Hi Sherry,

 

Joseph was referring to buttons on the touch screen not the physical mute 
“switch”. When a call is in progress, you have the following buttons on the 
screen (you may have to hide the keypad if it is on the screen, the hide button 
is to the right of the 0 near the bottom right of the screen). The following 
buttons are listed in the order they appear from top to bottom. above them you 
first have the name or phone number you are calling and the call duration 
counter. If you put a call on hold, the call duration counter is rreplaced with 
the word “Hold”. Here now the buttons:

 

Mute

Keypad

Speaker

Add Call

Facetime Video

Contacts

End Call

 

On my iPhone 5S with iOS 9.2 the behavior is such that whenever I call a number 
the keypad seems to be displayed. I don’t know if there is a way so that it 
isn’t, but even if I hide it, hang up and then call the number again the keypad 
is back and I first have to hide it in order to get to the above mentioned 
buttons.

If you simply double tap the Mute button on the screen, it will be announced by 
Voiceover as “selected” but you don’t notice a differencve. If you try/practice 
by calling some automated number like maybe your telephone banking number or 
credit card company, you continue to hear the announcements, if you were 
talking to somebody you could still hear their end of the conversation, but if 
Mute is on the microphone is muted and the other side won’t hear you.

If you double tap and hold on the mute button, a call is placed on an actual 
hold.  This means you don’t hear anything and the other side doesn’t hear 
anything. You have to hold rather long, it’s probably a good 3 seconds after 
the double tap before it switches to “Hold”. As soon as it does the keypad 
reappears and in order to take the call of Hold you have to first hide the 
keypad again.

I am not sure why this is the case and to me this seems to be more of a bug 
than anything that makes sense. You can dial numbers on the  keypad while the 
call is on hold and said numbers appear in an edit field above the keypad, but 
at least as far as I can tell there is nothing you can really do with these 
numbers, e.g. it doesn’t appear like I can actually call another number while 
the first call is on hold, for example, if I was talking to somebody and maybe 
I would want to call somebody else to ask a quick question then get back to the 
first caller. On a multi-line office phone off course one can do this, you put 
the caller on hold, call the other number on the other line, ask your question 
or whatever and then hang up or put that line on hold while you get back to the 
first call. When I dialed a number with one call on hold, I did not see a 
“Call” button, just “End Call” and “Hide” in addition to the numbers, the Star 
and Pound symbols.

 

 

Regards,

Sieghard

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Sherry Wells
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 7:09 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Answering a telephone call while you are already talking to 
another caller on your iphone

 

On my 5s the mute button is a button you slide back & forth, you cannot hold it 
down.  So I’m still totally lost on how to put someone on hold while you take a 
2nd call.

 

Sherry Wells

 

From: joseph hudson <mailto:[email protected]>  

Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 12:45 AM

To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  

Subject: Re: Answering a telephone call while you are already talking to 
another caller on your iphone

 

Hello, yes I can do this. I meant collars. And I also made mute button. So when 
I was essentially trying to say, if you will hold down the hold/mute button 
that will put all the callers on I hope this clarifies everything and sorry for 
the miss dictation email. hold.

Joseph Hudson 

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On Dec 28, 2015, at 11:04 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

 

Hi Joseph,

 

This is useful, but I have a hard time to understand some of what you say since 
it appears you used SIRI without proof-reading afterwards. I get “colors” are 
probably supposed to be “callers”, but what do you mean by the following:

 

“What I call beep saying “

“want you look at the calendar of eight”

“slashing the button”

 

Could you rephrase some of this so we can all get the full meaning?

 

Regards,

Sieghard

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of joseph hudson
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 11:16 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: Answering a telephone call while you are already talking to 
another caller on your iphone

 

Hello Michelle, this is how I'm only do that. What I call beep saying, I 
normally hit the hold and accept button. Then if I want to navigate between the 
two, I use the swap button. I also just recently learned, that if you want.1 
color on hold or both colors on hold, want you look at the calendar of eight or 
something of that nature, you can simply do this by holding down the mute 
button. The swap button, slashing the buttons, Can be found after you hide the 
keypad. I Hope this helps and if you need any more assistance, feel free to 
reach out.

Joseph Hudson

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 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]

 

On Dec 28, 2015, at 12:52 PM, Michelle Bernstein < 
<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> wrote:

 

Can someone explain the gestures that you employ to answer an incoming 
telephone call while you are already speaking with someone else on the iphone? 
How do you place someone on hold and switch back and forth between callers?  
Thank you.  Michelle Bernstein

 

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