Siri appears to have been activated on my iPhone 4 (not iphone 4S)!!
Hi there, I was hoping someone may be able to shed some light on this...
This morning my 4 year old son decided he was going to have a crack at breaking my 4 digit passcode lock so that he could play angry birds whilst I was having a shower! As a result, I found my iphone 4 (iOS 5) in a state that had become impossible to get into - he had clearly been pressing as many buttons as possible over and over. IIRC the passcode was not set to wipe the phone (thankfully!), but simply to keep asking for passcodes (probably delaying longer and longer each time).
The phone appeared to be in a 'negative screen' state, which I put down to the fact that I have the accessibility function (three clicks of the home button) enabled and he had selected the 'reverse display' option. More interestingly, the display was very unresponsive and I couldnt enter in my passcode. I eventually worked out what was going on...
Every time I touch the screen, the item that is touched is 'highlighted' by a fine box being put around the item - in exactly the same way that buttons on a desktop machine get selected when you tab through them. I am unable to actually select an item until the 'highlight' is around the item. Once it is highlighted, I can select the item, but only by 'double tapping' on the selected item. This applies to EVERYTHING - app selection, keyboard strokes, even clicking on the menu bar items such as location services. Weird eh, and a real PITA!? I cannot scroll down any screens as there are no buttons to do so and the swipe actions have been disabled (except the unlock screen one). I have (eventually) entered my passcode and turned off the reverse display.
I was finding that there was a significant delay between highlighting and selecting as just described. I then realised why when I plugged my headphones in (Phone had been on mute up until that point). Every time something on the screen was highlighted/selected, a polite gentleman was reading out what had been selected. As I dont think there is such an accessibilty option on iOS5 for an iphone 4, I can only hypothesise that somehow part of the SIRI functionality has been activated in someway??!! It certainly sounds like the same voice from the Apple Siri ads.
Whilst very interesting, this make the phone unusable. Ive tried hard resets with no luck (it starts up in the same 'mode') and whilst I could probably restore the phone I was hoping someone could explain a) whats going on and b) whether there is some way to sort it out on the phone.
Many thanks!
Rich.
Hi
I have a iPhone 4S this is not siri it is actally something to help those who have some sort of disability by reading the screen you can disable this by going to general then go to the bottom to accessability
Hope this helps you
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