LuKreme: This war has been fought elsewhere... but I enjoy piling on! :-)
On the iPad, at least, muting "incidental sound" muted almost nothing, and so made it difficult for me to diagnose why sounds were behaving so erratically. Keyboard clicks were silent, but alarms and some (but not all) game sounds would play. On the other hand, movies would play in the Videos app, but sound would cut in and out (this has to be a bug). Plus, because of the weird bug I alluded to before, muting was not responding to the Mute switch. So, I might be in favor of "muting incidental sounds," except that it, in fact, did not mute anything but made my iPad unpredictable. Not fun! I think Apple made a few incorrect choices in which sounds were mutable and which were not. Your turn. :-) Best wishes, Clint On May 30, 2012, at 12:17 PM, LuKreme wrote: > Clinton MacDonald spake on Wednesday 30-May-2012@11:02:06 >> since Mute only mutes sounds selectively (why does Apple think this is a >> good idea?) > > The mute switch mutes INCIDENTAL sound. It does not mute any sound you > specifically request via a direct action (like music, video sound, and > alarms). > > This is the proper behavior because otherwise the mute switch would be pretty > useless, and I would not be able to use my iphone as an alarm clock. > > -- > Evil is a little man afraid for his job. _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
