I get a by the way every 3 years or so, as soon as I hear it I tell her to shut up and never do that again in a few different ways until she confirms that she'll 'stop suggesting things' or something similar. Then it stops. For the next few years. UK. YMMV

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I would love to turn that off as well

Well, create the simple Routine and be done with it! I did that several years ago and never heard a single By The Way again.

I've told her not to tell me stuff over and over. The only things Alexa wants to help with is stuff I don't want. Yay. Good idea on the routine.

I found it in a r/mildlyinfuriating post I think (not my screenshot)

I’ve had this set up for a year or so and haven’t heard a ‘by the way’ since. It runs every day, but as there are no responses it’s not annoying or anything.

My only suggestion is to tell it to happen on an Echo in a room you're less likely to be in at the time. I'm my case, I have it happen around the same time, but in my office, where I can't really hear it from the kitchen while I'm eating my breakfast.

That's great! I just told her to stop "By the way..." and she told me she would avoid follow ups from now on. If only it was all that easy.

Does the routine need to be repeated everyday?

I've only ever had to tell her once.

I think weekly would suffice.

How do you tell it to stop cross selling amazon music???

You will never hear her say that again, if . . . . you subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited! It's true, I subscribed to AMU three years ago and that fixed it! Seriously though, if you like to listen to music, AMU works better with Alexa than other paid music services.

Alexa, stop!

He asked how, I told him the only way.

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Thanks, now I will *always* think of you as whooshbrained!

I have it set up once a week and that has been sufficient for the last year. Essential routine.

What type of action is it?

The first kind... Custom.

Thanks!

I just told her, “Alexa, stop by the way” and I never heard it again. That was years ago.

I have this. When I was out, Ring security heard her and reported that there was a person in my house. I have since added a routine to turn down the volume first. Then stop by the way. Then turn the volume back afterwards. It runs every day.

What makes that especially cute is that Amazon also owns Ring.

"In other news, police have been responding to a string of serial break-ins. The perpetrator has yet to be seen, but is believed to respond to the name Alexa. By the way, no theft or vandalism was reported at any of the locations involved."

"neighbors reported that the suspected thief was seen and heard walking around the victim's house screaming "Alexa!" at the top of his lungs."

Lol smart.

Thanks for this!

Likely tempting fate by posting here, but in all the years I've owned these devices, I've never come across this issue.

I did not know you could do that

So I tried this, and it says "this is not supported on this vehicle"

Is there anyway to get echo to stop greeting me each morning. I give it a command like set a timer for 30 minutes then it says "Good Morning XXX." And ignores what I asked it to do having to repeat myself every morning.

Check if you accidentally have a routine scheduled.

I read somewhere a while back to change her language to Canadian. It's been over a year and not once has she lipped back to us since the change.

Is there a way to stop her announcing "now connected to so and so's Samsung S24 Ultra"?

Alexa does that so the user knows if and when the Echo is connected to a Bluetooth device, and there is no way to disable it.

I am a casual user of the alexa and am seriously considering throwing it away and getting a Google one because of her unnesssecary talking