I also find it interesting how something which has been the status quo at least ever since I bought my first iPod Touch Third Gen in 2009 now suddenly should no longer be so. Bluetooth always has routed all audio including Voiceover and system sounds to any Bluetooth device and it's only in iOS 13 and with some speakers where this is no longer happening. In the case of the person who has several Bose products and where Voiceover and system sounds no longer comes to the speaker this is a disaster and she wished it were back to what it was before. To a few others it's a welcome change even though it's by far not a new feature since it seems on most Bluetooth speakers it is still as it always has been, i.e. Voiceover, system sounds and any audio stream which is playing come through the speaker. If Apple could make it an easy feature which one could turn on or off then fine, I have no problem with that, but as it is it seems to be a bug which affects some devices. As for sighted people not wanting to hear Voiceover blasting out over the speaker, if a Voiceover user is using their device and is with several others who may not like this he or she can always mute Voiceover or turn it off altogether once whatever audio is playing.
-----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2019 1:09 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com; alia robinson <ali...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Resolving a Bluetooth and voiceover issue with external speaker IMHO, all audio, including voiceOver should go through a bluetooth speaker or head phones by default. If you don't want VoiceOver to go through an external speaker then use Air Play or Chrome Cast. Of course, if Apple could add a feature where you could send media to one bluetooth device while sending VoiceOver somewhere else then that would be a nice feature. On 12/29/19 2:59 PM, alia robinson wrote: > true, and what sighted user is going to want to hear vo blasting through a > speaker if you’re playing media? to me this is not a bug, but a welcome > change. > > On Dec 29, 2019, at 3:30 PM, <terri...@gmail.com> <terri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is truly funny. I believe it was a year or so ago that many blind users > of VO demanded that VO stay with the iPhone and music and other media play > through a Bluetooth speaker. This made a lot of sense because it allowed a > user to adjust volume and other settings, select a play list or source, etc, > from their phone without blasting VO through the speaker. This makes the most > sense to me. > -- Christopher (CJ) Chaltain at Gmail -- 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: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/2cf906ce-ac80-305e-4c8e-bb0cecee374d%40gmail.com. -- 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: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/MWHPR06MB25734BD5CD789A6989B40B00C7270%40MWHPR06MB2573.namprd06.prod.outlook.com.
