Hi, I haven't experienced the 1st issue on my iPhone 5. Siri volume stays put on what I place it on. As far as your 2nd issue? Yes. It irritates me to no end. It is extremely loud, and really does hurt my ear. And it does indeed drown out the person I'm speaking to.
Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 3, 2013, at 10:54 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, I just bit the bullet today and now have gotten an IPhone 5. God! > Blessid! I love this thing! I do however have one very minor yet extremely > irritating problem, and I didn't know if maybe I forgot to set something, or > maybe if this is actually an IPhone 5 issue. First of all, let's talk about > Siri. One thing I notice is that when she speaks back to me, even though I > have Voiceover at a real comfortable volume, she is extremely quiet on the > Siri side of things. Yes, I did turn it up while she was in the process of > speaking, just like you do to raise the Voiceover volume. That worked, but I > then find that sometimes if I use Siri dictation, when she repeats back what > she's insertting into the text box, it's again really quiet. I'll turn it > back up, but then later after a few times of use, she'll notcher self right > back down. It's totally strange! I don't get it! Yeah, I did power off the > phone and back on just in case of a glitch. I also did quickly quintupple > rapidly do the 5 click press on the sleep button to reset my springboard. > That did no good either. > > The other problem is, say I'm on a call and I get a text message, or say a > Facebook alert etc. Voiceover reads the notification so loudly that it > almost blows my eardrum! The first time it happened, I almost through the > thing across the room as it scared me so badly. (OK, that's being a bit > exagerant, but you get my point.) LOL! The bottom line is, it was > extremely! loud. and I do mean, l'l'l'loud! I mean that sucker, had to be > at least! generously speaking, yet literally speaking, probably 3 or 4 times > louder than the person I was speaking to. As she was reading the > notification, I quickly clicked my volume down button on the left side of the > phone, and I got it where Voiceover was no longer blaring, but at that point, > the person I was talking to was almost inaudible. Could this be because the > setting under settings, sound was set to where the volume buttons effect the > ringer and alerts? I shut that off, as I normally have that off anyway, but > for some odd reason, that setting didn't carry over from my backup's > restoration from my old 4S. I just know that is gonna drive me nuts and make > me deaf in the longrun if I can't figure it out. LOL! Yes, I literally mean > it, it was that? loud! It was insane! The really bizarre thing is, now get > a load a this! on speaker phone? I don't have that problem. voiceover is > pretty much the same exact volume as the party who is on the line. Isn't? > that! weird? Anyway, yeah... I'm at a loss. If anyone has any clue, please! > do tell! Now, I'm really! curious. > > Chris. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
