Hi everyone.
I know that the "audio destination" rota item, which previously enabled selection of whether Voice Over audio should be sent over a connection to a Bluetooth device such as a speaker or remain on the iPhone, has not worked for a number of years. The "Audio Destination" item does not appear in the rota. I am finding that Voice Over seems to behave in a very random way when I connect my phone to Bluetooth speakers, and the inconsistency even continue to occur when I am using the same Bluetooth speaker on different occasions. Sometimes the VoiceOver audio will be sent over the Bluetooth connection to the speaker and sometimes it will continue to come through the phone speaker. It seems to do this at random and there is no obvious pattern and I don't think I have changed any related settings.
I am wondering whether anyone has worked out a way to either force the Voice Over audio to play through the Bluetooth device or to come through the iPhone speaker. There are various situations where it would be useful to have some control over what happens to Voice Over audio, depending on what I am doing. Or, is it just completely random every single time a Bluetooth device is connected, with no way to control it at all.
Thanks.
James
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same with hearing aids
There are times when I need to help my roommate out, and he uses hearing aids. But, in order to access VoiceOver, he needs to disconnect his aids from the phone so I can hear voiceover. there should be an easy way to either force Voiceover to go through the phone's speaker, or to at least switch VO to speaker on the fly, or both.
Not sure about hearing aids, but
Regarding Bluetooth speakers, you can go into settings, Bluetooth, your Bluetooth device, and swipe up or down on it to get to the more info option, then tap on that. The dialogue that pops up should give you the option of choosing what type of device it is, and you can actually set it up to where even though you have Bluetooth speakers connected, most sound still comes out of the iPhone. My best advice would be to play around with the different options, and find out which one works best for your given situation.
HTH.
Yes, this should do it…
Yes, this should do it. Select speaker and voiceover will remain on the phone. There is still a bug with voiceover volume when connected to a bluetooth speaker where it gets a bit shouty when you enter an edit field. Hopefully that will be resolved soon though.
How to force VO on the…
How to force VO on the speaker though? I have the same problems and since 4 years or something it's been there and before like on ios 12 it was working perfectly as far as I can remember.
Oh, you want it to come…
Oh, you want it to come through on the speaker?
A guess would be to follow Brian's advice but set the output as headphones.
Me, the thread is about…
Me, the thread is about something else I think. I'm sure I've already tried that and it didn't work but I'll redo it. Thanks!
I can't help but...
I'm able to play voiceover through my JP flip Speaker.
As far as I know; I didn't do anything, I just set it up and it started playing through the speaker, it works on windows too.