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My iPhone has 2 speakers apparently... O_O

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SR71

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So I was under the impression that the iPhone only has one speaker - the one on the bottom of the phone. Apparently, I was wrong. Lately my iPhone has been showing a button to enable AirPlay.

When I click on the button, it shows two options, "iPhone," and "iPhone Speaker." I saw this and figured "eh, it's just a bug...", however, I was wrong! When I select "iPhone" my music seems to play from some speaker at the TOP of the phone, either through the headphone port or the noise canceling mic, it seems. It is also very quiet compared to the normal iPhone speaker that is on the bottom of the phone.

Can anyone explain this?
 
iPhones have two speakers...the receiver and the "speaker" speaker at the bottom.

When you speak on the phone, you receive the audio with the receiver. If you place that call on speaker mode, it will use the speaker-mode speaker.
 
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sammich said:
Apparently when you talk to someone with the phone up to your ear, the sound is transmitted to your ears via magic.
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Wow... I'm friggin' stupid or something. I completely forgot about the ear speaker. Well, question answered, thanks guys.

/facepalm @ myself
 
I didn't know you could play music through the ear speaker, my iPhone doesn't show that option.
 
This is actually easy to replicate. All you need to do is be listening to music from the 'Music' app and try to Shazam it. Once Shazam opens, it forces the music out of the earpiece speaker. I haven't however been given the option via AirPlay to play it out of that speaker.
 
No option here to AirPlay out the receiver (top speaker) either. Could it be some sort of malfunction and the AirPlay thinks there is an external speaker connected via the headphone jack or bluetooth or...?
 
PNutts said:
No option here to AirPlay out the receiver (top speaker) either. Could it be some sort of malfunction and the AirPlay thinks there is an external speaker connected via the headphone jack or bluetooth or...?
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You are meant to use the headphone for music.
 
So, question is... how do I make the AirPlay symbol stop appearing? It's messing with my music whenever I plug in headphones or an iPod connector for my car stereo. It makes the music skip for the first couple of seconds.

Anyone know to get this to stop (I don't even know how it started)?
 
SR71 said:
So, question is... how do I make the AirPlay symbol stop appearing? It's messing with my music whenever I plug in headphones or an iPod connector for my car stereo. It makes the music skip for the first couple of seconds.

Anyone know to get this to stop (I don't even know how it started)?
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So... does anyone know how to get AirPlay to stop appearing?
 
When I first unlocked my iPhone 4 5.0.1 couple of months back when I played music through ifile or music app I used to be able to choose by touchin a icon besides the volume and back pause/play forward when you touch it you could select iPhone speaker or iPhone when iPhone speaker selected plays through bottom loudspeaker when iPhone selected plays through ear speaker only recently it has stopped can someone please help
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SR71 said:
So... does anyone know how to get AirPlay to stop appearing?
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From my 'judgement' I've guessed it is when you plug earphones in, you have the choice to play out of speakers or headphones.

I found if I'm using my earphones, and on the phone, I can still play my music in the background (in the earphones) maybe this has a link.

I could only guess the reason it plays out of top speaker is so it isn't distracting if you're using your phone & calling someone
 
JordanBurt said:
From my 'judgement' I've guessed it is when you plug earphones in, you have the choice to play out of speakers or headphones.

I found if I'm using my earphones, and on the phone, I can still play my music in the background (in the earphones) maybe this has a link.

I could only guess the reason it plays out of top speaker is so it isn't distracting if you're using your phone & calling someone
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This thread is well over a year old and shouldn't have been revived. I realized my mistake about a day after posting this.
 
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