Hi Sieghard, I am new to the list and am just learning about my iphone 4s. I hope you don't mind me asking a question.
By triple tapping the home key, do you mean the round button at the bottom of my phone? I have tried this and didn't have any success. Thank you much, Russ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: announcements if using speaker or earphones Hi Dan, There is no feature which allows you to do this, but there are some ways which work and which may or may not work for you. When you are on a call and Voiceover announces the call duration, take your phone away from your ear and let it switch to speaker (not necessary if you use a headset). Now flick focus of Voiceover away from the call duration maybe to the End Call button. According to some people on the list this permanently prevents Voiceover from announcing the call duration unless focus is moved back to that area. I should say that for me on my 4S this is not a fix, even if I do this, once the call continues for a while, at some point Voiceover will say "Screen Locked", then maybe within 20 or 30 seconds after that Voiceover continues to announce the call duration every 20 seconds. Alternatively, and this work-around definitely works, you can turn speech off with a 3-finger double tap once the call has started. This is not the same as getting rid of Voiceover altogether with a triple click of the home key. The 3-finger double tap will make Voiceover say "Speech Off" and after that you will not hear Voiceover again until you do another 3-finger double tap and Voiceover says "Speech On". While speech is off Voiceover gestures still work, e.g. you can still use a 2-finger double tap to end the call. If your phone locks that is no problem either, the 3-finger double tap to mute speech also works in the lock screen which makes it easy to turn the speech back on after your call. The only disadvantage is that you have to get your phone out of your pocket or possibly belt clip or backpack. I find using this method to mute Voiceover is OK at home when I have the phone in my hand, but it's not a good solution if I am out and about and I have an incoming call because more often than not I use my wired or Bluetooth headset to answer the call and really have no need to touch the phone if it weren't for this annoying babble during the call. I have written to [email protected] and I would urge you to do so. Some people on the list argue they like Voiceover to talk during a call, I think it's super annoying because if I get a push notification or text message and Voiceover starts reading it while I am talking to somebody it is normally not possible to continue the conversation. I often had to ask the other person to hold for a moment while I dug my phone out of my pocket so I could shut it up. I have no problem hearing whatever sound I set for incoming text messages, push notifications and so on, but apart from that I think a phone call should have priority over Voiceover reading out incoming alerts or messages and I definitely don't need Voiceover to tell me every 20 seconds the call duration, if I really want to know how long I've been on the phone I can easily find that and check it manually. Let's hope Apple has that fixed in iOS 7. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Beaver GMail Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: announcements if using speaker or earphones Hi, I have managed to use tips from this list to turn off auto announcements of caller and time in call. However, if I use the speaker or earphones it still announces the caller and duration of the call. this happens every few seconds and is driving me crazy. Is there a way on an IPhone 5 to turn these announcements off too? Thanks. 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