Our guide continues below with additional discussion about how to turn Alexa off on iPhone for voice purchasing. While this feature can be very useful, it could be a problem if you have children or others in your home that might not be mindful of the cost of the items they are purchasing.
How to Disable Voice Purchasing for Alexa (Guide with Pictures)
The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10.3.3. You can turn this feature back on at any time. There is another voice control setting on your iPhone, which you can turn off by following the steps in this article.
Step 2: Touch the menu icon at the top-left corner of the screen.
Step 3: Select the Settings option near the bottom of the menu.
Step 4: Scroll down and choose the Voice Purchasing option.
Step 5: Tap the button to the right of Purchase by voice to turn it off.
Now that you know how to turn Alexa off on iPhone so that people can’t use the voice purchasing, look through these settings some more to see if there are more options you want to change or features that you want to start using. Alexa can answer questions, tell you jokes, tell you information about your account, and use voice control to do things like turn off lights or open the garage. If you have more than one of the same device in your Alexa app, it can be difficult to determine which device is which. Find out how to rename devices in the Alexa app and it make it a little easier to identify the Alexa products in your home.
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