WH1000-XM4- speak-to-chat activating, even though it’s disabled.

SJInBristol — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:54:08 GMT

Holding two fingers to the left ear cup does nothing (I don’t hear ‘speak-to-chat deactivated’). I realise that speak-to-chat can be disabled using the Sound Connect app, but that obviously means that I’d need to connect then headphones to my iPad and I don’t want to do that because, when they’re connected to my iPad, they either don’t connect to my MacBook Pro, or they always connect to the iPad first; at the moment, I don’t need to use them with my iPad.

I don’t understand how speak-to-chat has been activated, I haven’t knowingly activated it, because I don’t use it; the fact that it can become activated accidentally is extremely annoying, and something that I would consider a design flaw.

I can’t afford to replace them at the moment but, when I am in a position to do so, I won’t be considering the WH1000-XM6 (or whatever the current model is at the time) if speak-to-chat is still prone to accidental activation.

I’ve just connected them to my iPad, only to find that ‘speak-to-chat’ is DEACTIVATED, so I don’t understand why it’s still activated; if I’m listening to music and I speak or sing, it activates. I don’t understand why the headphones are acting as though it’s activated when it isn’t.

As I’ve said, I can’t afford to replace them right now, and I really,REALLY need headphones, but they’re useless to me if I speak-to-chat is now permanently activated.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why that is - and how I can force the headphones to realise that it’s off…? The headphones are using the latest firmware.

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