I use my iPhone to connect to conference calls at work. Frequently I'll need to speak up, with little notice. But it takes me upwards of three seconds to be able to unmute to speak:
- Click home button to bring up lock screen.
- Use fingerprint to unlock phone.
- Hit green bar at the top to get into the current call.
- Hit "Hide" on the keypad if it's up.
- Finally, hit mute button to unmute.
I have Googled around and not found any sort of shortcut here. Even the ear buds lack any sort of unmute feature. My workaround has been to sit there and fiddle with the phone screen for the whole call so it doesn't lock itself.
What can I do to improve this situation?
Best Answer
There is no "good" answer for this, but here's the best I can figure out.
Once you are on the call and muted:
make sure you are on the screen that displays the mute/addcall/facetime/contacts buttons (I'll call this the "mute screen" from hereonout)
click the top button that turns off and locks the phone
when you need to unmute, you can click the on/off or home button and swipe right. at this point you will see the "mute screen" and you can unmute.
this only works once as far as I can tell. Once you have done this once, the next time the phone locks and you need to unmute, swiping right will not display the mute screen, but will just display your passcode pad as usual.
NOTE: in order for this to work at all, the screen MUST BE the mute screen when you click the top on/off button. If you are on any other screen when the phone locks, this will not work even one time, as far as I can tell.
I hope this is helpful. As usual with Apple, basic functionality is omitted for no discernible reason. "YOU AREN'T I-TELEPHONING RIGHT."