iPhone 11 volume low

So I was having the same issue and I went to sound and haptics and then I went to headphone safety and turned off the reduce loud sound and the volume was back to the normal loudness.

It was the volume limit. I solved it for my iPhone 11 pro max. The sound was really low when using headphones. So I went to Settings/Music/Playback/Volume Limit and dragged the slider all the way up. Then went back to the music app and raised the volume.

My iPhone was restored from an old backup that was in iCloud.

I’m seeing the same behavior. Speaker volume randomly “sticks” at a nearly inaudible level and cannot be changed. Pressing either of the volume buttons does change the on-screen slider up and down as expected, but the speaker volume doesn’t change. There is no visible indication that the phone is stuck in headphones mode. When it gets in this condition, I have tried turning off Bluetooth, closing all apps as well as all of the recommendations in this forum thread. None of them work for me. The only way I have found to correct it is to restart the phone. After the restart, it works fine for a random period of time (anywhere from a couple of days to sometimes a whole week). I have resorted to restarting my phone every morning in hopes that prevents it from happing during business hours (I rely on this phone for my business clients).

This sort of behavior from a $1K+ flagship device is absolutely unacceptable! (A similar situation to this is precisely why I dumped my Windows phone years ago.) Apple, if you’re listening, you’re making the Samsung handsets look better and better every time this happens!

This started happening to me about 1 month ago, could barely hear people on a call unless it was on speaker phone. Tried all the sound setting fixes and updates but didn't work. Thought for sure my earpiece speaker was busted but decided to try to clean it out with a clean toothbrush and screen cleaner and IT WORKED!!! Give it a try, hopefully it's just dirt/sweat build up....

Thanks for your reply. I found that removing the cover and re-starting the iphone solved the problem. Given that lots of other people seem to have had the problem, i'm surprised that Apple haven't fixed the bumper guard/cover problem.

Been having the same issue / started when I got an I watch / maybe coincidence.

manual switch power off also not working.

Forced power off from :

Settings/ General/ Power off

This reset the sound on speakers to previous acceptable levels

I took my iphone to a third party repair store linked with apple and they used anti static brushes to clean my iphone speakers. it has been fine after it, and I can hear the other person now

I had the volume issue on bluetooth speakers being low. Could not figure out why. Finally went to Settings>Sounds & Haptics>Headphone Safety and deselected Reduce Loud Sounds. Fixed!

It is when you look into the phone and have Face ID on it is low, cause the phone recognizes you. Put your phone at a distant and turn your volume up it rings normal. Then pick it up and tell someone to call you, it rings low

I fixed it! I read in other forums that if you still had your plastic on the screen (while waiting for cover to arrive) it might affect the volume. It did. I took it off. Tried it out and it worked! Volume is great. Even got too loud, because I put it to Max on the volume buttons before as I could not hear the person on the other line at all.

Hope this helps!

Hi

I had the same issue and I switch off the phone for few minutes and switch it on again, Luckily it is been OK since after that. Only happened once not after that.

I an in UK.

UPDATE: I was hoping this would be addressed by the IOS 13.5.1 update. It may have fixed the random low ringer volume level. I say "may" because I've made it a habit to power cycle the device every morning before work. So far, power cycling the device is the only way to get the volume back to normal once it gets "stuck." There is still an issue with the phone's feedback volume (e.g. key clicks when typing and other app sounds while the phone is unlocked). Now instead of sticking at the lowest level, the volume is now sticking at random volume levels, more often than not it now sticks at full volume. Power cycling the device is the only way to correct this situation.

In addition, texting while using a Bluetooth speaker frequently forces the volume up to maximum. I can try to reduce the volume using either the volume control on the Bluetooth speaker or the device's volume control. In both cases, I see the volume slider move down as if the volume is being changed. And, in some cases the volume level is reduced as expected. However, after typing a few more text characters, the volume jumps back to maximum along with the slider. I can turn the volume down again, but after a few characters, the cycle repeats. These ongoing volume level issues are extremely frustrating.

Apple, if you're listening to your customers, please fix these issues (or at the very least let us know you're aware of them and are working on a solution)!

Every time that I was getting an incoming call and picked up my phone to answer the ringer volume would decrease. So I went to YouTube for answers and it turn out that Face ID will decrease the volume of any alerts including phone calls. Here’s the link for the YouTube video. Hope it helps!!

https://youtu.be/0VFKCSzL_TA

Did you try cleaning i with a brush and resetting? Worked for me. I agree with your frustration. I was ready to bail out on Apple too.

Apple has a 14 day change of mind refund policy. If I were you I'd return that phone, get a refund, then buy another unit. With any luck you won't have the issue with the next unit as it seems that not all units are affected, however, I think you'd struggle to get Apple to swap out your current unit since it's likely s software issue.