How can I stop phone calls from interrupting my streaming audio?

Hearing Aids
#12

Well I like the fact that I can take phone calls hands free and can be steamed into both ears. Don’t know why I would want everyone to know I’m on the phone. Certainly don’t want to be seen using the phone while driving. I have to wear the hearing aids anyway so why not use the feature that comes with them that makes my life easier. My wife sometimes wears ear pods so she can stream and take phone calls inconspicuously. Now I can do that. Now I’m a real boy

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#13

If you turn on airplane mode, phonecalls won’t come through. Of course you’ll need to turn it back on when you’re done streaming music, but that’s simpler than re-enabling the bluetooth connections.

#14

But if you are streaming music from the cloud turning on airplane mode will stop that. I regularly stream music from my Apple Music account that isn’t downloaded to the phone, and need to maintain an internet connection to stream the music.

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#15

I agree totally. I cannot see a way of changing it.

#16

“I know I must be one of the few (maybe only one) who doesn’t take calls in my hearing aids.”

I don’t. I also don’t stream, anything. Never have. Not in my hearing aids, not on my laptop. I am very tech challenged. I do not own a cell phone. I have never used blue tooth. You aren’t the only one who doesn’t take calls in the HAs. I have no clue how to even begin, with that sort of thing.

#17

I don’t know if you could have it not go to the HA only when streaming however in the settings you can have the calls never automatically routed to the HA. Under accessibility, hearing aids then audio routing.

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#18

I described that earlier, but Phonak aids aren’t Made for iPhone, and don’t support that feature.

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#19

edit…never mind…I see you’re iphone… Sorry I’ve got nothing…

I’ll leave my original post as a refence to others that might find the thread
with android
go to settings
bluetooth
then scroll down looking for R-Phonak hearing aid (or whatever it’s named). It’ll have a little headphone icon beside it.
Click the gear beside it.
you should then see toggles to turn off/on phone calls, media audio, contact sharing… and perhaps other things depending on what you have installed… turn off the toggle for “phone calls”

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#20

Darn, sorry missed that…

#21

Go into settings on the phone then accessibility then touch. Under that you should find call audio routing you should be able to set it to speaker.

#22

Thanks, I’ll give it try and let you know how I get on.

#23

I don’t like the phone in my hearing aids either. To have the other person’s voice panned center in my head is something I couldn’t get used to.

I have a Clarity phone at home and a cell. I prefer both of them on speaker if I am in a place that’s appropriate.

Bob

#24

In my android, there’s a setting in the Bluetooth settings that let’s me choose what device I want sounds and calls to go to. I don’t know if iPhone has a similar Bluetooth setting.

#25

All this does is ensures every call I receive gets broadcasted on the speaker, whether or not I’m streaming at the time.

#26

Isn’t that what you want?!

#27

I want the call to be routed to the phone’s “ear piece” as opposed to being broadcast to the external speaker.

Like an old fashioned handset. You lift the reciever to your ear!

#28

On my phone…Android LG G8 Thin-Q

  1. Longpress the Bluetooth symbol at top pull-down
  2. Locate Hearing Aid (on mine it’s just the R Aid)
  3. Press the little GEAR next to the Hearing Aid
  4. Note on-off tick selections for streaming audio & PHONE CALLS
  5. Turn OFF the PHONE CALLS, but leave streaming audio on
#29

I have Phonak P90s hooked up via multi-point BT to my work & personal iPhones. I’ve been told that I sound great on phone calls via the HAs, FWIW. I use the tap control to ignore phone calls if I don’t want to take them. Of course, random strangers think I’m smacking myself in the head, but that’s the price you pay for cool tech!

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#30

He has the P70s. I don’t think they have tap control.

#31

I have P90/312; no tap control.

It’s no big deal. As I said I have “R-Phonak hearing aid” disconnected most of the time which stops calls coming through to my HAs. This is my choice. Twice a day I reconnect for 30 minutes to stream radio during dog walking. Thanks to this thread I have learnt I don’t need to open the phone app (which takes so long) in order to decrease ambient sound during streaming.

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