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Enable/Show Dictation in ios

  • January 19, 2017
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We have a group of kids that really need dictation enabled on the ipad keyboard. Anyone have a suggestion to show the option under keyboard to enable that?

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  • New Contributor
  • February 28, 2017

Somewhere somehow, when I blocked Siri, this nuked the microphone across all the apps. I'd love a solution for this as well without enabling Siri on 3,000 iPads at once in an elementary school setting. Help anyone?


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  • New Contributor
  • March 7, 2017

Experiencing similar issue with dictation.


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  • Contributor
  • April 3, 2017

If there's something else going on, maybe a little more clarification could help? EDIT: just found out - Jamf 9.98 and iOS 10.3 update will allow this to work. So as long as you have both updated, having Siri disabled in your configuration profile will no longer also disable dictation.


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  • Valued Contributor
  • September 29, 2017

Something changed in iOS 11 - the microphone has disappeared from the keyboard when we have Siri disabled and Allow dictation on in our restrictions.


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  • New Contributor
  • October 24, 2017

Has anyone found a solution to this yet?


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  • New Contributor
  • October 25, 2017

Dictation wouldn't work in Apple Clips and when I enabled Siri, it worked.


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  • Valued Contributor
  • May 18, 2018

Is this still an issue? We have Siri disabled but dictation supposedly enabled, but the microphone icon isn't showing up on the keyboard.


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  • New Contributor
  • August 9, 2023

Hello all! I finally found the solution. Go into your child’s settings - screen time - content & privacy restrictions - allowed apps - Siri & dictation (make sure the toggle is switched to green). Once you switch it on, restart your child’s iPad and the dictation option should now be enabled. It took my forever to figure it out but I finally got it working! Hope this helps everyone.