Turn Dictation OFF or ON for iPad or iPhone

With the dictation feature on iPhone and iPad, it helps us a lot with dictate text into speech, especially for those old people who don’t read much. But sometimes we just do need it any more, how to turn dictation off or on for iPad or iPhone?

Dictation is a very important feature of transferring our words into texts, or convert our text into speech. So many people are using it, while some other people want to turn it off. So whatever you want to turn dictation off or on for your iPad or iPhone, you can find solutions here. And in this article, we’ll show you more than how to turn dictation off or on for iPad or iPhone.

Turn Dictation Off or On for iPad or iPhone

Now we’ll see how to turn off or turn on dictation on your iPhone and iPad, see below steps.

1 .Go to Setting--General--Keyboard.

2.Then find the option “Enable Dictation”.

3.if the button is with grey color, it means your dictation is off, and if you want to turn it on, just toggle the button. When it’s on, the color for this button will be green.



Fix Dictation not Working Issue

During using of dictation, some people feedback that their dictation now working. What happened? How to fix this issue? Now see below steps and try below steps and try to fix it.

1.Restart your iPhone iPad

first of all, we can restart our iPhone to have a try. Now press your power button and hold on, then it will shows “Swipe to Close Phone”, swipe it and close your phone.

When it’s closed, press your home button and power button together and hold on, until it shows Apple icon on your home screen.

2.Make Sure Dictation is Turned On

Also we should check if our dictation is turned on, otherwise, we couldn’t use it also. Now go to Setting--General--Keyboard, turn on “Enable Dictation” button.

3.Check Internet Connection

The issue may be also caused with network connection, so we should also check network connection issue. You can search something through your Safari to check, or you can disable your network, and reconnect your iPhone iPad with it.

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