Justin Bieber is officially fed up with the placement of the dictation button in iMessage.
The singer is so irritated by accidentally tapping it after sending a text that he hopped on Instagram Thursday to air out his frustration — even joking that he’d put every Apple employee in a “rear-naked choke hold” if it happens again.
“If I hit this dictation button after sending a text and it beeps and stops my music one more time, I’m gonna find everyone at apple and put them in ‘a rear naked choke hold,’” he wrote.
Bieber added, “Even if I turn off dictation I somehow hit the voice note thing. The send button should not have multiple functions in the same spot.”
One commenter chimed in, “I remember you talking about this ages ago lol you crack me up,” pointing out that Bieber has been complaining about this for a while.
He actually ranted about the same issue on his Instagram Stories last year, writing: “Honestly I’m sick of when I’m listening to music I send a text message and it stops the music for a split second. I know all of you have experienced this! All I’m asking is please do an update @apple so that that little dictation button is removed so I can listen to music and text and not have issues.”
Apple has rolled out several updates since then, including iOS 26, but none have directly tackled the dictation button placement.
