My iPhone is creeping me out!

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Help! I have no clue how this thing works, but here's what happened:

I came home and set my iPhone 7 down on a table. It was off in the sense it had been left on the home screen, which goes off after about 10 seconds, and therefore it was automatically logged out. I made a call from my landline to someone, and as I talked I glanced over at the cell phone and the screen had come on and it was typing everything I said!
I was so freaked out I grabbed it and shut it off, without having the presence of mind to try to figure out what was going on.

I have had the phone about a year and have not knowingly downloaded any apps on it, but lots of files.

WTF?
 

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My Android has the voice to text feature as well. I never use it and it toggles on and off. I'd just as soon have a flip phone myself. Don't need all the junk the Andriod has.
 

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And Y'all think "A I" is no big deal !

AI doesn't have to be evil to destroy humanity – if AI has a goal and humanity just happens in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it, no hard feelings." – Elon Musk
 

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My Android has the voice to text feature as well. I never use it and it toggles on and off. I'd just as soon have a flip phone myself. Don't need all the junk the Andriod has.
You know Flip I used to think like you, I held out till the bitter end with my trusty old flip phone (no pun intended) until I had different people come visit and watched them call out and receive calls while walking around the yard. My old flip phones would drop calls all the time (had 3 or 4 of them) inside the camp even though we payed 4 hundred or so for a booster. After seeing other people with their iPhones I bit the bullet and got an iPhone 6 even though it cost me more per month. All I can say is what a difference. Like you I have no need for 90% of what the phone is capable of but I will say it is way ahead of the crappy Samsung phones we had before this one. Our other phone runs through a Magic Jack which I have running through the cell phone so that when someone calls the MJ number it will also ring on the cell. The MJ is great as long as you have decent internet, for $35 a year plus $10 for your phone# you can talk anywhere in North America with no long distance charge no matter how long you talk. It's great for us because it would have cost me $1800.00 to get a land line in plus a monthly bill and also I have friends across Canada as well as in the US so we can talk all day if we want with no extra charge. Ok, I'll stop rambling on now , sorry for being so long winded. One more thing, I am in no way affiliated with either of the 2 mentioned above.;)
 

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And Y'all think "A I" is no big deal !

AI doesn't have to be evil to destroy humanity – if AI has a goal and humanity just happens in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it, no hard feelings." – Elon Musk
Lol, Skeets I can always count on you to confuse me my friend, being a little shy of brain cells and lets not get started talking about our past :eek: I had to look that one up.;)
 

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My only affiliation is with my wife...lol

You are most likely right on the phones. I pay 30 bucks a month, unlimited talk and text (4G) with Boost Mobile (Sprint). My issue is, when I go hunting out west, there is no cell service at all so I also have a SAT phone which is expensive to own and expensive for air time (you pay by the minute) but it works anywhere because it works off communication satellites directly (sort of like a GPS). I only use it for emergencies. Great to have though.

What did we do before cell phones anyway? I cannot remember...lol:eek:
 

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And Y'all think "A I" is no big deal !

AI doesn't have to be evil to destroy humanity – if AI has a goal and humanity just happens in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it, no hard feelings." – Elon Musk

A1 is good steak sauce, use it all the time....:D
 

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What we did before cell phones.. we enjoyed life a lot more
 

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Here's another "creeper" for ya...

Go into your settings, and choose "privacy", "location services", "system services", "significant locations"..... (need your p/w or touch id)

What you are now looking at is everywhere you've ever been, when, and for how long. :eek:

Do yourself a favor, and clear the history (button at bottom of screen), then turn the feature off, back at the top. Or do yourself a bigger favor and get rid of anything Apple all together.

One more reason to hate Cr@pple....
 
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Thanks bearbait, I went to the suggested location in settings on my phone, and nothing is turned on. It is kind of the reverse problem, speech to text, so I'll lookaround for that.
Check Settings, General, Keyboard, scroll down and see if Enable Dictation is on.
 

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Only thing I can think of is the person I was talking to was named Sarah, and maybe the phone thought I said Hey Siri, But dictation feature for that is not on either. Phone had been in my coat pocket, so less susceptible to butt dialing than when in my jeans. ???
 

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Check Settings, General, Keyboard, scroll down and see if Enable Dictation is on.
Nope, not on. I'll break down and update software, was waiting till they got bugs out of latest ones.
 

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Sheep - check Settings/Siri & Search.
Mine is default to allow when locked. Never had a similar situation, but maybe worth shutting a couple off?
Trust me, I’m WAY far from an expert.....[emoji15]


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When I had my iPhone 5, I found the settings to shut siri down. I would talk to someone on my work phone, then siri would start yapping. It was something about the voice activation if I remember correctly. I gave up on Apple and went back to android when Apple quit supporting my phone.

Sheep farmer, they had similar instances with one of those Google or Windows devices for home automation. I remember hearing something about it either on the news or radio shortly after they came out, where a person was having a conversation in there home and got a call from a family friend. The conversation was being streamed live on the internet.
 

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RCW and Daren, ok so I found the shutoff for Siri, and it was on for Screen Locked, so I turned that off, so far that is the only thing that was on when the screen was blank.

I am wondering what it was doing with what it was typing? Streaming it to the internet or Apple crossed my mind :mad:
 

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My old flip phones would drop calls all the time (had 3 or 4 of them) inside the camp even though we payed 4 hundred or so for a booster. After seeing other people with their iPhones I bit the bullet and got an iPhone 6 even though it cost me more per month.
The two are not mutually exclusive. I have a Kyocera DuraXE. All the advantages of a mil-spec flip, but it is LTE, 4G, etc. etc. so it works were the old CDMA phone didn't.

Tough little bugger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F2oe1flbb0