Mutator silences your iPhone, no exceptions

This is such a glaring weakness of the iPhone's current mute function. I can't believe we need a hacky hardware dongle to provide it.<p>But given that we're at that place, this is about as good a solution as I've seen for those times when you can't turn your phone off but absolutely do not want it to make noise.

Do you really want this little dude sticking out of your phone 24/7? I get the feeling people will take it in and out rather than do the twist thing. And in that case, wouldn't carrying around the snipped-off end of any random 1/8" audio cable do the same thing?

"In the Off position it does absolutely nothing, allowing you to use your iOS device as usual, but twist it into the On position and it mutes all sounds coming from the device apart from alarms you have set manually."<p>Those sound like exceptions to me.

Wait, there's a problem with the mute function? Excepting alarms (from Clock.app), my iPhone is silent when it's switched to mute.<p>I'm guessing people have a bunch of third party apps installed that don't respect the mute button?

My 3GS has a broken Ring/Silent switch that is permanently on 'ring'. I've been trying for a year to find a reliable way to make it shut up -- I'm a 'silent always' kind of guy, and that switch failure made me hate my phone. This looks like a pretty great solution!

Buyer beware if you have a case on your phone - it states in the FAQ on his Kickstarter page that this will only work with low-profile cases (which is hard to gauge qualitatively).

Just want to point out for everyone who wants that switch to be a mute button instead of a "less noise switch": I LOVE the way it works now. There are many of us out there.

including the camera sound? thinking here of the privacy issues (ie: why all digital cameras still make the noise)<p>i was actually wondering that about the HTC one's video + picture functionality too.

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My phone mutes texts, I don't get it.