anyone found a work around for speaker phone issue in ios7?

By Troy, 13 October, 2013

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Hello, Just wondering if anyone has found a work around to the speaker phone issue when answering calls? I have a 4s and have that bug too. I know apple accessibility is aware of this and said they are working on it, but until then has anyone found a work around? I have found resetting the phone with power and home sometimes helps but I'm not going to continuously do this as it's not good for the phone. I have also heard from apple that someone told them resetting all settings on the phone has helped them, however this has not worked for me. Someone on here in the bugs discussion also mentioned setting the incoming calls setting to headset, however mine still answers on speaker, and when I hold it up to my ear I can't hear the caller at all. Just wondering if anyone has anymore suggestions while apple is working on this issue?

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By Lola Granola on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 21:40

Troy, I have a work around that seems to be working for now. Its annoying to have to do it, but it works until an official fix is released. As soon as you answer/place a call, if you put the phone to your ear, pull it away, then put it back up to your ear before you even say anything it will have the speaker off as it should be. I wish Apple would have in place an option to disable the feature altogether. The other day I was on a phone call while walking through a store. I walked past a fan that was running, and it triggered the sensor turning the speaker phone on.

Thanks for the suggestion! I can deal with it for now, but I agree as well hopefully and of course apple will need a lot of feedback on this before they will look at that option, but under accessability/incoming calls they need to make an option to disable the speaker phone and go directly to the earpeace or something to that affect so when you answer a call it answers the call just as if voiceover wasn't on.

By Isaac Hebert (not verified) on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 21:40

My work around is to just turn off the speech by using a 3 finger double tap.