Agree with Tim’s assessment. Audio routing has become, and is continuing to be very complicated. We have all these audio channels available now, and no way to easily distinguish one from another. I have bluetooth hearing aids, and will attest to that ringer blasting into my ears when a call comes in. I have to keep my ringer volume set low and not have the buttons involved, to prevent the overwhelming sound. That means the volume coming from the phone speakers is lower, as well. The only final answer would be that Apple would code all their audio channels so they route through a dedicated mixer either through the control center or give access to app developers. Being able to individually and independently control each audio channel is really the only complete answer to these problems. Just counting on my fingers, I believe there are 4 output channels (phone headset, speakers, headphone jack, and Bluetooth) not all of which are stereo. Then the input sources as Tim wrote. A very complex traffic pattern to control, just as in a recording studio or live performance stage, where there is a sound engineer at the control board, deciding on what goes where. Are you listening, Apple? or do you have your buds muted?
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