Long press headphone button for google voice search

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For using my phone in that car, I've been long pressing the button on my earphones to activate google voice search. For some reason now everytime i do that it says "to do a Google voice search please unlock your phone". How can i get back to having my wired headphones work even in a locked screen?

Don't want to use ok google since it has a huge battery drain

I uninstalled it back to the original version and now when i do the long press i get a notification where i can allow wired headsets to work during lock. Not sure how to find this in the settings