near the bottom, deactivate “Raise to Listen”

Omg the top ranking reply that says turn off raise to listen really worked!

My phone kept doing this when I would click somebody's contact info inside the text thread. As soon as I clicked done it would start recording so annoying but this fixed it thank u!

My hero!! Thank you!! I’ve been so scared that I was going to say something, have it accidentally sent and have it create some huge issue with somebody! 😆

Dr_Jy you saved me!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

What OS are you using? I am using 17.7.1 and that option is there.

What do you mean it's not available on the 13?? First of all settings are not varied between phone iterations - they're different between OS iterations. Secondly the setting is in fact available on the 13 - regardless of the iOS your 13 is running. Just do what Dr_JY said: Settings > Apps > Messages > Raise to Listen.

Thanks for this Dr_JY… to be honest, I really wonder if Apple have hundreds of software developers who have nothing better to do than spend thousands of hours trying to think of ‘clever’ things to do (like this one) that no one wants or if anything, people find positively annoying. 😳

As I said before, it’s ridiculous: I really wonder if Apple have hundreds of software developers who have nothing better to do than spend thousands of hours trying to think of ‘clever’ things to do (like this one) that no one wants or if anything, people find positively annoying - or in your case, worse!

This isn’t available on the 13, is there another way to disable it? I’m ready to get a Samsung, otherwise. My 8 worked perfectly, I wish I still had it!

Yes it is. Just do what Dr_JY said: Setting > Apps > Messages > Raise to Listen.

I have tried suggested remedies to get rid of my phone adding text to messages or anything else that I might be typing! As in signing in to Apple. Help