I Phone Upgrade- Caution

[trader1]

I just upgraded my I phone to the latest operating system - 17.2, I believe

There is a new feature in Message ( indicated by a little red bar in the message box which allows you to dictate a message ..

Very dangerous imo, as it can pick up a conversation and text to someone if you are not careful

Does anyone know how to disable this

TIA

 

[mrwarpo]

Are there any 3rd party apps or maybe is voice control turned on?

I just did the 17.2 dev beta update and have the same behavior as before-
I can use text to speech to answer a message but have to click the microphone
icon in the keyboard to start the voice capture.

It shows a blue microphone in this mode when the mic is hot and capturing.

 

[trader1]

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Are there any 3rd party apps or maybe is voice control turned on?

I just did the 17.2 dev beta update and have the same behavior as before-
I can use text to speech to answer a message but have to click the microphone
icon in the keyboard to start the voice capture.

It shows a blue microphone in this mode when the mic is hot and capturing.

Yes- How can we disable this ?

 

[mrwarpo]

This is controlled by voice dictation in the keyboard under settings/general.

You can disable dictation which will remove the microphone from the keyboard.

YouTube has a quick video that walks thru the steps:

 

[trader1]

I phone automatically upgraded to version 18 or so- I noticed a new icon entitled passwords - Upon further review and digging a little deeper into its capabilities I noticed it stored websites and passwords to UG and other related sites which I have not saved or visited in a long time.

Very easily deletable

A heads up to those whose phones can be used by others

 

[pokler]

I phone automatically upgraded to version 18 or so- I noticed a new icon entitled passwords - Upon further review and digging a little deeper into its capabilities I noticed it stored websites and passwords to UG and other related sites which I have not saved or visited in a long time.

Very easily deletable

A heads up to those whose phones can be used by others

You just saved about 10 marriages.

 

[mrwarpo]

It can get hard to keep track of - but I try to stay on Android as much as possible
for my burner phones. And on a clean Google account that is used nowhere else.

If a provider wants Facetime to validate - I keep an Iphone on a separate ICloud
account and phone number from the phone where I Facetime / Imessage anybody else.

 

[carmine1957]

I phone automatically upgraded to version 18 or so- I noticed a new icon entitled passwords - Upon further review and digging a little deeper into its capabilities I noticed it stored websites and passwords to UG and other related sites which I have not saved or visited in a long time.

Very easily deletable

A heads up to those whose phones can be used by others

FYI- I also saw that prior notes also disappeared. Have to dig into folders in order to retrieve them especially if your phone is not backed up in iCloud . My iCloud is full as probably a lot of others as no-one wants to pay for the extra storage.

 

[mrwarpo]

Not to get too tin-foil hatty but another thing to watch out for
is GPS location tracking.

So say you are organized and keep all your stuff on a burner phone that
needs to be there but also happen to have your work/personal phone with you.

Your main phone may have GPS location services - even Google maps
keeps track of where you are unless you turn it off.

So your SO/Boss/Corporate HR may have access to where your main phone
has been. Most people don't get down to this level but will start looking
if given a reason.

So if you are supposed to be at a client meeting in Manhattan but somehow end up
in Flushing where you have no customers this may raise some flags.

You can turn GPS on/off but this is hard to manage, turn the phone off, or leave your main phone
somewhere else but it all depends on how far you want to go.