Next press the microphone icon as seen on the first image. If you are using your iPhone in a multilingual fashion, make sure to pick the right keyboard locale for the language you’re going to be dictating. Note: Dictation is always related to the currently selected keyboard language. Now tap “Keyboard” and scroll down to the bottom and activate the toggle next to “Enable Dictation”.
To enable dictation, go to “Settings” and “General”.
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Learn how to enable offline dictation here. Note: You can also use offline dicatation if you have an iPhone 6 or more recent model.
If you lack the microphone icon on your keyboard (bottom left), either the app you are currently using does not support dictation for the field you are typing into, or you’ve completely disabled it in your iOS settings. To use dictation on iPhone, there has to be a microphone icon on your keybard. Enable dictation on iPhone Settings → General → Keyboard → activate “Enable Dictation” Apple’s iOS works extremely well when it comes to recognizing human speech and converting it to text. You already know Siri, but did you know that you can use Voice Dictation on iPhone in pretty much any text entry situation? Messaging, taking notes, naming to-do items, writing emails, filling out forms, all of these tasks and more can be accomplished by simply talking into your iPhone’s microphone and letting it do the work for you. 3 How to delete words when using iPhone dictation.