Voice Control on iPhone 3G

Does anyone here know why the voice control feature is exclusive to the iPhone 3G[s]? From the looks of it from the keynote, it's a pure software feature, and has nothing to do with the hardware at all. Actually, I'm not quite sure how it could possibly be linked to the hardware because you have to use the same home button to activate it. Hopefully iPhone 3G users will see this function come out in a future 3.x software update...

Much as I'd like the newest, bestest, etc., I don't see getting the S unless my 3G breaks. All that really interests me is the Voice Command feature- my RAZR had that, and I loved it. The VC apps available, no offense to anyone, really don't work well. I use my car's Hands-Free BT to make/receive calls, and have inputted-in the numbers I use frequently so I can voice dial (no help when walking around, though). I have a big old Nikon D300 for pictures and a little bitty Canon HF11 for HD video. I use a phone for phone functions and to carry pictures and cards (instead of my wallet, which has gotten much slimmer from using the Photos app and the CardStar app). Mail & Safari are nice when I need them, some of the other apps are handy, it's just a nice little tool. Looking forward to 3.0 for some upgrades in interface and the extras they are touting- though my car already has GPS. I'll wait for next year's model (due out June 19th, 2010, everybody already getting ready? ) I do wonder what kind of battery longevity can be expected in the S. No one's really talking about that yet, just how crummy AT&T is to not give the things away. My guess is that there will be lots of posts within a week of rollout complaining about having to recharge nightly.

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How do you exit voice control on iPhone 4, with iOS7.1.1?

capsjenwalker wrote:
How do I disable Voice Control all together on a 4?
Sorry, you can't. There is no setting to completely disable such.

How do you disable voice control on iphone 4

Voice Control doesnt seem to work to create a text message on iphone 4 like it does on the 4S. How do I disable Voice Control all together on a 4?

capsjenwalker wrote:
How do I disable Voice Control all together on a 4?
Sorry, you can't. There is no setting to completely disable such.

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hello
my home button is not working well. so its stuck on voice control... i would like to turn it off completely, siri and the phone voice control

Hello there, Yelis2591.
The following Knowledge Base article offers up some great steps for troubleshooting your home button:
iPhone: Hardware troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2802
Particularly:
The Home button is slow to respond
If the Home button is slow to respond when exiting one application, try another application.
If the issue exists only in certain applications, try removing and reinstalling those applications. Get further assistance in installing and troubleshooting applications.
If the issue continues, Try turning iPhone off and then on again. If the iPhone will not restart, try resetting it.
If the issue is still happening, try to restore the iPhone.
Seek service is the issue is still occurring.
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

Voice Control on Iphone 4

I am loving my Iphone 4 but one thing is really bugging me.
I have had both the first gen iphone and 3GS. I always used the 3gs through my venturi mini bluetooth car kit and it worked great. To let my hubby know I was near his work to pick him up every night I would use the voice control of the 3GS and it always dialled perfectly.
But since getting the iphone 4 it is very hit and miss. It keeps saying the contact is not found and only dials after trying about 4 times. It also doesn't seem as good when you ask it to play "artist". Sometimes I speak and it doesn't do anything at all.
Does anyone else use the voice control/dial of the iphone 4 and find it ok?

http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?threadID=&q=voice+control&objID=f1378&d ateRange=last90days&userID=&numResults=15&rankBy=10001
More or less. Lots of posts where they have problems with Voice Control in i4. I've had problems and foregoed using the voice control all together. It's missing a great deal of options for instance in the iPod section.
I can't say "Genius Alt Metal Mix" which is my Genius Mix developed. It goes for "Playing Songs by Far" which is one of them. Nor ask to call Dad very easily if I have variations close to the word Dad.

How do you off voice control on iPhone 4?

Hey, recently my phone has this problem that the voice control kept activating itself when I am using my phone sometimes and even when I was away from it. It automatically calls a random someone from my contacts after activating itself, so it gets very embarrassing when my friends asked why did i called them. Help please

You can't disable voice control. The only setting is to turn off the Voice Dial feature: Settings->General->Passcode Lock->Voice Dial

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I Dropped my phone in the tub, I have an otterbox on it but it didn't do the phone any good :/. I dried it off and the home button started acting up. And now it doesnt work when i hit it. But the Touch ID still works. However randomly voice control will pop up and call random people when i don't even touch it. I tried going into restrictions > Siri and turning it off I turned off voice

Otterbox cases are not waterproof and are not advertised to be so. For that, you need a Lifeproof case or similar.
If you turn off Siri, Voice Control is enabled. The only way to turn off Voice Control is to turn Siri back on. Your phone has been damaged by immersion in liquid and may never work properly again. Sorry.

How do I prevent Iphone 6 voice control from activating

I had the problem on my 4 but I thought it was just old. Now, my Iphone 6 is 2 days old and it is doing the same thing!!!!!!
The voice control activates on it's own for no reason and then impacts music play. The songs are sped up and then skip around as voice control keeps cutting in. I do not have shake to shuffle on and I do not have Siri active. This seems to be a recurring problem since the 3. Can Apple please address it, I am about to return my Iphone 6!!

holy cow, I thought I was cursed until I read your question. My iphone 4 was driving me crazy for its last month activating Voice Contol on its own. I too thought it had just gotten old. I've had my 6 plus for two days and the same thing is now happening!!   That inane blue screen and doorbell noise popping up.   I feel like throwing the phone at the wall.
Seeing you have the same problem is a bit insightful because it suggests that it's not the phone but something else. How else could both of us have identical problems at the same time with four phones?
i am wondering if somehow we have a bugged backup that is causing the problem to propagate itself?   Sometimes my ipad 2 also has music playing issues but no voice control problems. I.e., I can be listening to Pandora and suddenly the music pauses itself.
Another problem I had on my iphone 4 at the end was that it would suddenly pause music as well. Other times it would speed playback up as if I were holding the scrubbing key down. Did you have anything similar?
I wonder if backing the phone up with a version say two months or so ago is worth a shot?

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My Voice Control comes on uncontrollably, rings people without me asking it to and then the phone has what can only be described as a moment! Is my phone faulty or can I sort this manually?

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IPhone 4, Home button not working, stuck in recovery mode and boots straight into voice control.

After trying everything and failing I still cant work out why this is happening.
I cant restore my phone in itunes, just get an error. My phone boots into voice control for no reason and to top it off the home button stopped working along with all these errors. It cant be a hardware issue. I sent it in and got told I had water damage which is impossible as I treated the phone like gold.
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Iphone 4 Voice Control not working Properly after iCloud Contacts sync

Hi All,
I am facing a strange problem. Recently I enabled iCloud settings to sync contacts from my iPhone to iCloud.
It asked me that do I want to merge the contacts from iCloud onto this iPhone. Obviously I clicked yes.
What it did was actually not sync all but around 1/3 of my contact list and erasing the remaining. The other 2/3 of my contact list wasn't on both iCloud or iPhone.
So I decided to restore my iPhone from the backup i took just before enabling iCloud. But I forgot to switch off the iCloud settings for not syncing Contacts.
Although I recovered all my contacts from the backup, my voice control has stopped recognizing my remaining 2/3 of the contact list that did not actually sync.
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I'm getting this too. It's very slow and apparently thinks "Call Sue Newport" sounds like "Call Halfords" or "Call Halyards" and, most surprisingly "Call First Great Western".
I was wearing my Jawbone Bluetooth headset so it's nothing to do with background noise.
I tried the new "What time is it?" command which works but takes about 10-15 seconds to activate.

IPhone-4 Voice Control not working properly

I'm facing trouble with the iphone-4 voice control. Its not correctly recognizing my voice commands. When I ask it to call a specific phone number it never dials the correct number, I have notice that it happens for some specific numbers when asked to dial. Also , songs are also sometime not correctly recognized and a wrong songs/album starts playing. But, when I tried same phone numbers or songs playing command on a Google Powered android phone..it recognizes all voice commands correctly and works perfectly fine. I think apple needs to fix this issue..right now the voice control ***** big time

I'm getting this too. It's very slow and apparently thinks "Call Sue Newport" sounds like "Call Halfords" or "Call Halyards" and, most surprisingly "Call First Great Western".
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After backing up my phone to the new iphone 4S, voice control comes on every time I try to use siri?

After backing up my phone to the new iphone 4S, voice control comes on every time I try to use siri? I have to newest itunes so what should I do? I completley can not use Siri

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Try to deauthorize the computer then authorize it.
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wendyohio_1 wrote:
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Hi - I updated the OS of my iPhone 3GS to iOS4 and everything went well. But ever since I did the update the voice control comes back with strange results when I try to use it. It was working well enough with OS3. Has anybody the same problems and is there a solution?
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I'm experiencing basically the same as teardrop3d. I'm Australian (with voice settings on English (Australian)) and my 3Gs had at least 90% accuracy with both calls and music requests.
On iOS4 I've had a single correct result out of at least 30 attempts at using it.
Requesting "play playlist <name>" will often either start calling a seemingly random person from my phone book (different each time anyway) or sometimes a seemingly random number (I don't know where the number comes from, it's not in my phone book). Sometimes it'll actually offer to play music, usually a specific artist (not a playlist) and occasionally a playlist (but so far never the right one).
Requesting "call <name> <number type>" has worked once correctly, but usually just tries to call a seemingly random number from my phone book (or a number I don't know, not in my phonebook...).
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I've tried talking in different accents to no avail, and didn't get any better results with a different English language setting on the Voice Control (I'm not sure if that's actually listening for different accents or just responding in a different accent?)
This feature which I used to use multiple times a day to avoid having to take my phone out of my pocket while walking/riding is now useless. I continue to test it each day to see if it ever works, or if there are any behaviours that change it (e.g. locked vs unlocked or with music playing/not playing when I press/hold the mic-button, etc) but so far haven't found any workarounds.

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