Accessibility Feature Reading Private Messages Aloud – How to Disable?

[Ccfbs]

Hi everyone,

I’m running into an issue where a system-wide accessibility feature (like Spoken Notifications or a text-to-speech setting, etc.) seems to be overriding individual app settings. (TalkBack is already off, so it's not that).

It’s reading my private messages aloud and even announcing actions like “uploading photo.”

Does anyone know where and in what settings this might be coming from—Google settings, Android Auto, driving app, etc.? I’d really appreciate guidance on how to turn this off so apps stop reading all my messages and activities aloud!

Thanks in advance!

[nullandvoid]

Are you sure you are not running a routine to read messages aloud? If you've been running a routine for a long time, it's easy to forget it's running.

[Ccfbs · Accepted solution]

Yes, that's what it was! I have no idea how routine got created but I deleted it and my phone quit reading my messages. Thank you for your help!

[nullandvoid]

Glad I could help, but it would have been nice for you to mark my response instead of your own as the solution.  

Routines run quietly in the background.  It could be that one day you were playing around with routines and created one to see how it works and then forgot to either delete it or deactivate it and just forgot all about it.  FYI, if you create a routine that you want to use only occasionally or in specific circumstances, you can disable the routine instead of deleting it so you can enable when and if you want to use it again without having to recreate it.