iPhone annoyance

[nosrednayduj]

So I got this iPhone, with the idea that "everything would be great because it is new and modern". It turns out that it's so modern, that it really really really wants to figure out some other way to produce sound than it talking. So far, I have had to tell it not to use Bluetooth to give me directions (the radio was not playing in the car, so it was not speaking), not to use car play when I plugged in the phone to charge it (I think I should have just allowed it to do so, because there were two places, one in the car and one in the phone, that I had to tell it to shut up, and it just decided not to talk after that and I had to pull over and restart navigation after unplugging it), and the strangest thing was that somehow the sound had gotten to be at zero, and in order to get it to listen to the volume up button, it had to be speaking, but I didn't know when that was going to be given that the volume was zero. Turns out if you just start navigation, it starts to talk, and if you start pushing the volume up button you can suddenly start hearing it. I had to ask the Internet for this trick. Anyway, the result of this is that I don't trust it to continue to give me directions, because it might just suddenly decide that there must be some better thing to do than talk, and so it shuts up and the better thing isn't really connected…

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IPhone volume

[apparentparadox]

You might have luck adjusting the volume using the control in control center. From a standard home screen, bring up control center, and there is a volume control. It will show whether it thinks it is using its own speaker (no icon) or bluetooth connection, etc. The only trick is that bringing up control center is different if you have a home button or face id, but you can google the instructions.

Also, check Settings->Sound & Haptics. There’s a button for “change with buttons” that determines whether the up/down buttons affect the ringer and alerts. I suspect you have that on, so that’s why it had to be making noise to have the volume affected by the buttons. My phone is always on silent/vibrate, so I turned that off.

Re: IPhone volume

[nosrednayduj]

I do have the "use buttons to change volume" selected, because it seemed like that would be a useful feature. I didn't know it meant "only when I feel like it". According to Google, the control center is swipe diagonally from the upper right corner, which I knew about, but didn't know it was called control center. I haven't actually used that screen for anything except getting the flashlight!