tips for teams meeting w airpods

anybody have any tips for how to discretely take a meeting on teams with airpods and just keep the phone in my pocket? Without unmuting?

Bc u can’t lock the phone while in a meeting, the screen defaults to how iphones look during. a regular call, with buttons to unmute and end the call. Also have seen that when u take an airpod out, for example if someone came irl to talk to you, the audio out starts coming from iphone rather than airpods? Anyways to circumvent ?

Thanks in advance