Please stop allowing ads to hijack our muted audio

Speckles the Destroyer of Worlds

I'll be working at my desk, co-workers busy all around me. My phone has the silent switch enabled, since I'm at work. I stealthily slide my phone under my desk, click on something in the game, and do an ad-warp while I think nobody is looking.

Suddenly, my phone blares out "WHAT MAY SEEM LIKE A SMALL COUGH TO YOU....", and all my co-workers have been alerted and know I'm screwing around on my phone.

Can we please for the love of dog stop allowing ads to override my mute settings on the phone? I hate having to keep remembering to turn the volume all the way down every time I open the app, even though it should be muted. This happens with almost all the ads on iOS nowadays.

SunshineRiker

I'm sorry to say this is a known issue with our ad networks (out of our control to fix this in terms of coding). We're working with them to try and resolve it, but we don't have a timeframe for this fix.