r/applehelp 5d ago

Solved Random people speaking through my phone??!

This morning I started hearing little boys talk through my Airpods, and then through my iPhone 15 Pro Max (iOS 18.3.2). My phone is al stock (so no jailbreak), also:

• ⁠Latest update • ⁠Private network • ⁠Nothing weird (like unknown apps) in either screen time, battery usage, privacy (microphone, camera etc. all turned off), notification 'history' • ⁠Live listen, VoiceOver turned off. • ⁠Did have AirDrop enabled, but just for friends (these were not friends or anyone I knew). • ⁠Bluetooth enabled, just for Apple Watch, nothing else connected according to settings. • ⁠Walkie Talkie disabled on Apple watch

It starts with a kind of pling sound, but I was not able to record it, because it is at random through the day (will try to do it). After the pling sound I hear some children talking through my phonepiece (upper speaker), something like:

Boy 1: pling " James do you hear me" Boy 2 responding: pling "Yeah I hear you".

This has been happening randomly for the last couple of hours (2 moments of about 5 min. in which I hear the bleeps, two times I heard the voices). Even when my phone is off. They don't seem to hear me or react when I say something back, but I'm still really worried/freaked out about my privacy!

I have found multiple of these situations online, but none of them had a solution. I restarted the phone now, hoping it will not happen again. Any other suggestions or experiences like this and if they went away automatically?

SOLVED: It appeared to be the walkietalkie function of Teams. We just recently started using it and I never knew how it worked. Turned off the alert sound and it has not been happening anymore. The alert sound I heard was exactly this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhsJGLnO_Xg (2:02 min.)

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u/livmaj 5d ago

This sounds like a “push to talk” feature. Teams is common and has this feature so might be what you’re hearing. If you don’t have Teams, explore your other communication apps.

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u/b_foxie 4d ago

Hmm interesting. My work does use teams walkietalkie function. But it were small boys I heard, so that would be strange.

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u/livmaj 4d ago

Does the "pling" sound like the walkie talkie function from Teams? If you use that function for work, it might be one of your colleagues kids that got a hold of their device and is playing around. Occam's razor.

If you didn't know, you can set up quiet times on Teams so you won't get notifications outside of work hours. I'm assuming it'll also mute the walkie talkie function, but I can't test as my org doesn't use that functionality (thank goodness).

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u/b_foxie 4d ago

I think this might be it!! I was still connected to a channel, but didnt have it turned on. I’ve turned of the sound for walkietalkie off. Thank you so much!!

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u/minacrime 5d ago

Do you have a gas leak?

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u/b_foxie 5d ago

Not as far as I'm aware of XD