Tonight while listening to text-to-speech reading of a book on my phone, it spontaneously called the last # I called, earlier today. The phone's screen was locked when this happened and there was no voice command resembling "OK Google" or any voice command to make a call.
The same thing happened yesterday but fortunately that time the # called was a business and it was closed at the time.
I'm a little freaked out about this happening tonight, it took fumbling with the phone a bit to unlock it and hang up the call after 3 rings. It was locked and in a phone bag I was wearing when this call suddenly launched. I hope I didn't wake the person who was called, it will be quite hard to explain to her how this happened if I did disturb her.
I looked at all the settings of my phone app and can't see anything that would support spontaneous calling through touching or jiggling a locked phone or something like that. I saw someone's recent post elsewhere about a Samsung phone doing something similar to this and their advice to disable "direct dialling"--not a feature I can find on this Google Pixel 3a phone.
The app whose text-to-speech read aloud feature I was using when the calls launched is Moon+ Reader Pro. It's a fairly new-to-me app.
PS, I don't think it's involved, at all, but the audio I was hearing was streaming through my hearing aids, which is enabled by a bluetooth device called a phone clip.
PPS I just found and disabled a Google Assistant setting under Voice Match, Access your Assistant any time that you say "Hey Google" even if you screenis off. I'm hoping this will block what has been happening but as I never said Hey Google or Okay Google (and neither did the book I was listening to say anything like that) I don't think it was involved.
The same thing happened yesterday but fortunately that time the # called was a business and it was closed at the time.
I'm a little freaked out about this happening tonight, it took fumbling with the phone a bit to unlock it and hang up the call after 3 rings. It was locked and in a phone bag I was wearing when this call suddenly launched. I hope I didn't wake the person who was called, it will be quite hard to explain to her how this happened if I did disturb her.
I looked at all the settings of my phone app and can't see anything that would support spontaneous calling through touching or jiggling a locked phone or something like that. I saw someone's recent post elsewhere about a Samsung phone doing something similar to this and their advice to disable "direct dialling"--not a feature I can find on this Google Pixel 3a phone.
The app whose text-to-speech read aloud feature I was using when the calls launched is Moon+ Reader Pro. It's a fairly new-to-me app.
PS, I don't think it's involved, at all, but the audio I was hearing was streaming through my hearing aids, which is enabled by a bluetooth device called a phone clip.
PPS I just found and disabled a Google Assistant setting under Voice Match, Access your Assistant any time that you say "Hey Google" even if you screenis off. I'm hoping this will block what has been happening but as I never said Hey Google or Okay Google (and neither did the book I was listening to say anything like that) I don't think it was involved.
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