Hey --
So I've Googled and can't find anyone who has had a similar problem.
Earlier today, I answered a phone call, and as soon as it was done, told Siri to remind me to do something on Monday.
Siri promptly went berserk. Let me see if I can describe this accurately.
Siri is narrating everything that happens on the touch-screen, but the touch-screen is not doing what it's supposed to be doing. Every time I touch anything on screen, a little dotted selection-area box comes up around the item, and Siri narrates what I've touched. But I can't interact with it the way that it's supposed to.
For instance, with several taps I can manage to get the slide-bar to slide to get me to the passcode screen -- but I cannot enter a passcode. If I touch the numbers, Siri will narrate them -- "Three-two-three-two" -- but they do not enter in the passcode space. If I try touching the passcode spaces first, she says "Empty password field. Four values required. Secure for text field. Please enter."
Siri will respond to my voice but doesn't seem to know anything or do anything. She's also speaking twice as fast as normal, and asks me to double-tap everything.
I've done the hard reset on the phone, that does nothing, the problem persists.
I'm trying to avoid restoring the phone software, because since I can't enter my passcode iTunes won't let me back up my data, and I spent all day getting my contacts in order. If that's what has to be done, then so be it, but I'm hoping someone will have an idea of what's going on and how I can fix it.
Any ideas?
So I've Googled and can't find anyone who has had a similar problem.
Earlier today, I answered a phone call, and as soon as it was done, told Siri to remind me to do something on Monday.
Siri promptly went berserk. Let me see if I can describe this accurately.
Siri is narrating everything that happens on the touch-screen, but the touch-screen is not doing what it's supposed to be doing. Every time I touch anything on screen, a little dotted selection-area box comes up around the item, and Siri narrates what I've touched. But I can't interact with it the way that it's supposed to.
For instance, with several taps I can manage to get the slide-bar to slide to get me to the passcode screen -- but I cannot enter a passcode. If I touch the numbers, Siri will narrate them -- "Three-two-three-two" -- but they do not enter in the passcode space. If I try touching the passcode spaces first, she says "Empty password field. Four values required. Secure for text field. Please enter."
Siri will respond to my voice but doesn't seem to know anything or do anything. She's also speaking twice as fast as normal, and asks me to double-tap everything.
I've done the hard reset on the phone, that does nothing, the problem persists.
I'm trying to avoid restoring the phone software, because since I can't enter my passcode iTunes won't let me back up my data, and I spent all day getting my contacts in order. If that's what has to be done, then so be it, but I'm hoping someone will have an idea of what's going on and how I can fix it.
Any ideas?
At least I can back up now so won't hurt, but will try to fix it another way.
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