Hello Tessa, Donna, Jodie, Andy and others, This is one of the most annoying characteristics of Voiceover and I hope that all of you who dislike this as much as me write to accessibil...@apple.com to request that in some future update Voiceover is just silenced when a call is active. Andy's suggestion to turn off push notifications to me is something I should not have to do, I have an iPhone and use apps which have push notifications because that is what I want and having to turn off all push notifications just so my phone calls aren't interrupted is equivalent to saying you have to turn off WiFi, Bluetooth, Push email and location services just so I can get better battery life. I don't need a fancy smartphone if I have to disable half its features to stop it from doing one annoying thing.
This discussion has come up before and I know some people have argued in favour of all of this chatter happening although I really don't know why somebody would want their phone to start reading a text message, an email or a news headline while one is on a phone call. When this happens to me I sometimes have to ask the other party to hold on for a moment until Voiceover shuts up or I can shut it up because I can't hear them any more. The iPhone is after all also a cell phone and while some people may use it more for other stuff than actual calling, for me it is my only personal line and I also use it for my business so I do receive and make a lot of calls and I really hope that maybe in iOS 7 Apple has done something about this. In my opinion Voiceover should just be quiet during a call, but I guess it would be OK if at least there was a setting where one could enable this and that way those who like to hear all of this stuff while they are on the phone can continue to do so. The same goes for Voiceover constantly announcing the call duration, also annoying and completely unnecessary, if I want to check how long I have been on the phone I can easily touch the screen and check and I don't have to hear it every 20 or 30 seconds. I understand that I can turn speech off with a 3-finger double tap and I sometimes do that, but it's a major pain in the winter when my iPhone is in my pocket or belt clip under a heavy coat and I am wearing gloves. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andy Baracco Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 7:49 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Alerts during a call? You can go into Settings, Notifications, and shut off the push notifications that bother you. That's what I have done. Andy -----Original Message----- From: Donna Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 4:10 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Alerts during a call? Yeah, I know whatcha mean, receive no alerts, get an important phone call and the alerts come in numbers!! I use the 3 finger double tap to turn off voiceover. For me this is faster and less interruptive when in a call. Donna On Aug 11, 2013, at 6:16 PM, "Tessa" <virilin...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > Hi< > How do I stop an alert from speaking when I'm taking a phone call. For > example when one of my facebook friends posts something the phone lets me > know but it often happens when I'm in a call and I can't seem to turn it > off > without turning off the alert feature, unless I'm missing something which > is > entirely possible. I know when my clock chimes hitting the volume button > stops the sound, but it doesn't do much for facebook and alerts like that. > Any suggestions. > Thanks all > Tessa > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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