[kam2958]

Don't know if this has been brought up, apologize if has been

Every once in awhile I go to text and instead of finding Reg text box I find a gray oval shaped box I guess with like a timer inside it and pic if camera on other side

What is that and how do I keep it away

Thanks all

Do

[zerog46]

Can you take a screen shot?


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[Ledsteplin]

This?


That's the iOS 8 feature. It's an audio text. You press the mic to the right of the text bar. Don't press the mic.

[kam2958]

That's it. Drives me nuts.

[kam2958]

Is there a way to make it go away and stay away? Thanks

[Ledsteplin]

Is there a way to make it go away and stay away? Thanks

It won't come up if you don't press the mic to the right.
You can download the SwiftKey keyboard and delete the English keyboard. I did that. I prefer SwiftKey. There's no mic on it.

SwiftKey

[kam2958]

I'll try that. Thank you

[VSTREAM TV]

Hi jam, just go to your settings and under messages, turn off character count .

[VSTREAM TV]

Hi Kam, just go to your settings and under messages, turn off character count .

[Ledsteplin]

Hi Kam, just go to your settings and under messages, turn off character count .

What does that do? It turns off character count. He wanted to turn off the audio text.

[App WhenIs]

Yeah, ive got that too. ive tried everything to remove it but the only thing that works is to delete the entire conversation!! My character count is turned off already. As soon as someones sends me a text, the rounded rectangle with the timer inside it appears and there is no way to get rid of it. If you type text, it just goes behind it and you cant see it. I wish apple would test their stuff before sending it out (

[evanob]

Having same problem where the text window is blocked by a gray box presumably for an audio file. I can't make box go away and I can't see what I am typing. The box is there for all contacts.

[Ledsteplin]

Never hurts to send feedback:
https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html#mn_p

[Ledsteplin]

Try deleting the English keyboard and use a 3rd party keyboard until they update to fix it.
I use SwiftKey as my default keyboard and have deleted the stock keyboard. It still comes up for passwords.

[Selena406]

Yeah, ive got that too. ive tried everything to remove it but the only thing that works is to delete the entire conversation!! My character count is turned off already. As soon as someones sends me a text, the rounded rectangle with the timer inside it appears and there is no way to get rid of it. If you type text, it just goes behind it and you cant see it. I wish apple would test their stuff before sending it out (

Hi! I just figured it out! Yeaaaaa... Try closing some of your open apps on your phone. I did this and that gray bar in the text box disappeared. Hope it works for you too! Good luck.

[69LG360]

Yeah, ive got that too. ive tried everything to remove it but the only thing that works is to delete the entire conversation!! My character count is turned off already. As soon as someones sends me a text, the rounded rectangle with the timer inside it appears and there is no way to get rid of it. If you type text, it just goes behind it and you cant see it. I wish apple would test their stuff before sending it out (

My character count was off, I switched it on & the oval grey thing with 0.00 in it has gone from all conversations.... So far.

[Ledsteplin]

My character count was off, I switched it on & the oval grey thing with 0.00 in it has gone from all conversations.... So far.

That gray thing is the audio text. It's activicated by pressing the mic on the right side. If it comes up for no reason, then it's a bug hopefully Apple will fix soon. If it comes up again, try backing up your cursor. That don't work then swipe the messages app out of multitasking.

[thepresentwife]

Changed keyboard to SwiftKey, Imessages never been on. character count off etc

Deleted all other keyboard and yep, you guessed it the rounded rectangle with the timer inside

[jjjohn6]

Hi! I just figured it out! Yeaaaaa... Try closing some of your open apps on your phone. I did this and that gray bar in the text box disappeared. Hope it works for you too! Good luck.

This solution worked for me. Thank you Selena. I hope Apple can explain what causes this condition to arise. I recently upgraded my 5s phone to iOS9.0.1. Thanks.

[dvsb]

Someone posted on here to turn off all running apps and it worked! That grey box in my texting is gone. Yeah!!!

[dvsb]

Thanks Selena! It worked for me too.

[Peligro911]

Prob a glitch with low memory


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[kam2958]

Mine stopped doing it after a while. Was hoping last upgrade would keep it away. Now it's everyday again. I was just shutting down phone and starting over. You would hope that with all complaints about this it would be fixed permanently

[deslim1]

A work-around for me was to record a msg and then used the backspace key to delete it. It went away.

[Kathleen Mendez]

A work-around for me was to record a msg and then used the backspace key to delete it. It went away.

It's so annoying! I would think they would fix it soon because we shouldn't have to work around their glitch or mistake. I go to my settings and switch a few things off; and then I'd revisit the message; and then go back into settings and switch them on again, and then open messaging back up--but I shouldn't have to go around the world and back-- just to get rid of this annoyance. 😑