Eric,
Thank you, thank you, thank you! It seems you’ve solved this mystery. I was seeing the same issue with AirPlay and couldn’t figure out why the issue was present on my iPhone 5s and not at all on my iPad Mini. Once I turned audio ducking back on, AirPlay now works as it should, leaving VoiceOver coming out through my phone as before. Hopefully, Apple will fix this but at least now there is a work around for the issue. Best regards, Rick Alfaro From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eric Siu Sent: Friday, November 7, 2014 9:03 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Could somebody who has an Airplay device test Airplay Possible solution to resolve the issue: Dear all, my wife, visually impaired, relies on voiceover a lot and she also notices this iOS8.1 bug which will stream both voiceover and music to airplay. The intended feature prior to iOS8.1 works well where voiceover should remain on iPhone speaker while music streams to airplay. We finally find out what causes the problem and work out the way to resolve the problem. Hope this helps other who encounter the same issue before Apple's next iOS upgrade to remove the bug. There is a new feature called audio ducking in iOS8.1. It will "duck" the audio when an alert/message comes in. As my wife cannot see, she has to set voiceover always on. When she listens to music and an alert/message comes in, the music will lower (i.e. duck) so that she can hear clearer the alert. A very good new feature indeed. By default, iOS8.1 has enabled this audio ducking. One day, she suddently notes that both music and voiceover get airplayed to speaker. We manage to identify the cause after a few resetting and "debugging" and find out that she has accidentally disabled audio ducking. Therefore, we would like to share with you all who are disturbed by the problem: Before you airplay, please enable audio ducking first (set audio ducking to on); voiceover will then stay on iPhone speaker and music gets airplayed. It works on our iOS devices and we hope it helps you too. Kind regards Eric On Monday, September 29, 2014 5:52:46 AM UTC+8, Sieghard wrote: Hello, I was quite shocked when I just wanted to send an Audible book to my Airport Express which is connected to my Sonos system. I was using my wife’s iPod Touch and at first Airplay was not even an option in Control Centre. It also appears that Audible has finally followed Apple’s lead and taken it out of the app which means the only way to activate Airplay is via the Control Centre. So, I rebooted the iPod Touch Fifth Gen which I recently upgraded to iOS 8.0.2 and then Airplay was there. I selected Sonos and was shocked to find that Voiceover was sent to Sonos along wit hthe stream from Audible. This was definitely not the case before the iOS 8.0.2 upgrade and if Apple has indeed messed this up we are back to where we were when Airplay was first introduced which I think was in iOS 5. Just as it was back then the reaction time between swiping or touching something and it being announced via Airplay is about 4 seconds… absolutely terrible. I have been trying to play something via Airplay on my iPhone 5S, but can’t even get the Airplay option to show up in Control Centre. OK, now I did another reboot of my iPhone and was able to select Airplay and with great relief I am finding that Voiceover remains on the device and is responsive. However, another reboot of the iPod Touch Fifth Gen still sends Voiceover to the Airplay device which really is not good. The Voiceover sounds and other click and systems sounds play on the device so I assume this is definitely a bug. I will have to write to access...@apple.com <javascript:> about this. As I said, maybe whoever has an Airplay device can do some checking especially if you own multiple devices such as an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- 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 <mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> . 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