How to answer or cancel the phone call on airpods pro with a winter cap covering ears riding bike?
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How to answer or cancel the phone call on airpods pro with a winter cap covering ears riding bike?
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Unfortunately, you can’t use Siri to answer calls for you so that isn't an option. The only thing I can think of is to enable auto-answer calls when you go riding...
Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Scroll to the bottom > Call Audio Routing > Auto Answer Calls
I believe the default is 3 seconds...so after ringing for that amount of time, the phone will auto answer. You may want to play around with Siri shortcuts and see if you can automate those steps into one Siri action, like "Hey Siri, turn on auto answer calls"...
If you do that, you may want to have Siri announce calls to you as well...
Settings > Phone > Announce Calls
Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Scroll to the bottom > Call Audio Routing > Auto Answer Calls
I believe the default is 3 seconds...so after ringing for that amount of time, the phone will auto answer. You may want to play around with Siri shortcuts and see if you can automate those steps into one Siri action, like "Hey Siri, turn on auto answer calls"...
If you do that, you may want to have Siri announce calls to you as well...
Settings > Phone > Announce Calls
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Say goodbye, the person at the other end of the call will hang up, mission accomplished.
Perhaps, unless the person the the other end is on airpods pro with a winter cap covering ears riding bike too.
Please don't bike with earbuds in around other people, it's dangerous if you can't hear where a sound is coming from. Even with transparency mode, your ability to tell which direction a sound is coming from is severely diminished. Setting aside that listening to music or talking on the phone is also distracting.
If you're alone on an empty road, go for it - it's your skin. But don't put others in danger.
If you're alone on an empty road, go for it - it's your skin. But don't put others in danger.
You should edit the thread title to, “How to answer or cancel the phone call on AirPods Pro while wearing a winter cap covering the ears while talking to someone else also wearing AirPods Pro under a winter cap while biking in the woods and not around others”. 
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I wear a hat with mine and the stems protrude a bit. If the hat is entirely covering them, not sure how Siri would help as the microphones would be covered.
Good to know.
Unfortunately Siri is not active during a phone call by design, so there doesn’t seem to be any possibility of ending a call that way.
I’m sure they’ll get on it right after they solve the “How to answer or cancel the phone call on AirPods Pro while wearing a rubber swimming cap covering the ears” problem.
