Justin Bieber Calls Out iPhone Dictation Button: ‘The Send Button Shouldn’t Have Multiple Functions’

Justin Bieber has nearly reached his boiling point with the placement of the dictation button in iMessage.

Bieber has grown so frustrated about hitting the dictation button after sending a text that he took to Instagram on Thursday to voice his concerns about the matter. The singer has even vowed to put every Apple employee in a “rear-naked choke hold,” if he encounters this situation one more time.

“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.

“Even if I turn off dictation I somehow hit the voice note thing,” Bieber continued. “The send button should not have multiple functions in the same spot.”

As one commenter noted, “I remember you talking about this ages ago lol you crack me up 😂😂”

It appears that Bieber complained about this same issue on his Instagram Stories last year.

“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!” he wrote. “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 released a number of updates, including iOS 26, but none have specifically addressed the placement of the dictation button.