Activate Sound Recognition
Tells your device to start listening for any sounds you’ve chosen.
Pause Sound Recognition
Pauses the Sound Recognition feature (rather than fully disabling it).
Shortcut Information
This shortcut is designed for times when you don’t want your device alerting you to sounds it can recognize, but you don’t want to disable the feature entirely in settings.
(Apple uses the language Pause instead of Stop, since that would imply turning it off entirely, not just pausing it for now until you want to use it next.)
Turning Sound Recognition “on” also requires disabling Hey Siri, however I find it useful enough and use Siri on my Apple Watch or HomePod, so I’m rarely in a situation where Hey Siri would even work on my phone.
(Apple uses the language Pause instead of Stop, since that would imply turning it off entirely, not just pausing it for now until you want to use it next.)
Turning Sound Recognition “on” also requires disabling Hey Siri, however I find it useful enough and use Siri on my Apple Watch or HomePod, so I’m rarely in a situation where Hey Siri would even work on my phone.
Category
Complexity
Interactivity
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Pause%20Sound%20Recognition
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Pause%20Sound%20Recognition
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Pause Sound Recognition”
end tell
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