RE: Skype, facetime and phone volume
Hi Joanne, Theoretically you should just be able to use the volume buttons to increase or decrease the volume while a call is going on. Having said this, there definitely seem to be a few issues with Voiceover volume and other volume levels in iOS 7. If, for example, I turn down the volume when I am playing an Audible book, Voiceover volume goes down as well even if Voiceover is not even speaking. This should not be happening and I just send a message to Apple Accessibility about that. Hopefully others do as well and this is fixed soon. But you should still be able to lower the volume of a Facetime Audio call or increase the volume of a Skype call while the call is in progress. I actually just checked this by placing a call to the Sound Test service and I was able to increase and decrease the volume while the announcement was speaking with my phone held to my ear and using the volume buttons. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joanne Chua Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 1:12 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Skype, facetime and phone volume Hi all, Just wondering if anyone here knows how to turn up Skype phone calls volume and turn down facetime audio and phone call volume? I theoriticly need to turn voiceover down to 35% to get a decent audio belance between skype and VO on my iPad. On another hand, when i turn my phone volume to the lowest, and facetime audio volume, it is still very loud. Is there a way to control the volume seperetly? I don't able to find such setting anyware on skype setting, or on setting itself. your help is very much appreciate Thanks in advance Joanne Chua The flip side of Inclusion is Exclusion. Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate Send from my iPad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Skype, facetime and phone volume
Hi, I’m not sure I understand. If you turn down the volume while listening to an audible book, does the actual Voiceover volume in the rotor gets turned down? Or does all system volume turn down. If the second, this is standard behavior. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 20, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Joanne, Theoretically you should just be able to use the volume buttons to increase or decrease the volume while a call is going on. Having said this, there definitely seem to be a few issues with Voiceover volume and other volume levels in iOS 7. If, for example, I turn down the volume when I am playing an Audible book, Voiceover volume goes down as well even if Voiceover is not even speaking. This should not be happening and I just send a message to Apple Accessibility about that. Hopefully others do as well and this is fixed soon. But you should still be able to lower the volume of a Facetime Audio call or increase the volume of a Skype call while the call is in progress. I actually just checked this by placing a call to the Sound Test service and I was able to increase and decrease the volume while the announcement was speaking with my phone held to my ear and using the volume buttons. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joanne Chua Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 1:12 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Skype, facetime and phone volume Hi all, Just wondering if anyone here knows how to turn up Skype phone calls volume and turn down facetime audio and phone call volume? I theoriticly need to turn voiceover down to 35% to get a decent audio belance between skype and VO on my iPad. On another hand, when i turn my phone volume to the lowest, and facetime audio volume, it is still very loud. Is there a way to control the volume seperetly? I don't able to find such setting anyware on skype setting, or on setting itself. your help is very much appreciate Thanks in advance Joanne Chua The flip side of Inclusion is Exclusion. Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate Send from my iPad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Skype, facetime and phone volume
Sieghard, I also wrote to Apple concerning the volume problems. They told me they know about the problem but can't give me any idea as to when it will be resolved.Meanwhile They gave me 2 work-arounds that don't work. One was to press the lock button (not the home button) five times and the other was to go into an app such as music and raise the volume to the desired level. That doesn't work either so I wrote back and was told again that they can't tell me when it will be fixed but they are working on it. This time, there were no work-around solutions. I know from experience that, if you really want to do it you can by doing a complete reset of your phone and then make sure you don't lower your volume below the magic 35% level. I found that out when I had to reset for another reason but I'm not willing to do that again. I'll just wait. Meanwhile, I'm using my phone at 35% or lower. Ron Danvers Ron Danvers to that don't Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 9:30 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Skype, facetime and phone volume Hi Joanne, Theoretically you should just be able to use the volume buttons to increase or decrease the volume while a call is going on. Having said this, there definitely seem to be a few issues with Voiceover volume and other volume levels in iOS 7. If, for example, I turn down the volume when I am playing an Audible book, Voiceover volume goes down as well even if Voiceover is not even speaking. This should not be happening and I just send a message to Apple Accessibility about that. Hopefully others do as well and this is fixed soon. But you should still be able to lower the volume of a Facetime Audio call or increase the volume of a Skype call while the call is in progress. I actually just checked this by placing a call to the Sound Test service and I was able to increase and decrease the volume while the announcement was speaking with my phone held to my ear and using the volume buttons. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joanne Chua Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 1:12 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Skype, facetime and phone volume Hi all, Just wondering if anyone here knows how to turn up Skype phone calls volume and turn down facetime audio and phone call volume? I theoriticly need to turn voiceover down to 35% to get a decent audio belance between skype and VO on my iPad. On another hand, when i turn my phone volume to the lowest, and facetime audio volume, it is still very loud. Is there a way to control the volume seperetly? I don't able to find such setting anyware on skype setting, or on setting itself. your help is very much appreciate Thanks in advance Joanne Chua The flip side of Inclusion is Exclusion. Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate Send from my iPad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow
RE: Skype, facetime and phone volume
Ricardo, The point is that if you lower your volume lower than 35% you can't raise it again above that unless you do a full reset on your phone which I did but, I stupidly went below 35% and I would have to reset again and I won't. Ron Danvers Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 10:09 AM To: viphone Subject: Re: Skype, facetime and phone volume Hi, I'm not sure I understand. If you turn down the volume while listening to an audible book, does the actual Voiceover volume in the rotor gets turned down? Or does all system volume turn down. If the second, this is standard behavior. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 20, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Joanne, Theoretically you should just be able to use the volume buttons to increase or decrease the volume while a call is going on. Having said this, there definitely seem to be a few issues with Voiceover volume and other volume levels in iOS 7. If, for example, I turn down the volume when I am playing an Audible book, Voiceover volume goes down as well even if Voiceover is not even speaking. This should not be happening and I just send a message to Apple Accessibility about that. Hopefully others do as well and this is fixed soon. But you should still be able to lower the volume of a Facetime Audio call or increase the volume of a Skype call while the call is in progress. I actually just checked this by placing a call to the Sound Test service and I was able to increase and decrease the volume while the announcement was speaking with my phone held to my ear and using the volume buttons. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joanne Chua Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 1:12 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Skype, facetime and phone volume Hi all, Just wondering if anyone here knows how to turn up Skype phone calls volume and turn down facetime audio and phone call volume? I theoriticly need to turn voiceover down to 35% to get a decent audio belance between skype and VO on my iPad. On another hand, when i turn my phone volume to the lowest, and facetime audio volume, it is still very loud. Is there a way to control the volume seperetly? I don't able to find such setting anyware on skype setting, or on setting itself. your help is very much appreciate Thanks in advance Joanne Chua The flip side of Inclusion is Exclusion. Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate Send from my iPad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You
RE: Skype, facetime and phone volume
Hi Ron, I also can't raise the Voiceover volume above 35% using the volume rotor, but this does not seem to apply to the volume buttons. If you get Voiceover to read continuously and then press the volume up button it goes really loud. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ron Pelletier Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 8:03 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Skype, facetime and phone volume Sieghard, I also wrote to Apple concerning the volume problems. They told me they know about the problem but can't give me any idea as to when it will be resolved.Meanwhile They gave me 2 work-arounds that don't work. One was to press the lock button (not the home button) five times and the other was to go into an app such as music and raise the volume to the desired level. That doesn't work either so I wrote back and was told again that they can't tell me when it will be fixed but they are working on it. This time, there were no work-around solutions. I know from experience that, if you really want to do it you can by doing a complete reset of your phone and then make sure you don't lower your volume below the magic 35% level. I found that out when I had to reset for another reason but I'm not willing to do that again. I'll just wait. Meanwhile, I'm using my phone at 35% or lower. Ron Danvers Ron Danvers to that don't Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 9:30 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Skype, facetime and phone volume Hi Joanne, Theoretically you should just be able to use the volume buttons to increase or decrease the volume while a call is going on. Having said this, there definitely seem to be a few issues with Voiceover volume and other volume levels in iOS 7. If, for example, I turn down the volume when I am playing an Audible book, Voiceover volume goes down as well even if Voiceover is not even speaking. This should not be happening and I just send a message to Apple Accessibility about that. Hopefully others do as well and this is fixed soon. But you should still be able to lower the volume of a Facetime Audio call or increase the volume of a Skype call while the call is in progress. I actually just checked this by placing a call to the Sound Test service and I was able to increase and decrease the volume while the announcement was speaking with my phone held to my ear and using the volume buttons. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joanne Chua Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 1:12 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Skype, facetime and phone volume Hi all, Just wondering if anyone here knows how to turn up Skype phone calls volume and turn down facetime audio and phone call volume? I theoriticly need to turn voiceover down to 35% to get a decent audio belance between skype and VO on my iPad. On another hand, when i turn my phone volume to the lowest, and facetime audio volume, it is still very loud. Is there a way to control the volume seperetly? I don't able to find such setting anyware on skype setting, or on setting itself. your help is very much appreciate Thanks in advance Joanne Chua The flip side of Inclusion is Exclusion. Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate Send from my iPad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop
RE: Skype, facetime and phone volume
Hi Ricardo, Normally it is not standard behavior that Voiceover volume is connected to the volume of music or an audio book that is playing. On my 4S I don't think I had this issue so I think it's less of an iOS 7 issue than a 5S issue. Anyways, consider this: I am playing an Audible book and I have my phone locked and before I locked it Voiceover was set to a comfortable volume. Now when the phone is locked I turn down the book way low. Now I press the home key to unlock the phone and suddenly Voiceover is so quiet that I can barely hear it. Also consider this: I raise volume on the volume rotor all the way to 35% which, as Ron pointed out, is as high as it will go. Now I do a 2-finger swipe up on the home screen to get Voiceover to start reading continuously and I now use the volume down button to lower Voiceover volume so I can just hear it. Now I check the volume rotor by flicking up and it is still at 35%. In the same way I can turn volume on the rotor down to 1% which is as low as it will go, then I get Voiceover to start speaking and I can use the volume up key to make it so loud that it distorts, but the rotor volume is still at 1%. There is something very wrong, it's not a total dealbreaker and you just have to use the volume keys a lot to set your Voiceover volume where you want it since you aren't able to set it independently or use the volume on the rotor to do so. The only place where it's annoying is during a phone call, but that part was never right on my 4S after iOS 5 so it's nothing new except that I hoped on the 5S it was once again possible to balance the volume of a call on speakerphone and Voiceover volume independently using the volume keys to turn call volume down and volume on the rotor to turn Voiceover volume up. I don't know if you have a 5S, but it definitely seems that this is the same for all 5S users and not one of these things which affects only a small percentage of users. Anyhow, I am fairly confident Apple will fix this, they may say they have no estimated time when this will be fixed, but I'm sure they prefer to say that even if they might have it fixed in the next update which I suspect will be out in a few weeks. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 7:09 AM To: viphone Subject: Re: Skype, facetime and phone volume Hi, I'm not sure I understand. If you turn down the volume while listening to an audible book, does the actual Voiceover volume in the rotor gets turned down? Or does all system volume turn down. If the second, this is standard behavior. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 20, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Joanne, Theoretically you should just be able to use the volume buttons to increase or decrease the volume while a call is going on. Having said this, there definitely seem to be a few issues with Voiceover volume and other volume levels in iOS 7. If, for example, I turn down the volume when I am playing an Audible book, Voiceover volume goes down as well even if Voiceover is not even speaking. This should not be happening and I just send a message to Apple Accessibility about that. Hopefully others do as well and this is fixed soon. But you should still be able to lower the volume of a Facetime Audio call or increase the volume of a Skype call while the call is in progress. I actually just checked this by placing a call to the Sound Test service and I was able to increase and decrease the volume while the announcement was speaking with my phone held to my ear and using the volume buttons. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joanne Chua Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 1:12 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Skype, facetime and phone volume Hi all, Just wondering if anyone here knows how to turn up Skype phone calls volume and turn down facetime audio and phone call volume? I theoriticly need to turn voiceover down to 35% to get a decent audio belance between skype and VO on my iPad. On another hand, when i turn my phone volume to the lowest, and facetime audio volume, it is still very loud. Is there a way to control the volume seperetly? I don't able to find such setting anyware on skype setting, or on setting itself. your help is very much appreciate Thanks in advance Joanne Chua The flip side of Inclusion is Exclusion. Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate Send from my iPad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner
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Hi, So your saying, if for example, on your 4S, if you are listening to music and lower the volume, Voiceover volume isn’t lowered at the same time? So then, you would eventually reach a state where your music volume was lowered all the way but, Voiceover volume is still the same? I honestly can’t remember this behavior. At least, not in IOS 6 or IOS 5. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 20, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Ricardo, Normally it is not standard behavior that Voiceover volume is connected to the volume of music or an audio book that is playing. On my 4S I don't think I had this issue so I think it's less of an iOS 7 issue than a 5S issue. Anyways, consider this: I am playing an Audible book and I have my phone locked and before I locked it Voiceover was set to a comfortable volume. Now when the phone is locked I turn down the book way low. Now I press the home key to unlock the phone and suddenly Voiceover is so quiet that I can barely hear it. Also consider this: I raise volume on the volume rotor all the way to 35% which, as Ron pointed out, is as high as it will go. Now I do a 2-finger swipe up on the home screen to get Voiceover to start reading continuously and I now use the volume down button to lower Voiceover volume so I can just hear it. Now I check the volume rotor by flicking up and it is still at 35%. In the same way I can turn volume on the rotor down to 1% which is as low as it will go, then I get Voiceover to start speaking and I can use the volume up key to make it so loud that it distorts, but the rotor volume is still at 1%. There is something very wrong, it's not a total dealbreaker and you just have to use the volume keys a lot to set your Voiceover volume where you want it since you aren't able to set it independently or use the volume on the rotor to do so. The only place where it's annoying is during a phone call, but that part was never right on my 4S after iOS 5 so it's nothing new except that I hoped on the 5S it was once again possible to balance the volume of a call on speakerphone and Voiceover volume independently using the volume keys to turn call volume down and volume on the rotor to turn Voiceover volume up. I don't know if you have a 5S, but it definitely seems that this is the same for all 5S users and not one of these things which affects only a small percentage of users. Anyhow, I am fairly confident Apple will fix this, they may say they have no estimated time when this will be fixed, but I'm sure they prefer to say that even if they might have it fixed in the next update which I suspect will be out in a few weeks. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 7:09 AM To: viphone Subject: Re: Skype, facetime and phone volume Hi, I'm not sure I understand. If you turn down the volume while listening to an audible book, does the actual Voiceover volume in the rotor gets turned down? Or does all system volume turn down. If the second, this is standard behavior. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 20, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Joanne, Theoretically you should just be able to use the volume buttons to increase or decrease the volume while a call is going on. Having said this, there definitely seem to be a few issues with Voiceover volume and other volume levels in iOS 7. If, for example, I turn down the volume when I am playing an Audible book, Voiceover volume goes down as well even if Voiceover is not even speaking. This should not be happening and I just send a message to Apple Accessibility about that. Hopefully others do as well and this is fixed soon. But you should still be able to lower the volume of a Facetime Audio call or increase the volume of a Skype call while the call is in progress. I actually just checked this by placing a call to the Sound Test service and I was able to increase and decrease the volume while the announcement was speaking with my phone held to my ear and using the volume buttons. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joanne Chua Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 1:12 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Skype, facetime and phone volume Hi all, Just wondering if anyone here knows how to turn up Skype phone calls volume and turn down facetime audio and phone call volume? I theoriticly need to turn voiceover down to 35% to get a decent audio belance between skype and VO on my iPad. On another hand, when i turn my phone volume to the lowest, and facetime audio volume, it is still very loud
RE: Skype, facetime and phone volume
Absolutely. Sorry about the one-worder *smile* but there is no other way to say it without repeating everything so at least I made it a one-liner! -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 9:05 AM To: viphone Subject: Re: Skype, facetime and phone volume Hi, So your saying, if for example, on your 4S, if you are listening to music and lower the volume, Voiceover volume isn't lowered at the same time? So then, you would eventually reach a state where your music volume was lowered all the way but, Voiceover volume is still the same? I honestly can't remember this behavior. At least, not in IOS 6 or IOS 5. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 20, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Ricardo, Normally it is not standard behavior that Voiceover volume is connected to the volume of music or an audio book that is playing. On my 4S I don't think I had this issue so I think it's less of an iOS 7 issue than a 5S issue. Anyways, consider this: I am playing an Audible book and I have my phone locked and before I locked it Voiceover was set to a comfortable volume. Now when the phone is locked I turn down the book way low. Now I press the home key to unlock the phone and suddenly Voiceover is so quiet that I can barely hear it. Also consider this: I raise volume on the volume rotor all the way to 35% which, as Ron pointed out, is as high as it will go. Now I do a 2-finger swipe up on the home screen to get Voiceover to start reading continuously and I now use the volume down button to lower Voiceover volume so I can just hear it. Now I check the volume rotor by flicking up and it is still at 35%. In the same way I can turn volume on the rotor down to 1% which is as low as it will go, then I get Voiceover to start speaking and I can use the volume up key to make it so loud that it distorts, but the rotor volume is still at 1%. There is something very wrong, it's not a total dealbreaker and you just have to use the volume keys a lot to set your Voiceover volume where you want it since you aren't able to set it independently or use the volume on the rotor to do so. The only place where it's annoying is during a phone call, but that part was never right on my 4S after iOS 5 so it's nothing new except that I hoped on the 5S it was once again possible to balance the volume of a call on speakerphone and Voiceover volume independently using the volume keys to turn call volume down and volume on the rotor to turn Voiceover volume up. I don't know if you have a 5S, but it definitely seems that this is the same for all 5S users and not one of these things which affects only a small percentage of users. Anyhow, I am fairly confident Apple will fix this, they may say they have no estimated time when this will be fixed, but I'm sure they prefer to say that even if they might have it fixed in the next update which I suspect will be out in a few weeks. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 7:09 AM To: viphone Subject: Re: Skype, facetime and phone volume Hi, I'm not sure I understand. If you turn down the volume while listening to an audible book, does the actual Voiceover volume in the rotor gets turned down? Or does all system volume turn down. If the second, this is standard behavior. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 20, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Joanne, Theoretically you should just be able to use the volume buttons to increase or decrease the volume while a call is going on. Having said this, there definitely seem to be a few issues with Voiceover volume and other volume levels in iOS 7. If, for example, I turn down the volume when I am playing an Audible book, Voiceover volume goes down as well even if Voiceover is not even speaking. This should not be happening and I just send a message to Apple Accessibility about that. Hopefully others do as well and this is fixed soon. But you should still be able to lower the volume of a Facetime Audio call or increase the volume of a Skype call while the call is in progress. I actually just checked this by placing a call to the Sound Test service and I was able to increase and decrease the volume while the announcement was speaking with my phone held to my ear and using the volume buttons. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joanne Chua Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 1:12 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Skype, facetime
