The same thing happened to me. I reported this bug to Apple. They are working 
on it.

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> On Sep 30, 2019, at 2:36 AM, Chantal Ferreira <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> The same thing has happened to me. But the suggestions of phoning my
> phone or turning it off and on has not helped.
> 
> The strange thing is that I can bring up Siri and get the feedback and
> then when I'm on the Siri screen VoiceOver works. But the minute I go
> back to the home screen, nothing.
> 
> I have no idea what else to do.
> 
> Any other suggestions.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Chantal
> 
>> On 9/30/19, karuna Chopra <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yes! You are absolutely right! I have had this happening to me at least
>> three or four times a day! Not only is it very and Irving, but I also end up
>> wasting a lot of time. Often times I have to get cited help to get my phone
>> back up and running! Very very frustrating!
>> 
>> 
>>>> On 30-Sep-2019, at 2:42 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> All I can say is to bombard Apple Accessibility wit emails about ithis.
>> 
>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
>> [email protected]
>> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2019 2:11 PM
>> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: Voiceover, all system sounds an d vibrations stop after making
>> many phone calls
>> 
>> I get this also with more than a few calls I’ve made with iOS 13 and 13.1.
>> Just yesterday it happened on three successive calls for example.
>> 
>> Kelly
>> 
>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
>> Sieghard Weitzel
>> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2019 3:24 PM
>> To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Voiceover, all system sounds an d vibrations stop after making many
>> phone calls
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have been an iOS/iDevice user since 2009 when the iPhone 3GS and the third
>> Gen iPod Touch were first released with Voiceover and I have also been beta
>> testing new iOS releases for many years.
>> 
>> I started Beta testing iOS 13 almost since the start of the public beta
>> program and already experienced the issue I mentioned in the subject line
>> throughout the beta cycle.
>> I as well as other Voiceover beta testers I know have reported  this via the
>> Feedback app during the beta cycle. I am sure given how many other Voiceover
>> users experience this, it has also been reported to Apple Accessibility
>> since the official release.
>> I will also CC this to the Viphone list where visually impaired users
>> discuss iOS and iOS devices so they can forward this back to Apple
>> accessibility, I tried to outline the issue in as much detail as possible so
>> there is no point for others to have to re-write all this, but of course
>> everybody can feel free to add any comments to what I wrote.
>> 
>> The issue:
>> you make a phone call and after you hang up all sounds go away as do
>> vibrations.
>> 
>> Different users seem to be effected differently, some experience this more
>> than others, but it happens on phone calls, Facetime calls as well as calls
>> with other apps such as Skype.
>> It used to be that for me it mostly happened if I was using the wired Apple
>> Earpods and then asked SIRI to call somebody and then used te in-line remote
>> button on the Earpods cable to hang up the call.
>> Now in iOS 13.1.1 it seems worse for me, yesterday I made two calls directly
>> from the phone without any headset and hung up with a 2-finger double tap
>> and both times my phone went silent and it is then extremely difficult for a
>> blind person to get Voiceover and other sounds back. Vibrations also go away
>> except for a very small amount of haptic feedback when I press the virtual
>> home button (I have an iPhone 8), not sure if people who have an X/XR/XS or
>> 11/11 Pro get any haptic/vibration feedback at all.
>> I often use the Mute switch to determine if the phone is still even on when
>> I have an issue with Voiceover going silent. Wen the phone is unlocked or on
>> the lock screen and I flick the switch to Mute, there is a vibration and
>> that is a good way to make sure the phone is on, but even that vibration is
>> not present in this case.
>> If I call my phone from another phone I also get no vibrations even so I
>> have set my phone to vibrate any time a call comes in. To a blind person it
>> almost appears as if the phone was off, but my wife who is sighted says she
>> can do anything on the phone and when I call it the call pops up on the
>> screen and she can answer it.
>> 
>> Fixes:
>> I have tried to triple tap the home button which I set up to toggle
>> Voiceover on and off, but that in itself has no effect. Same with asking
>> SIRI to turn Voiceover on and off, when the phone is in this state I also
>> get no SIRI sound, e.g. I can say “Hey SIRI” and my wife says SIRI comes up
>> and is listening, but the tone doesn’t play and if I ask something like
>> “What time is it” SIRI shows the result but it does not speak the time as it
>> usually does. As I said, all sounds are gone as if the volume was completely
>> at 0%. And, before you suggest that it is maybe because the volume dropped
>> to 0%, it is not since I always check this by pressing the volume up button
>> repeatedly and my wife confirms that volume was actually at 100%.
>> 
>> Sometimes this resolves itself if I call the phone and answer the call, then
>> hang up the second call and then turn Voiceover on and off, but there have
>> been times when the only solution was to completely turn off the phone and
>> turn it back on.
>> Of course for a completely blind person this is also not always easy if you
>> get no feedback whatsoever, I have to hold the Power button for a bit hoping
>> I did so long enough so the Power Off button is there and then that a double
>> tap will activate it, then wait 30 seconds so hopefully the phone has
>> completely shut down and then push and hold the power button again to start
>> it up again. As I said, I can’t even confirm whether the phone is off or not
>> by flicking the Mute switch, normally I could do this and if I don’t get a
>> vibration when I flick it to Mute it is a pretty good indication that the
>> phone has powered down.
>> Of course a hard reset is also possible. On my iPhone 8 I can press Volume
>> Up followed by Volume Down followed by pushing and holding the power button
>> for about 10 or 12 seconds, but again, I should not have to do this several
>> times a day just because I actually want to use my expensive, high-end
>> iPhone to make phone calls and this bug exists and Apple can’t be bothered
>> to fix it since it only affects Voiceover users.
>> Consider this scenario: a sighted user makes a phone call or a Facetime call
>> and after they tap the end call button the display goes completely black or
>> blank. They now have no visual feedback and if another call comes in the
>> phone rings, but they can’t see anything on the screen, except for the
>> ringing it appears to be a dead phone. They now have to try to answer the
>> call without visual feedback or they have to try and turn the phone off
>> without any visual feedback whatsoever and then back on. I wonder what
>> consumers would post to social media and what the tech press would say about
>> this scenario. One thing I am sure of, such a bug would have never survived
>> even a week before it was fixed and it certainly would not have survived an
>> entire beta cycle and made it into the final release and two subsequent
>> releases, 13.1 and 13.1.1.
>> 
>> All I can say is that this issue needs to be fixed asap.
>> This bug should definitely not survive even one more update and in fact a
>> 13.1.2 update should be forthcoming within 1 or at most 2 weeks specifically
>> to address this issue.
>> It is completely unacceptable and it diminishes Apple’s reputation for
>> having the most polished experience and the  most accessible devices for
>> people with disabilities.
>> Time Cook once said that “accessibility was a basic human right” and if that
>> is so then such a major issue is violating the human rights of any Voiceover
>> users who experiences this multiple times every day.
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Sieghard Weitzel from Smithers, British Columbia, Canada
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