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[Closed] Phone "Announcing" WhatsApp messages

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My phone (Samsung S10 running Android 11) has just started voice announcing the arrival of my WhatsApp messages. Think it's just WhatsApp but can't be sure. How can I make it stop?
I think it's the Google assistant but I've tried loads of things and can't turn it off.

Any ideas?


 
Posted : 10/10/2021 5:18 pm
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it's probably in the accessibility menu, and you turned something on for folks who have impaired vision.

In the apple eco-system it's called voice -over or spoken content. there's probably something similar in android.


 
Posted : 10/10/2021 5:29 pm
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Must surely be in the whatsapp settings (3 dots top right). Notification settings

(or maybe what he said!)


 
Posted : 10/10/2021 5:30 pm
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Have check the assessibilty settings, doesn't appear to be anything in there. It's driving me mad!


 
Posted : 10/10/2021 5:49 pm
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Watching this because mine does the same!


 
Posted : 10/10/2021 6:15 pm
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Seems to have stopped. I did do an inadvertent reboot when I rang out of battery so hopefully that's the end of it. We'll wait and see...


 
Posted : 10/10/2021 9:01 pm
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Don't want swmbo knowing you've got a WhatsApp message? 🤣


 
Posted : 10/10/2021 9:13 pm
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Ha, most of the messages are from her family group. It's more that it did it at 6:30 this morning. "Two new messages in group, press such and such button to read". I don't need it to actually tell me I have a message, a beep is fine


 
Posted : 10/10/2021 10:59 pm
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Mine was only when I had headphones in, there is a setting deep within Google assistant settings for turning announcements off per app when on headphones.


 
Posted : 11/10/2021 4:37 pm