Why does iPhone keeps turning Voice Control on?

Why does iphone keep turning voice control on when i've turned it off? Happens frequently.




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iPhone 15 Plus, iOS 18

Posted on Mar 16, 2025 10:50 AM

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Mar 19, 2025 09:52 PM in response to WuFong

I mean there’s a few ways. Siri could turn it on I’m sure, you could accidentally turn it on with Vocal Sortcuts, if you have it set up. (Settings > Accessibility > Vocal Shortcuts. Triple clicking the side button to turn it on would be intentional so that’s off the list.


I’m not sure if you could accidentally turn it on with Shortcuts or not. I haven’t fiddled with them yet.


Could eye tracking turn it on somehow? I don’t know I haven’t fiddled with that either.


Just try turning it off in Settings for now, and let us know if the issue persists.

Mar 20, 2025 08:25 PM in response to H1290

I haven’t gotten around to setting up Vocal Shortcuts yet, so that can’t be it. AHA! Three side clicks DOES turn it on and off—didn’t realize that was a thing. I must have done that inadvertently each time it happened (how I don’t know yet, but it’s obviously happened more than once). Where is that feature controlled? Now that I know what’s doing it, I can avoid it, but it would be nice to know.


And thank you for your help!

Mar 20, 2025 09:28 PM in response to WuFong

WuFong wrote:

I haven’t gotten around to setting up Vocal Shortcuts yet, so that can’t be it. AHA! Three side clicks DOES turn it on and off—didn’t realize that was a thing. I must have done that inadvertently each time it happened (how I don’t know yet, but it’s obviously happened more than once). Where is that feature controlled? Now that I know what’s doing it, I can avoid it, but it would be nice to know.

And thank you for your help!


You’re right! That feature is located at: Settings > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut.


Now scroll down, and deselect “Voice Control”.



Thanks for sharing the solution!

Mar 19, 2025 09:49 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

Hm. Is there some way one can inadvertently switch it on without going into Settings? The visible sign that it’s on is a green symbol up in the top right corner of the phone (not the little orange dot that comes on in notch). The aggravating sign that it’s come on is that while you are trying to text someone in a public place, your text gets overrun by transcriptions of everything everyone around you is saying...

Mar 19, 2025 09:54 PM in response to WuFong

WuFong wrote:

Hm. Is there some way one can inadvertently switch it on without going into Settings? The visible sign that it’s on is a green symbol up in the top right corner of the phone (not the little orange dot that comes on in notch). The aggravating sign that it’s come on is that while you are trying to text someone in a public place, your text gets overrun by transcriptions of everything everyone around you is saying...


Yeah. That will all go way once you turn it off in Settings.

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