How to turn off the sound (voice navigation) in FreeNow app?

[watty]

How do you turn off the street by street voice directions in the FreeNow app?  I got a new phone recently and it's driving me nuts that I can't turn it off properly.  Obviously I did it on my last phone but I'm fukked if I can remember how!

1. I don't see any option in the app settings.
2.  There's a loudspeaker icon on the main page but that doesn't seem to do fukk-all.
3.  Even if I turn down the volume of my phone (side buttons), the sound is still getting through.
4.  I even went into the FN app individual setting on my phone and turned off it's ability to access the sound function but it's still getting through.

The best I've got so far is no sound but the radio volume dips every time FN tries to send vocal directions through the car radio.

[Octavia1]

Disconnect the Bluetooth from the car ting ?  Why do ya need it ?

[watty]

Bluetooth is used for the card machines (sumup & square)

[Octavia1]

Bluetooth is used for the card machines (sumup & square)

Yea ....I always turn it off ....an it asks for permission
Yucan turn it off on the phone ...but also on the car  ?

[watty]

Turning things on & off at the side of the road would only confuse me tbh.  Best to keep it simple Shirley (K.I.S.S.) 

Like today, I somehow managed to dim the screen to black just as I pulled up to Dunnes with the pax waiting with their shopping.  I tried shouting out the window to explain myself but they just looked at one another like, does this guy have a driving licence!

[Octavia1]

Is the fn sounding tru yur car stereo?
Or do yu mean yu can't turn it off comin tru the phone speaker ?
Leave  blutooth on on yur phone and turn blutooth off on the the car settings ?  Maybe I'm not getting wat ya mean ....its bean a long day 

[watty]

It's doing both.  Or maybe I'm hearing voices at this stage.

I can just about hear her voice from my phone.  But the phone app is also sending a signal (but no voice) to the car radio that dims the radio sound while she says turn left etc etc

I'll mess around with bluetooth tomorrow and see if that changes things 

[Octavia1]

It's doing both.  Or maybe I'm hearing voices at this stage.

I can just about hear her voice from my phone.  But the phone app is also sending a signal (but no voice) to the car radio that dims the radio sound while she says turn left etc etc

I'll mess around with bluetooth tomorrow and see if that changes things 

Switch off yur car blootooth ting  on the car settings?
yea play round wit it .......
Jus remember watty ....no matter how bad tings get .....thers always sum poor cnut havin a worse day

https://youtu.be/d4T3XpYqkmM?si=ovBrgJEcGsCcvWKw
 

[Jack Meoff]

Settings
Voice guidance
Traffic alerts only

[watty]

Settings
Voice guidance
Traffic alerts only

Tried that - didn't work (when the car bluetooth was on).  Will try it again next time I'm working.  Thanks 

[watty]

@ Octavia1:     Turning off the car bluetooth and unpairing my phone from it seems to have fixed a lot of the problems.  I'm not hearing voices anymore and that bloody woman has stopped telling me where to go!  Only potential problem now is I think I have to physically hold the phone when I need to phone some lazy fecker who is 5 mins late coming out of their house.

Still, we're 90% of the way there.  More experimenting to do over the weekend.  I owe you a pint of sheep's milk or whatever it is youse Celts drink 

It's amazing (or maybe not) that the FN app doesn't have an on/off switch for the voice directions.  It's pretty embarrassing driving someone around for money and reward and the phone is shouting away telling you where to turn etc etc...

[Octavia1]

@ Octavia1:     Turning off the car bluetooth and unpairing my phone from it seems to have fixed a lot of the problems.  I'm not hearing voices anymore and that bloody woman has stopped telling me where to go!  Only potential problem now is I think I have to physically hold the phone when I need to phone some lazy fecker who is 5 mins late coming out of their house.

Still, we're 90% of the way there.  More experimenting to do over the weekend.  I owe you a pint of sheep's milk or whatever it is youse Celts drink 

It's amazing (or maybe not) that the FN app doesn't have an on/off switch for the voice directions.  It's pretty embarrassing driving someone around for money and reward and the phone is shouting away telling you where to turn etc etc...

Why do yu have to hold the phone in yur hand watty ? ...
.anyway glad yur makin progress .......
I learned me lesson very quickly  wen I got me prius new.... an me text messages came up on the  big screen .....I was drivin cople American to the airport....an I looked at the screen an the luv o me life was texting wat
 she was goin to do to me Willie later ....I mean ya know the graphic stuff after they go on the hrt .....embarrassing 

[watty]

Because before, the sound went through the car radio/speakers via bluetooth and I could talk to the sleepy head via the car (handsfree).  I guess now, with no bluetooth, I have to hold the phone to my ear and use it like a regular phone?  Ah, we'll find out in a day or two.

Main thing is we've stopped that bloody woman telling me how to drive 

[Octavia1]

Because before, the sound went through the car radio/speakers via bluetooth and I could talk to the sleepy head via the car (handsfree).  I guess now, with no bluetooth, I have to hold the phone to my ear and use it like a regular phone?  Ah, we'll find out in a day or two.

Main thing is we've stopped that bloody woman telling me how to drive 

Jus turn on the loud speaker on yur phone  watty 

[Octavia1]

Do ya not have that green button on yur phone ?