After your harping about it, I decided to test the muting function. Though I have muted my iPhone a few times last week, I did not receive any calls or messages during those times.
I muted my iPhone. I locked the screen. I called my iPhone using a landline. Quite nicely, the caller ID was not announced. However, When I hung up before voice mail activated (here in NZ, it costs to call a mobile), my iPhone screen became active and VO announced the time. After the requisite time elapsed, VO announced screen lock. Initial conclusion, muting of speech needs some more work. I plan to write an email to accessibility suggesting that, when the mute switch is active, VO should not talk if the touch screen comes on automatically. Of course, if the touch-screen is engaged by a finger, or if the power or home buttons are pressed to bring up the touch-screen, VO should automatically start talking. In other words, another very nice feature which could use some tweaking. Thank you Daniel for pushing until I understood what you have been trying to point out. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 01/10/2012, at 18:27, James Mannion <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, but if it were truely muting the phone then if it were not still > selective you would get no speech feedback to get out of the muted > situation either. That would not be good. Also, here's a thought. How > loud do you keep your phone turned up, particularly when you are going > to be in those situations? Pressing the volume down button so that you > have more of a private listening situation could help if you are going > to be embarrasssed by a possible output of speech. Then if it were > inserted into your pocket and the volume down at a more private > listening level, I bet few if any would hear it and if they did they > likely would not think about it or care. So what exactly are you > advocating for here in your message? > > On 9/30/12, Daniel Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't mean to keep harping about this muting thing, but if it were truly >> muting the phone, it wouldn't say screen locked either. Can you imagine if >> you're in a meeting, and it's quiet for about 20 seconds, and in that 20 >> seconds, everyone hears 'screen locked'? How embarrassing would that be? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Wayne Merritt >> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2012 8:53 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Disappointed in do not disturb functionality of iPhone five >> >> Also, if you ever want to just turn on the do not disturb function without >> a >> schedule or at unscheduled times, you can always go into settings and >> change >> the status to "on" in notifications. That sounds like a good work around to >> me. I agree that there is room to grow. It would be nice for instance to >> set >> different quiet hours on weekdays verses weekends. However, what we have is >> a good start and will hopefully only get better. >> >> Wayne >> >> On 9/30/12, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi James, >>> >>> I can certainly see where integration Do Not Disturb with the Calendar >>> could have a lot of benefits for certain people. >>> >>> For now keep in mind that you can always just flick the mute switch >>> for a meeting, in iOS 6 muting the phone will not only mute the ringer >>> and alerts, but it will also ensure Voiceover will not start babbling >>> away if you have an alert or push notification. It truly mutes the >>> phone and that is a very nice improvement. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Sieghard >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >>> Behalf Of James Lockwood >>> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2012 5:51 PM >>> To: iphone group >>> Subject: Disappointed in do not disturb functionality of iPhone five >>> >>> When I first heard about the scheduling function in do not disturb on >>> the iPhone five I thought that it would allow you to schedule the >>> phone to ignore calls at certain .periods during a certain day. >>> However the application only allowed you to establish quiet hours >>> during which calls will be ignored every single day. However the do >>> not disturb function would be a lot more useful if it allowed you to >>> set different times for different days. For example if I know I have a >>> court appearance tomorrow at 2 o'clock it would be very useful for the >>> phone to have a function in which I can schedule the program to block >>> calls during that time. Then the following day if I have a meeting at >>> 1 o'clock I can set the phone to ignore calls for that time as well. >>> It could be a checkmark option when scheduling an event in the >>> calendar. Therefore you would never have to worry about your phone >>> accidentally being left on and going off in an important meeting. When >>> you schedule the meeting you would have already told your phone to >>> ignore calls for that time. >>> I don't know if anyone can develop an application which would do this >>> so we don't have to wait for the iPhone six for this functionality. >>> However if someone does develop such an application I would be willing >>> to pay quite a bit for it. >>> >>> >>> >>> James H. 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