Turn off Siri in iOS 11-How to Disable Siri on iPhone in iOS 11

Updated Sep 07,2017 | by Bennie

Siri is one of the most popular and useful services on iPhone, and it helps you access features and complete tasks. But sometimes, you just do not want and use it. In this article, we’ll show you how to turn off Siri on iPhone in iOS 11.

Firstly, we run through a quick introduction of Siri.

Siri is an intelligent personal assistant available on Apple’s iOS, mac OS, watch OS and tv OS systems. Through a natural language UI and voice queries, Siri can answer users’ questions and perform actions. Since Siri’s work is based on users’ language usages, preferences and searches, it can complete tasks individually but accurately.

Siri is originally released on iPhone 4s in 2011, and now it supports multiple popular languages and is available on almost all Apple’s operating system platforms.

Sometimes, you may feel that Siri just brings you inconvenience. If it is not commonly used, then we recommend you to disable Siri on iPhone. This time, you decide to disable Siri, the first but main question is how to turn off Siri on iPhone in iOS 11. 

How to Disable Siri in iOS 11

To disable Siri on your iPhone, here are 2 situations:

·         disable Siri access on the Lock Screen only

·         disable Siri completely

1. Disable Siri Access on the Lock Screen Only

By default, you can access Siri without unlocking your iPhone. However, you are able to keep Siri service activated on your iPhone, but close its access on the Lockscreen only. Here are the steps to disable Siri access on the Lockscreen.

·         Go to Settings > Touch ID & Passcode > check the section “ALLOW ACCESS WHEN LOCKED” > toggle Siri off

·         Go to Settings > Siri > toggle “Access When Locked”

Remember, once you disabled Siri access on the Lockscreen, the Voice Dial is disabled automatically.

2. Disable Siri in iOS 11 Completely

If you do not want to use Siri, then you can disable Siri on your iPhone completely. It’s quite simple, check it out.

Go to Settings > scroll down and find Siri > toggle Siri off

Now, you’ve disabled Siri on iPhone completely. Besides, you can also turn on or off “Hey Siri”.

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