Per conversation with @vic.yang on topic: Dial-out phone users joining unmuted issues it looks like there is a feasibility for creating a muteUponStartAudio method for a session-wide automatic muting of users’ audio when they start audio for the first time.
This is extremely useful for phone audio users on a video sdk call in which if they connect to the call without an active websocket connection to the web app ( say if they’ve backgrounded the web app on their iphone ) there is actually no way to mute this phone user. Even with the ability to mute a phone user when they join if they are connected to the websocket its a strange behavior to have to manually intercept and mute.
Let me know if any other information/context is needed but this method would simplify a lot of potential edge cases and non-edge cases in which manual mute intervention is necessary and sometimes not available.