You are right, Chris, remapping the Majic Gesture won’t help in this case.
Like yourself, I understand exactly why this is happening, yet many a time music starts chiming on my phone at the wrong moment!
Personally, I believe that including playing music as one of the Majic Gesture functions wasn’t the shrewdest decision. Especially that it takes precedent when VoiceOver somehow loses focus.
All who agree, how about joining me in submitting a request to VoiceOver developers to address this issue? The gist being to add an option to exclude play/stop music from the Majic Gesture functions, or better yet to add an option to limit it to work only when any of the media applications is in focus.
Kind regards,Amro
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On 26 Aug 2023, at 12:08 am, Chris Hill <chris.hill59@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello All,
Although you can re-map touch gestures in Settings I doubt if this will help in this case. By default the two-finger double tap invokes a command called “Magic Tap”. As well as starting and stopping media, the magic tap command answers and ends phone calls and starts and stops dictation in an edit box. You could move the magic tap command to another touch gesture, but then the new gesture would still perform all the functions of the magic tap.
As Steve said, you’re likely to accidentally start media playing if you attempt to end a phone call that’s already been ended. I also often accidentally start media playing if I do a magic tap to try to start dictating into an edit field that I haven’t yet activated with a one-finger double tap.
Yes, it’s a bit annoying, but I think if you understand why something has happened then you can quickly reverse it and hopefully not do it quite so often in the future.
ChrisOn 25 Aug 2023, at 17:16, Mo Khan <mk3386751@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hi amro, yes, this is frustrating. I believe you can assign gestures in settings. perhaps worth looking into. good luck.thank you.Mo.
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 10:18 PM Amro Bilal <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Evening everyone,
As you know, when doing the two finger double tap gesture on the iPhone, it starts playing the last media it was playing. Is there any way of stopping this VoiceOver behaviour?
So many times, I’d be doing something completely different on my iPhone, and in the process the phone start playing music or YouTube or what have you. This is getting extremely annoying and inconvenient.
Kind regards,
Amro
