Text box keeps popping up during calls on iPhone 5s
Text box goes away after restarting but comes back after a few days. How can this be disabled?
iPhone 5s
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Text box goes away after restarting but comes back after a few days. How can this be disabled?
iPhone 5s
Hi maverick1941,
It sounds like you are experiencing an issue with a text box appearing while you are on a phone call. We can take a look at this with you.
To start, are you able to provide us with a few more details about the text box you are seeing? Does it look like a text box for your messages or for something else?
Do you know if there are any updates available for your iPhone? If there are, we'd recommend backing up your iPhone and updating to see if that helps. The following articles will explain how to back up and check for updates:
We look forward to hearing back from you with more details.
Cheers!
Hi maverick1941,
Thanks for following up with us and sharing these details.
Is what you're seeing a box that looks like it's magnified text? If so, this could be the accessibility feature Zoom. To turn off Zoom, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Zoom, then tap to turn Zoom off.
If it's not a magnified text box and something else, are you able to take a photo of the text box on her iPhone? We ask because we'd like to get a better idea of what is happening exactly.
Let us know and we will go from there.
Take care.
It is a text box on top of a keyboard and it covers up about 1/3 of the screen when it occurs. It is on my 96 year old mom’s phone who is locked down in a nursing home. This keeps happening very frequently and is very frustrating. Message box will pop up on an incoming call and prevent her from answering the call because the answer buttons are blocked. Phone is running the latest and I guess the last update available for a 5s. I tried to duplicate what is happening on my 5se and cannot. I have absolutely no idea how and why this happens.
Text box keeps popping up during calls on iPhone 5s