In call audio options, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 26

I take or make a call using the regular iPhone audio options (bring phone to ear). Often times I will put the call on speaker phone to take it hands free. I accomplish this by pressing the "Audio" circle and selecting "Speaker".

Since upgrading to iOS 26 I have the option to pass the audio off to devices within my home that I don't own (ex: other household member's iPads). I like the option of handing off to MY devices if I ever needed to (my airpods, my car audio, my iPad, etc) but I don't want to hand off to devices I don't own nor do I want someone in my household to use my phone or iPad to hand off their audio to. Is there a way to restrict this?

iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 26

Posted on Oct 6, 2025 1:12 PM

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Oct 8, 2025 11:19 PM in response to SheRuns07

Re: "In call audio options, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 26 : " ... I don't want to hand off to devices I don't own nor do I want someone in my household to use my phone or iPad to hand off their audio to. Is there a way to restrict this?"


Wondering if everyone in the home has their own Apple Account as Apple suggests ?

Eg: Make sure that each family member has a unique Apple Account - Apple Support

says:

"If you share your Apple Account with a family member, certain services will treat you as the same person."

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Seems you can only use handoff between devices with handoff turned on, that use the same Apple Account.


Here's Apple support's article: How to: Use Handoff to continue tasks on your other devices - Apple Support

Eg: Amongst the requirements the article says:

"Each device is signed in to iCloud with the same Apple Account".


"Each device has Handoff turned on:"


There's a lot more info. in the article above. Seems you can take full control of handoff using the info.

Eg: Turn off handoff on devices you don't want to use handoff with.

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