Pop star Justin Bieber recently expressed his displeasure over a specification of Apple on social media. This is a small but annoying iPhone feature. While posting on Instagram and X, he said that the dictation (voice typing) button of iPhone has become his biggest problem. Most people would mistake it and get upset, but Bieber didn’t take it as a joke or a mild complaint.
He wrote, ‘If I press this dictation button again after sending a text and it beeps again and stops my music, I will find every Apple employee and put them in rear naked choke.’ Let us tell you that Real Naked Choked is a position which we usually see in WWE. And in this the person’s throat is held from behind.
Told what should not happen…
Along with this, he also told that even turning off dictation does not solve the problem because sometimes they press the voice note option by mistake. Sharing a screenshot of the iMessage screen, he said, ‘The Send button should not have multiple functions at one place.’
Bieber’s outburst went viral on social media and many users admitted that they too often have the problem of pressing the wrong button. OpenAI’s head of product design, Ian Silber, jokingly invited Bieber to his weekly design meetings.
This post comes at a challenging time for Apple. This week Apple announced changes to several senior executives. On Monday, the company announced the retirement of John Giannandrea, senior vice president (Machine Learning and AI), in 2026. Two days later, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Apple’s longtime human interface design VP, Alan Dye, was joining Meta. Apart from this, Apple’s environment and policy chief Lisa Jackson and the company’s general counsel Kate Adams are also going to retire next year.
Apple has always been known for its tight control over design and user experience. In such a situation, Bieber’s criticism may prove to be a bit inconvenient for the company. Apple’s reputation in the tech world is strong, but its slow progress in AI is putting it into challenges in catching up with rivals like OpenAI, Google and Meta.
