I love being able to turn VO sounds on and off. It might be one of my favorite, most used features of IOS 7. I often want to silence the ringer and text message volume but keep VO clicks on. I use VO sounds for orientation purposes and always felt disoriented when they weren't on before.
For those who find this inconvenient, remember that the real purpose of the mute switch is to silence ringer and text alerts, not to make the phone truly silent. In fact, vibration alerts can be more annoying than ringing alerts for some people. Also, if the mute switch is down but voiceover is still on and at a loud volume, you'll still hear it speak at that loud volume if you unlock the phone, check the time, ETC. Mentally, I think it's most helpful to think of the mute switch as just that: a switch that mutes the ringer/phone noise. If you want total silence, turn the phone off. Brice On 10/6/13, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hi Cara, > > I can see how maybe Voiceover sounds should be linked to the Mute switch as > was the case before iOS 7, but I think I remember several posts where > people > actually thought it was nice that now this was no longer the case and that > one could mute the phone (ringer and alerts) yet still get Voiceover > sounds. > > As for having Voiceover linked to the mute switch, I don't think you'll > find > too much support for that. In any case, it's not really a big deal to press > power or home to bring up the lock screen and then to turn speech off with > a > 3-finger double tap which always has and still works fine. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Cara Quinn > Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 12:27 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: VO sounds > > Hi shane, > > I personally wish that I could continue to have my VO sounds linked with my > mute switch. I basically need to do several more steps now to toggle the > sounds off (even with sounds in the rotor) whereas before, I could simply > flip the mute switch. > > For myself, when I have my mute switch set to mute, I really want that > actually to mean that things are muted. :) Not to mean that now there are a > whole other set of sounds still going on. IN fact, since we're on the > subject, I'd also wish I could have my VoiceOver speech obey the mute > switch > as well. > > For my uses, it is just more steps to do the same thing. So while I'm glad > that people are happy with the extra settings, for myself, I'd prefer it to > obey the mute setting. Sometimes having more settings just to have more > settings is not always a desirable or sane thing to do. :) > > Now, I chose not to beta test, this cycle, but you can be sure I won't make > that mistake again. :) > > Just my thoughts. > > Smiles, > > Cara :) > On Oct 6, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Shane clark <hshanecl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > So I'm just curious, how do yall like the ability to turn VO sounds on/off? > I currently have my ringer turned on, with the VoiceOver sounds turned off, > so I'm just hearing the normal iPhone clicks. I'm kind of used to hearing > both the iPhone clicks and the VO sounds as well, so I am more or less > trying to play around with the different settings. > What do you think of these settings, and how do you prefer to have your > phone set? > Thanks. > > Sent from my iPhone > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > 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. > > 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. > > 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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