Random voice from my phone in middle of the night!?

Last night, In the middle of the night, I was awoken to the sound of a man’s voice coming out of my phone?!?!


My voiceover is OFF and I wasn’t able to turn it off in the control the audio from the control center?!


I woke my husband and he couldn’t work it out either so we closed all down my apps and one of them made it stop but annoyingly, we didn’t see which app it was. I just can’t understand why if something was playing why it wouldn’t have been playing the whole time?


Also the nature of the audio was just odd? It wasn’t like a reel or video etc, just a one sided conversation of a half asleep man who sounded like he was asking whoever he was talking to for help with a crossword saying a 5 letter word beginning with D etc etc…?


Has anyone else ever had this?!

iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Nov 26, 2025 12:16 AM

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Nov 26, 2025 11:49 AM in response to Breckland_33

Breckland_33 wrote:

Last night, In the middle of the night, I was awoken to the sound of a man’s voice coming out of my phone?!?!

My voiceover is OFF and I wasn’t able to turn it off in the control the audio from the control center?!

I woke my husband and he couldn’t work it out either so we closed all down my apps and one of them made it stop but annoyingly, we didn’t see which app it was. I just can’t understand why if something was playing why it wouldn’t have been playing the whole time?

Also the nature of the audio was just odd? It wasn’t like a reel or video etc, just a one sided conversation of a half asleep man who sounded like he was asking whoever he was talking to for help with a crossword saying a 5 letter word beginning with D etc etc…?

Has anyone else ever had this?!

Pranksters have been known to set up an automation to play sounds.

Look in the Shortcuts app in the automation tab

Random voice from my phone in middle of the night!?

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