Resume after a call

What counts as an interruption

• A call: a regular one, FaceTime or in a messenger.
• An alarm and Siri.
• Another app that took over the sound.

When the book does not continue

• It was already paused before the call: a call does not start it.
• The system did not allow it to continue or did not report that the interruption was over — this happens after another app with sound. Press play.
• You took your headphones off during the call while “Pause when headphones come off” is on: the book will not start playing through the speaker.

What else

• After a call, “Rewind after pause” applies: the pause is counted from the start of the call.
• If a chapter was downloading from iCloud when the call came, the book starts playing after the conversation, not in the middle of it.
• With “Sync across devices”, the value travels to your other devices.

Tip

Want to hear the end of the sentence again after any call? Choose a fixed value in “Rewind after pause”: “Adaptive” does not rewind after a call shorter than a minute.

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