Twilio: Unmute a participant that have been muted when entering the conference

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I use the attribute muted=true to mute all participants joining a conference like it's described here

https://www.twilio.com/docs/voice/twiml/conference#attributes-muted

It works and all participants are muted. Now I wonder how to allow each user to individually unmute using the Twilio Voice SDK on Android.

It weird because when receiving the call, call.isMuted is false even if the call is muted. Then, when trying to unmute the call with call.mute(false) nothing happens and the call is still muted.

When muting a participant via the conference TWIML, there is no way to unmute it later? Is there a way for each participant to know if he has been muted? And if yes, how he can unmute?

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1 Answers

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Twilio evangelist here. 👋

You can use the conference participants API for that. 

    Participant participant = Participant.updater(
            "CFXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
            "CAXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX")
        .setMuted(true).update();

The docs implement several resources with code examples on how to mute or do other actions with participants.

Hope that helps. :)