Easy Ways to Turn off Speakerphone for iPhone, Android, and Landline Phones
Release timeļ¼2023-05-27 15:25:05 oRead0
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Turning off Speakerphone During a Call
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Tap the round, highlighted "Speaker" button on your screen. If you're using either Android or iPhone, this button has a picture of a speaker and says "Speaker" beneath it and will appear every time you're making or receiving a call.
- If you don't see this button on iPhone or Android, you aren't actively in a phone call and have the phone app open.
- If you're using a landline, like a Cisco phone, push the button on the phone that has a speaker icon. This will enable speakerphone and you can hang up the receiver. To turn the speakerphone off, simply pick up the receiver and press the speaker button again.
- If you find that your iPhone always answers on speakerphone, you may want to use the following method to turn off the default speakerphone option.
- 1 Open Settings. Tap the app icon that looks like a pair of gears.
- 2 Tap Accessibility. It's next to a blue icon in the third grouping of menu items under "General" and "Control Center."
- 3 Tap Touch. You'll find this under the "Physical and Motor" header next to a blue icon with a white pointing hand.
- 4 Tap Call Audio Routing. It's near the bottom of the window. If this already says "Automatic," then the active speaker will be chosen automatically if you're receiving a phone call or a FaceTime call.
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Select Automatic. You can set this to "Bluetooth Headset" or "Speaker" to always have the call routed through those speakers instead of the headset speaker.
- For iOS 12 or earlier, these steps will be slightly different. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Call Audio Routing > Automatic instead.