Hi everybody!
For the last year with every new iOS-release I reported to the Apple-Accessibility-Team that the bluetooth-bug, where VO goes to max-volume, when connected to a bt-speaker, still exists. Also the rotor-option for audio-destination (sorry, I don't know the proper english term) is completly broken and literally non-existent. Every time I got the standard-response, that they are aware of the problem and that they are already investigating...
Any ideas, what I can do except for reporting over and over again? All I want is to use my bt-speakers they way they're meant to beused.
Sorry for the rant, by now I'm just a bit frustrated with that bug.
Best regards and have a good one, Daniel
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Bluetooth
I'm assuming when you say you want to use your bluetooth speakers the way they are meant to be used, you mean having VO come out of your phone and the other audio come out of your speaker(s). One thing you might try is to go into settings and then select your bluetooth speaker. Make sure you identify it to your phone as a speaker. I can't remember the exact phrase VO gives, but I think you can find it by swiping down on the device name. Make sure you identify the device as a speaker. That seems to work for me.
The way it's meant to be used
Hi Sockhopsinger!
Thank you for your suggestion, however I already tried all device types (car-radio, headphone, speaker, hearing-aid and others).
What I meant with the way bt-speakers are supposed to be used is that:
1. I don't want the iPhone's master-volume go to maximum level whenever a bt-speaker is paired since this is unpleasantly loud. I already created an activity that lowers the VO-volume to 2 percent, however since the master volume is at max the 2 percent still can be fairly loud.
2. Since there is an audio destination rotor option, I want to be able to chose wheter VO speaks through the iPhone itself or the paired BT-speaker. Yet, the audio destination doesn't show up when a BT-speaker ispaired eventhough it is selected in the VO-settings. When listening to music I want the VO-output on the phone, yet when I want to work on a text I want the VO-output on the BT-speaker for better soundquality.
However, thanks again for your suggestion. I'm wondering that not more blind people are irritated by those bugs since the use of BT-speaker should be a comon thing for us.
Best regards and thanks again,
Daniel
Bluetooth speaker pushes VoiceOver volume to Max
Hi Daniel, yes I have also reported this to Apple Accessibility numerous times. It is extremely frustrating for me also, I would love to just play music and scoot through my tweets and toots without this extremely annoying bug. I have just tested it today on 18.2 on my wifes phone and it is still present, as you say The only workaround I can see is setting the VoiceOver volume to a lower percentage in an activity, but this is not automatic or covers all situations. I have not updated my phone from 17.2.1 just because of this problem
Same here
Using an iPhone 12 Pro in connection with a Bose Soundlink speaker and I can reproduce same issue. Voiceover is still freaking out, when my phone is connected with the BT speaker.
Reported it also many times, but getting also only the answer that they are working on it.