Has anyone gotten the answer or decline calls to work with airpods when shaking or nodding your head? I ask because I've tried it and no luck. I.e, if I do the test in bluetooth settings, if I nod or shake my head, it’s registered. But when I get a call... Voiceover announces the incoming call but, shaking or nodding my head does nothing. Am I missing something? I have announce notifications by siri turned on but, it doesn't seem to work, has this worked for anyone?
By Igna Triay, 12 September, 2024
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no
it doesn't work for me as well...
odd, are we
Are we missing something? The odd thing is, do the test? it works but, I don't know if its a voiceover issue? This should work voiceover or no, though.
Nope!
15+ phone, and no joy! In addition, I find the volume of the indication signal to be quite low!
Not for me either
In settings, the demo works but not for facetime/phone calls. I didn't think it could be or not related to voiceover, I didn't see any post on that on forums so I'd asume it's the case? I tried to report this in feedback but can't find the firmware version in the app, wonder if it's a dev beta or not? Like I tried to register airpods pro2 for beta but couldn't get the dev mode to work, my phone would do it in background but I didn't have any voiceover feedback for 5-10 minutes, force rebooted it and had to restart the process again and no luck.
Works for sending and not sending messages
Do my surprise I had my AirPods Pro on requested to send a message and I got a little bouncing ball in my ear and I was able to not up and down to send a message and was able to shake left and right to cancel the message still can't answer a phone call though need feature typical Apple half baked!
Only works with Siri requests
This only works with Siri requests. Whenever voiceover is on and you get a call, it’s technically not a Siri request, so you can’t use the head gestures. This may work if VoiceOver is turned off (maybe) but I’ve not tried it. as shown in WWDC, it only works when responds and says call from <contact name or phone number here>. I don’t think it works when voiceover reads out phone calls, but I could be wrong. I’ve not tried that feature except for the test in settings.
Head Tracking Not Working with VoiceOver for Calls
It looks like head tracking only works with Siri, but not for answering or declining calls when VoiceOver is on. I tried the test in Bluetooth settings, and it worked. But when I get a call, nodding or shaking my head does nothing. Has anyone found a way to fix this? Maybe turning off VoiceOver could help, but I haven’t tried it ye
works for notifications but not for calls
The head tracking works to interrupt SIRI while reading notifications and for sending messages, but it is not working for answering and declining calls. I tried this jesture with and with out voice over in both the cases the result was the same. the tracking did not work. I have set the announce caller ID in SIRI settings to always. The strange thing is that when voice over is disabled the SIRI is not reading the caller id also even if you recieve call from the people in your contact book.