Hi, And, while the phone is muted, till it stops vibrating, you can't slide to answer.
Sent from a Braille Sense ----- Original Message ----- From: Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> To: "viphone@googlegroups.com" <viphone@googlegroups.com> Date: Saturday, February 18, 2017 5:59 pm Subject: RE: vibration not working on silent > > > I think Apple needs to do a bunch of work around this and decide on how to > handle various scenarios. I can confirm that when the mute switch is on and > somebody calls my phone does the one short vibration and Voiceover announces > the caller, but no vibration happens beyond this. Here is my further > complaint: if you allow a caller to bypass Do Not Disturb they also bypass > mute, in other words if you open a contact, go to the person's ringtone and > turn on Emergency Bypass then you hear all tones (text tones, ringtones etc.) > if Mute is on but Do Not Disturb is not on. The explanation of Emergency > Bypass is this "Emergency bypass allows sounds and vibrations from this > person even if Do Not Disturb is on". Of course I think this is great because > you may want certain people like close family membes to be able to reach you > even at night or when you are in a meeting, but at this point the way it > works means that the mute switch and Do Not Disturb basically do the same > thing. I think that if I really want no ringtones or other tones to come > through then turning on mute should do this and it should even mute those > tones from people who have emergency bypass turned on. Alternatively, Apple > could add a second setting to let you decide separately if tones should come > through when mute is on, by default it should be off, but maybe there is one > or two people who should absolutely reach you no matter whether Do Not > Disturb or mute is on. > The other problem is that for those of us who have an Apple Watch the watch > obeys any setting you have for Do Not Disturb, if somebody calls you where > Emergency Bypass is not on for that person the call actually goes straight to > voice mail. I guess in a way this is different from Mute because if mute is > on and somebody calls the caller will hear the ringtone and only be passed on > to voice mail once the appropriate number of rings have passed. Anyhow, the > problem is that if you turn on mute on the phone and somebody calls the Apple > Watch still rings. It's like it doesn't know that you put your phone on mute > and I think since it's connected to the phone at all times via bluetooth the > phone should tell the Apple Watch "Hey, the mute switch was just turned on, > so you also go to mute". What good is it if you are in a meeting or at church > and you turn on mute, but then your Apple Watch rings anyways. > Also, it is important to note that this issue with no vibrations on mute is a > Voiceover bug. If you put your phone on mute, then turn off Voiceover with a > triple click of the home button and then lock your phone and call it the > vibrations come through just fine. > I will definitely submit this to accessibility @applecom and as usual the > more of us who do this the more likely it is Apple will take this seriously. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Jed Barton > Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 7:26 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: vibration not working on silent > > how did you end up reporting it, did you use an app? > > On 2/18/2017 8:37 AM, Jennie Facer wrote: > > I have the same issue. I don't really understand it, but I have > > reported it. Hopefully they will fix it. > > Jenn > > > > Jenn and Kumi > > > > On Feb 17, 2017, at 6:18 PM, Jed Barton <jedbar...@gmail.com > > <mailto:jedbar...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > >> Hey guys, > >> > >> OK, so i ahve a bit of an issue. I'm running the latest IOS, and my > >> iphone 7. When i go to put the vibrate switch on the side of the > >> phone, it did the same thing with my iphone 6. when i get a call, i > >> feel a little pulse, and voiceover tells me who's calling. If i'm > >> not paying attention i'll miss the call, as it doesn't do long > >> vibrates to indicate a ring. Any ideas what's going on? Anyone else seen > >> this? > >> It is set to vibrate, but it just does a quick pulse. 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