You know how when you’re flipping through photos on your iPhone or iPad and you come to a video and it starts to play but it’s muted? I think we’d all agree that it’s a good thing that it defaults to muted.
When this happens to me, I don’t want to miss anything so I don’t fiddle trying to hit the on-screen mute button right away. Instead, I frantically find the pause button and then I try to grab the vertical video slider to get the video back to the starting position. Inevitably, I end up grabbing the Home Indicator/app switcher bar instead and switching apps. I eventually get the video back to the beginning and only then do I unmute with the on-screen mute button.
It drives me nuts every single time.
This weekend I was watching my 4-year-old granddaughter Siena play around on my phone looking at photos. She got to a video that was muted by default, and she instantly hit one of the volume buttons on the phone and the video instantly unmuted!
I’ve had every single iPhone ever made and I did not know you could do this!
Siena is hard of hearing and I think volume up for her is an instinctive move on her part but she sure did school me. I hope you like her little Tiny Tip on a quicker way to unmute on your phone when watching videos on iOS. She also takes a wicked selfie.
Love that brilliant little girl!!
She takes after her Memere! (In so many way…)