I think Apple needs to do a bunch of work around this and decide on
how to handle various scenarios. I can confirm that when the mute
switch is on and somebody calls my phone does the one short vibration
and Voiceover announces the caller, but no vibration happens beyond
this. Here is my further complaint: if you allow a caller to bypass Do
Not Disturb they also bypass mute, in other words if you open a
contact, go to the person's ringtone and turn on Emergency Bypass then
you hear all tones (text tones, ringtones etc.) if Mute is on but Do
Not Disturb is not on. The explanation of Emergency Bypass is this
"Emergency bypass allows sounds and vibrations from this person even
if Do Not Disturb is on". Of course I think this is great because you
may want certain people like close family membes to be able to reach
you even at night or when you are in a meeting, but at this point the
way it works means that the mute switch and Do Not Disturb basically
do the same thing. I think that if I really want no ringtones or other
tones to come through then turning on mute should do this and it
should even mute those tones from people who have emergency bypass
turned on. Alternatively, Apple could add a second setting to let you
decide separately if tones should come through when mute is on, by
default it should be off, but maybe there is one or two people who
should absolutely reach you no matter whether Do Not Disturb or mute
is on.
The other problem is that for those of us who have an Apple Watch the
watch obeys any setting you have for Do Not Disturb, if somebody calls
you where Emergency Bypass is not on for that person the call actually
goes straight to voice mail. I guess in a way this is different from
Mute because if mute is on and somebody calls the caller will hear the
ringtone and only be passed on to voice mail once the appropriate
number of rings have passed. Anyhow, the problem is that if you turn
on mute on the phone and somebody calls the Apple Watch still rings.
It's like it doesn't know that you put your phone on mute and I think
since it's connected to the phone at all times via bluetooth the phone
should tell the Apple Watch "Hey, the mute switch was just turned on,
so you also go to mute". What good is it if you are in a meeting or at
church and you turn on mute, but then your Apple Watch rings anyways.
Also, it is important to note that this issue with no vibrations on
mute is a Voiceover bug. If you put your phone on mute, then turn off
Voiceover with a triple click of the home button and then lock your
phone and call it the vibrations come through just fine.
I will definitely submit this to accessibility @applecom and as usual
the more of us who do this the more likely it is Apple will take this
seriously.
Regards,
Sieghard
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Jed Barton
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 7:26 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: vibration not working on silent
how did you end up reporting it, did you use an app?
On 2/18/2017 8:37 AM, Jennie Facer wrote:
> I have the same issue. I don't really understand it, but I have
> reported it. Hopefully they will fix it.
> Jenn
>
> Jenn and Kumi
>
> On Feb 17, 2017, at 6:18 PM, Jed Barton <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> OK, so i ahve a bit of an issue. I'm running the latest IOS, and my
>> iphone 7. When i go to put the vibrate switch on the side of the
>> phone, it did the same thing with my iphone 6. when i get a call, i
>> feel a little pulse, and voiceover tells me who's calling. If i'm
>> not paying attention i'll miss the call, as it doesn't do long
>> vibrates to indicate a ring. Any ideas what's going on? Anyone
else >> seen this?
>> It is set to vibrate, but it just does a quick pulse. Any thoughts?
>>
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