Hi Ricardo, Normally it is not standard behavior that Voiceover volume is connected to the volume of music or an audio book that is playing. On my 4S I don't think I had this issue so I think it's less of an iOS 7 issue than a 5S issue. Anyways, consider this:
I am playing an Audible book and I have my phone locked and before I locked it Voiceover was set to a comfortable volume. Now when the phone is locked I turn down the book way low. Now I press the home key to unlock the phone and suddenly Voiceover is so quiet that I can barely hear it. Also consider this: I raise volume on the volume rotor all the way to 35% which, as Ron pointed out, is as high as it will go. Now I do a 2-finger swipe up on the home screen to get Voiceover to start reading continuously and I now use the volume down button to lower Voiceover volume so I can just hear it. Now I check the volume rotor by flicking up and it is still at 35%. In the same way I can turn volume on the rotor down to 1% which is as low as it will go, then I get Voiceover to start speaking and I can use the volume up key to make it so loud that it distorts, but the rotor volume is still at 1%. There is something very wrong, it's not a total dealbreaker and you just have to use the volume keys a lot to set your Voiceover volume where you want it since you aren't able to set it independently or use the volume on the rotor to do so. The only place where it's annoying is during a phone call, but that part was never right on my 4S after iOS 5 so it's nothing new except that I hoped on the 5S it was once again possible to balance the volume of a call on speakerphone and Voiceover volume independently using the volume keys to turn call volume down and volume on the rotor to turn Voiceover volume up. I don't know if you have a 5S, but it definitely seems that this is the same for all 5S users and not one of these things which affects only a small percentage of users. Anyhow, I am fairly confident Apple will fix this, they may say they have no estimated time when this will be fixed, but I'm sure they prefer to say that even if they might have it fixed in the next update which I suspect will be out in a few weeks. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 7:09 AM To: viphone Subject: Re: Skype, facetime and phone volume Hi, I'm not sure I understand. If you turn down the volume while listening to an audible book, does the actual Voiceover volume in the rotor gets turned down? Or does all system volume turn down. If the second, this is standard behavior. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 20, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hi Joanne, > > Theoretically you should just be able to use the volume buttons to increase > or decrease the volume while a call is going on. Having said this, there > definitely seem to be a few issues with Voiceover volume and other volume > levels in iOS 7. If, for example, I turn down the volume when I am playing > an Audible book, Voiceover volume goes down as well even if Voiceover is not > even speaking. This should not be happening and I just send a message to > Apple Accessibility about that. Hopefully others do as well and this is > fixed soon. But you should still be able to lower the volume of a Facetime > Audio call or increase the volume of a Skype call while the call is in > progress. > I actually just checked this by placing a call to the Sound Test service and > I was able to increase and decrease the volume while the announcement was > speaking with my phone held to my ear and using the volume buttons. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Joanne Chua > Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 1:12 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Skype, facetime and phone volume > > Hi all, > > Just wondering if anyone here knows how to turn up Skype phone calls volume > and turn down facetime audio and phone call volume? > > I theoriticly need to turn voiceover down to 35% to get a decent audio > belance between skype and VO on my iPad. On another hand, when i turn my > phone volume to the lowest, and facetime audio volume, it is still very > loud. > > Is there a way to control the volume seperetly? I don't able to find such > setting anyware on skype setting, or on setting itself. > > your help is very much appreciate > > Thanks in advance > > Joanne Chua > The flip side of Inclusion is Exclusion. > Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate > Send from my iPad > > -- > 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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