Hi Alan, It is a Voiceover/accessibility feature because if Voiceover is not running the phone never automatically switches, this feature does not exist for sighted users because for them it’s super easy to simply tap the speaker button whereas a blind person has to find it first and if audio was only coming from the earpiece you have to sort of hold your phone close enough to hear but not so close that the screen doesn’t react to your touch and all that. I also sometimes wish this was more consistent. All in all I still prefer the automatic switching even if from time to time it happens when you don’t want it to happen.
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 3:10 PM To: 'VIPhone Email List' <[email protected]> Subject: Resolved was Where is the setting not to have the iPhone revert to the speaker when moved away from my ear? Hello again List, I found my own answer. It's under Settings, Accessibility, VoiceOver, Audio, Auto select speaker in call. I've now turned this off. I guess I had trouble finding it because this doesn't seem like an accessibility setting to me since everyone talks on the phone whether using VoiceOver or not and might want to tweak whether the call comes through the speaker or not. Alan Hi List, I'm having a devil of a time finding the setting to turn off causing the phone to send audio through its main speaker when moved away from the ear. When on a phone call, my phone keeps switching between the main speaker and the ear speaker even though I'm holding it next to my ear causing me to lose a lot of the spoken words. I'm running iOS 13.2 on an iPhone 8. Thanks in advance for any help. Alan Lemly -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/019401d58f6e%24ccaecd00%24660c6700%24%40gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/019401d58f6e%24ccaecd00%24660c6700%24%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/MWHPR06MB25731A34AF3858A9B7C49886C7630%40MWHPR06MB2573.namprd06.prod.outlook.com.
