Do you find yourself answering the phone and quickly putting it on speaker mode? Well, there’s an easier way than tapping buttons. You can set your iPhone settings to answer in speaker mode automatically within the Settings app. It’s part of Apple's accessibility features. Here’s how to set speakerphone as the default for answering incoming calls.
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To do this:
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Open the Settings app
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Tap General
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Select Accessibility
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Scroll down and tap on Call Audio Routing
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Then select the Speaker option.
Your calls will automatically be answered with speakerphone from now on. In the same settings, you can also choose Bluetooth Headset if you often use one of those and would like audio to automatically redirect to your headset.
If you want to take a call without speakerphone, answer the call and then tap the speaker icon to go back to the regular iPhone speaker sound. That’s all there is to it!