Just want to point out for everyone who wants that switch to be a mute button instead of a "less noise switch": I LOVE the way it works now. There are many of us out there.
Mutator silences your iPhone, no exceptions
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Re: Mutator silences your iPhone, no exceptions
#12Do you really want this little dude sticking out of your phone 24/7? I get the feeling people will take it in and out rather than do the twist thing. And in that case, wouldn't carrying around the snipped-off end of any random 1/8" audio cable do the same thing?
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#13"In the Off position it does absolutely nothing, allowing you to use your iOS device as usual, but twist it into the On position and it mutes all sounds coming from the device apart from alarms you have set manually."
Those sound like exceptions to me.
Re: Mutator silences your iPhone, no exceptions
#14Buyer beware if you have a case on your phone - it states in the FAQ on his Kickstarter page that this will only work with low-profile cases (which is hard to gauge qualitatively).
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#15Wait, there's a problem with the mute function? Excepting alarms (from Clock.app), my iPhone is silent when it's switched to mute. I'm guessing people have a bunch of third party apps installed that don't respect the mute button?
Videos, Games, Siri can/do make noise when "ring/silent" switch is engaged. I usually don't have a problem but sometimes Siri launches when I don't expect her to - quit an app... wait... pling-pling-pling!
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#16"In the Off position it does absolutely nothing, allowing you to use your iOS device as usual, but twist it into the On position and it mutes all sounds coming from the device apart from alarms you have set manually." Those sound like exceptions to me.
Misleading headline! Alert the media! ... see what I did there?
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#17"In the Off position it does absolutely nothing, allowing you to use your iOS device as usual, but twist it into the On position and it mutes all sounds coming from the device apart from alarms you have set manually." Those sound like exceptions to me.
With those exceptions it wouldn't have prevented something like this famous example:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/nyregion/ringing-finally-s...
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#18My phone mutes texts, I don't get it.
It's about accidental user interactions - like when Siri launches when you don't expect - or if you forgot that you had a game running that makes sounds when you were last using your phone and you unlock it in class and the angry birds music starts playing and your teacher looks at you... and you know.
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#19This is such a glaring weakness of the iPhone's current mute function. I can't believe we need a hacky hardware dongle to provide it. But given that we're at that place, this is about as good a solution as I've seen for those times when you can't turn your phone off but absolutely do not want it to make noise.
A hardware solution to a software problem. So sad. That said, I personally have no issues with the mute mode. I works as intended for me. Also, this entire product lime can be made obsolete by a simple software update from Apple.
> Also, this entire product line can be made obsolete by a simple software update from Apple.
True, but it sounds like the project team might actually consider that a success, since they designed this to work around a problem they wish they didn't have.
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#20My 3GS has a broken Ring/Silent switch that is permanently on 'ring'. I've been trying for a year to find a reliable way to make it shut up -- I'm a 'silent always' kind of guy, and that switch failure made me hate my phone. This looks like a pretty great solution!
Can you set ringtones on the iphone? If so can't you just record nothing and set that as the text acknowledgement tone?