I didn't have a Windows Mobile phone, but I did have several Symbian
phones from Nokia, and they also supported profiles. I agree this would
be a great feature. As with Symbian phones, you could control sounds but
also other settings, such as cellular data, wifi, bluetooth and so on.
Apple could even tie this to your current location.
On 10/10/2013 11:04 AM, Traci Duncan wrote:
:) It is definitely hard to try to please all the people huh? We all have such
different tastes & needs.
Funny enough, in IOS7, turning VO sounds off was one thing I was sooooo looking
forward to. Often, when I'm at home and very quietly using my phone, I was
muting it. The down side of this for me, I tended to miss alerts. I love not
having the clicks and sounds of VO.
I'm confused about something… I thought when we mute our phone, VoiceOver
won't read alerts and such on the lock screen.
Another suggestion for folks, go into the control center and put do not disturb
on.
For any of you beta testers or who may have influence, here is one thing I
continue to miss from my old windows phone.
Profiles!!! Why in the world, does Apple not have this option!? It would be
the perfect item for the control center. Imagine a ticker that you could flick
through, outdoor, in a meeting, sleeping, etc. Do you guys remember this from
windows phones? There were something like 4 different profiles that modified
the phones sound style. It was something I used often back in the day.
Anyway, I'm sorry for the users that aren't fond of this changed feature. I'm
definitely in the camp of loving it! :)
Traci
Getting bored waiting for her iPhone5s
On Oct 6, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Joanne Chua <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, One can always turn down the volume to zero. If not, one can also
3 fingers double tap to turn speech off. Third option is triple click
on home button to turn vo off.
Beside, one can also choose to use headphone, in that way, no one else
can listen to the anoying voiceover on speaker. Yes, VO is rather
anoying, when its on speaker. :)
On 07/10/2013, Christopher Chaltain <[email protected]> wrote:
I agree completely with Cara here. I want to be able to hit the mute
button and turn off all sounds and VoiceOver. I don't want to be in a
meeting and realize I forgot to turn off the sounds on my phone and have
to unlock it so I can turn it off or go into settings to turn sounds
off. I don't always want to turn the phone off because I may want to
quickly look something up, check for messages or take a quick note. It
may be true that the mute button just turns off the ringer and alerts,
but those are the sounds a phone makes when VoiceOver isn't on. I think
the real purpose of the mute button, as used by sighted users, is to
mute the phone, i.e. turn all sounds off. The vibration may bother some,
but if the phone is in my pocket, it's much less bothersome to those
around me than having VoiceOver go off and start reading an alert.
On 10/06/2013 07:21 PM, Brice Smith wrote:
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 <[email protected]> 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
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Of Cara Quinn
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 12:27 PM
To: [email protected]
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 <[email protected]> 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
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