Voice typing saves your time and when you feel tired of typing on the virtual keyboard, you can use the voice typing feature. But now, iPhone users have an issue with this microphone (i.e) the audio microphone icon is missing from the keyboard.
Actually, this icon appears on the left corner of the keyboard, but after the new update, users couldn’t able to find that icon. It’s playing hide and seek from us. Let’s find it together.
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Solution 1: Enable Siri
Most of the time this microphone icon is missing on the keyboard because Siri is not enabled on your iPhone. So Enable Siri and check whether the problem is solved or not.
Go to Settings and tap on General
In that, you can see the Siri option. Just give it a click.
Enable Siri by toggling on.
Solution 2: Enable Dictation
Dictation is the option that will help you to convert your voice into text. So, first of all, you have to Enable that Dictation option to enable the voice typing feature. For that,
On your iPhone, Go to Settings and tap on General
Scroll down the screen and tap on the Keyboard option
And Enable dictation & Enable speech-to-text input.
Solution 3: Restart the Application
Sometimes Microphone icon will be grayed out or missing only in particular apps. Ex: Mic icon is available in notes, mail, and everywhere except in the Messages app. Restarting that particular app might bring the microphone icon back.
Close the app: Double-tap the iPhone Home screen. It will bring the app. Then swipe the app icon upward off the screen. It will close the app.
Then press the app icon again to open the app.
Solution 4: Restart the iPhone
Restarting iPhone might solve this issue. because it will surely rectify the common problems that happen in the iPhone. So try this one.
For iPhone with Home button:
Press and hold the iPhone “Power button” for 5 seconds.
There appears the slider, drag the slider to the right and then press the home button again until you see the Apple logo.
That’s it.
For iPhone X or later models:
Press and hold the Volume Up and Down button once and then press the Side button.
There appears a slider, Drag the slider to the right.
And then press the Side button for 30 seconds until you see the Apple logo.
That’s it.
Solution 5: Reset All Settings
When you do Reset All Settings, it will reset all the passwords. So make sure to keep it in memory.
Go to Settings and tap on General
Scroll down the screen and click the Reset option
You can see the Reset All Settings. Just tap on that.
That’s it.
Final Verdict:
These are the simple and effective solutions to solve your problem. If you know any other solutions other than this you can share them via comments. If you found this article helpful, share it with your friends and keep supporting iPhonetopics.com
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If you have more than 2 Keyboards installed (eg. English, Emoji, Google) then the microphone icon can get replaced for lack of room. Setting your installed keyboard count back to 2 will resolve for this issue.
Settings>General>Keyboard>Keyboards – Swipe Left to delete the keyboard of choice.
Anomaly Note: In this situation, with 3 keyboards enabled, the Microphone Icon only gets replaced when texting other iPhones. The Microphone Icon will still be available if texting an Android device. Go figure.
This happened to me on iOS 10.3.3 after adding Restrictions because my kids were temporarily using it. I'd disabled the Restrictions immediately after getting the phone back from my kids (3 & 5 year old.). Unfortunately the microphone was gone from the keyboard.
This is what worked for me:
Go to Settings -> General -> Restrictions. Enable Restrictions and slide "Siri & Dictation" OFF. Close out of settings, go back in and re-enable "Siri & Dictation" and then check your Message app for a microphone. After verifying the microphone was back on the keyboard in Messages, I then disabled "Restrictions."
This happened to me on iOS 10.3.3 as well after doing my Restrictions presentation in the Rockville Centre School District.
This is what worked for me:
Go to Settings -> General -> Restrictions. Enable Restrictions and slide "Siri & Dictation" OFF. Close out of settings, go back in and re-enable "Siri & Dictation". Check your text messages to see if the mic is back. Then go back and disable "Restrictions."
What Joe did worked for me also
Go to Settings -> General -> Restrictions. Enable Restrictions and slide "Siri & Dictation" OFF. Close out of settings, go back in and re-enable "Siri & Dictation" and then check your Message app for a microphone. After verifying the microphone was back on the keyboard in Messages, I then disabled "Restrictions
@Joe – Thank you so much, Joe!!! I have been trying to get this to work for weeks. In a similar situation, I have a 3 year old that I let use my phone after enabling restrictions.
This worked!
The joe fix worked for my husbands phone! Yay!! Thx Joe!
This is what worked for me:
Go to Settings -> General -> Restrictions. Enable Restrictions and slide "Siri & Dictation" OFF. Close out of settings, go back in and re-enable "Siri & Dictation" and then check your Message app for a microphone. After verifying the microphone was back on the keyboard in Messages, I then disabled "Restrictions."
Thanks! Solution 2 worked for me.
me neither 🙁
I do not have Enable Dictation under keyboard…
If you have more than 2 Keyboards installed (eg. English, Emoji, Google) then the microphone icon can get replaced for lack of room. Setting your installed keyboard count back to 2 will resolve for this issue.
Settings>General>Keyboard>Keyboards – Swipe Left to delete the keyboard of choice.
Anomaly Note: In this situation, with 3 keyboards enabled, the Microphone Icon only gets replaced when texting other iPhones. The Microphone Icon will still be available if texting an Android device. Go figure.
thanks Neil, 1/2 hour of looking and that was the answer. I never even installed a new keyboard, but one day the mic was gone!
None of these worked for me. The only one not tried was to reset settings and for whatever reason that scares me.
This happened to me on iOS 10.3.3 after adding Restrictions because my kids were temporarily using it. I'd disabled the Restrictions immediately after getting the phone back from my kids (3 & 5 year old.). Unfortunately the microphone was gone from the keyboard.
This is what worked for me:
Go to Settings -> General -> Restrictions. Enable Restrictions and slide "Siri & Dictation" OFF. Close out of settings, go back in and re-enable "Siri & Dictation" and then check your Message app for a microphone. After verifying the microphone was back on the keyboard in Messages, I then disabled "Restrictions."
My solution was to delete the Google keyboard.
Hey Joe thanks a lot! That works perfect. I’ve been trying to fix this problem for a few months.
This happened to me on iOS 10.3.3 as well after doing my Restrictions presentation in the Rockville Centre School District.
This is what worked for me:
Go to Settings -> General -> Restrictions. Enable Restrictions and slide "Siri & Dictation" OFF. Close out of settings, go back in and re-enable "Siri & Dictation". Check your text messages to see if the mic is back. Then go back and disable "Restrictions."
Thanks Joe! It worked with my wife's new iphone 8. She just noticed one day the mic wasn't there. Thanks again!
What Joe did worked for me also
Go to Settings -> General -> Restrictions. Enable Restrictions and slide "Siri & Dictation" OFF. Close out of settings, go back in and re-enable "Siri & Dictation" and then check your Message app for a microphone. After verifying the microphone was back on the keyboard in Messages, I then disabled "Restrictions
@joe THANK YOU! This worked for me!
@ Joe – perfect!!
Thanks Joe, I've been trying to get my mic icon back for months, this finally worked!
@Joe – Thank you so much, Joe!!! I have been trying to get this to work for weeks. In a similar situation, I have a 3 year old that I let use my phone after enabling restrictions.
This worked!
@Joe – I have been trying to find a solution for this for months. Thanks for your help!
@Joe., great sleuthing work. That did it for me as well.
Someone should post this issue/situation on the Apple forums.
Way to go Joe, worked!!
Thank you Joe! This worked.
Thank you so much Joe. I've been searching this for ages. It worked. Thanks a lot.
Settings > Accessibility > Siri > Type to Siri.
Thank you, Joe! Once I disabled restrictions, my microphone magically reappeared!
The joe fix worked for my husbands phone! Yay!! Thx Joe!
This is what worked for me:
Go to Settings -> General -> Restrictions. Enable Restrictions and slide "Siri & Dictation" OFF. Close out of settings, go back in and re-enable "Siri & Dictation" and then check your Message app for a microphone. After verifying the microphone was back on the keyboard in Messages, I then disabled "Restrictions."
Thank you NICK – the exact same thing happened when I used the restrictions for my kiddos!