Schrödinger's Microphone: Google Meet Says Muted, iOS Says Otherwise
Schrödinger's Microphone: Google Meet Says Muted, iOS Says Otherwise
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Horizontally stitched screenshots showing a Google Meet call on the iPhone where the microphone mute icon is highlighted in active mute status while the lock screen displays a mute icon which is not selected and inactive.
Always been this way for months. IIRC, the lock screen mute button is nonfunctional. Mute functionality detailed here.
Latest Versions: iOS 17.6.1, Google Meet 260.0
I should report this bug to Google and not Apple, right?
doesn't this mean you muted it for google meet but not for IOS?
19I hopped on a meeting with myself for further testing.
- I joined a Google Meet.
- I speak and see that microphone is unmuted.
- I mute in the Google Meet app, which works properly.
- I lock the phone and iOS reports my microphone is not muted. However, the microphone is still muted.
- I mute the microphone from the lock screen and I remain muted.
- I unmute the microphone from the lock screen and Google Meet unmutes.
- I mute the microphone from the lock screen and Google Meet mutes.
- I unmute in Google Meet and the iOS lock screen unmutes.
- I mute Google Meet but do not mute from the lock screen, and I try to use the microphone in another app, but am unable to do so.
Thus, my perception is that there is unexpected and/or inconsistent behavior here, because the initial Google Meet mute status does not propagate to the iOS lock screen. There does not seem to be an advantage to muting from Google Meet instead of the lock screen because the microphone is unavailable in other apps anyway.
6No. The mic is either on or off. There’s no “per app” mic mute.
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I'm not sure you understand. There is a mute functionality in Meet and there is one in iOS. This is so that you can have different apps with different states of mute. The OS level control is there so you can mute the mic for all apps at the same time.
17Yup. iOS mute is like a hardware mute (not really, but the “reach” is the same) in that it mutes for everything, everywhere on the phone. Meet mute is only for that program.
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Why not both?
3Yeah you’re right both it is!
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Another test:
When using Slack Huddles, the Slack & iOS mute states are mirrored 1:1. Toggling mute in either toggles mute in the other.
Microphone is unavailable for at least iPhone keyboard dictation & Voice Memos while in a Slack Huddle regardless of mute status.
Tested via Slack latest 24.09.10 just now, same iPhone 14 Pro on iOS 17.6.1.
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