iPhone ringer volume keeps turning down

I have the same issues with both my Ford vehicles using Sync with our iPhones. It's definitely not just a GM thing. Enter vehicle, volume drops...exit vehicle, volume remains low and requires manual turning up. This issue has gone on for far too long!

This is definitely a manufacturer’s decision. I don’t know why, I’ve been told different this from my local dealer. Just why does the manufacturer decide how you use your Bluetooth. (To much control)!!!!!!!

Hi,

This issue is happening in my phone as well. I’m using an iPhone 8 Plus. I’d like to point out to something in your post that you’ve asked:

-Do you have any wired, or Bluetooth headphones connected to your iPhone when you notice this behavior? If so, when you disconnect the headphones, does the behavior remain?

I’ve noticed that after I disconnect a call that I received using my AirPods, the ringer goes down to pretty much nothing. Restarting doesn’t solve the problem. I’m missing a lot of calls due to this. I recently upgraded to iOS 13.4 but that hasn’t helped. Please suggest a way to get this solved.

Thanks

Ankit

Every time my phone connects to the Bluetooth in the car, it’s like it’s being controlled by the car volume for a second and gets set pretty low instantly.

I also noticed when Bluetooth or headphones are connected the volume indicator bar pops up to let you know which volume the phone is at every 20 seconds.

I have an iPhone X, every morning my ringer volume “decreases” to 25% or lower. The normal volume by contrast will “increase” every morning, and I have to turn that down. The alarm volume periodically drops to where I can’t hear it in the morning. I’m running the most current update and I’ve turned off the change with buttons option. But every morning I have to change my ringtone & sound volume back to the settings I had the day before. I have an iWatch 5, if that might have anything to do with it. The problem started about the time I got my iWatch in October/November.

This is happening to me to, with iOS 13.5.

There is a bug in the Music app. (I found out about this in other online forums). It can reproduced as follows: Start playing music. Lock the phone. On the Lock Screen, pause the music. Now if you adjust volume using the side buttons, the volume of Ringer and Alerts is changed (even if you have disabled Change With Buttons in Settings).

I've definitely pinned it down to my Apple CarPlay in my Ford F-150. I've noticed it doesn't do it when I don't use my truck or don't plug it into CarPlay. It seems to go to 25% when I do plug it in. It doesn't matter whether I use the Music app or not. Seems to be a change in the last iOS update. Mine is an iPhone 8+.

My iPhone XR keeps lowering the volume on its own. I get a call and the volume just goes down on its own. I’ve tried to everything and nothing works. I’ve also looked up online to see what I could do. I’ve tried their recommendations and they don’t work. What could be the problem? Also, not all my calls go through. Calls drop. I can’t hear the person or they can’t hear me. Please let me know what to do.

My Ford doesn’t have blue tooth or any other way to connect to my iPhone so this is not a vehicle related issue Since my iPhone 7 does the volume reduction to me all the time. My phone self adjusts whether or not I am using Bluetooth. I maybe a couple of weeks between connecting to another device and I often turn Bluetooth off when not using it.

Apple needs to fix this. Like many others, I use my phone as an alarm clock and get emergency response notifications through my phone.

My Ford F-150 has both bluetooth and Apple CarPlay. I disconnected my phone from bluetooth, but still use CarPlay. This seems to have solved the volume issue for me. It doesn't sound like there is a single fix for everyone, but you might want to try disconnecting the car's bluetooth and see it that helps.

Once again, I DO NOT connect my iPhone to my vehicle. I do not know what CarPlay is.

I witnessed my volume decrease last night last night after my post when I connected to my Bose A20 but the reduction seems to happen more often than when I fly and that is the only time I use Bluetooth. I am not normally looking at my phone when the headset gets power but last night I forgot to enable Bluetooth beforehand and was looking at the Bluetooth connections when it connected. At the same time it connected the ringer volume flashed on screen and showed 25% or less. Apple needs to fix or my next phone will be likely be Android. As a first responder I need my ringer at full volume 100% of the time without having to worry about remembering to check and reset at random.

Yes I agree; this in my opinion is an Apple software issue. Anytime I connect to Bluetooth my volume automatically lowers. It is really annoying in that I too miss calls because the volume level stays at lower levels once leaving the Bluetooth device or vehicle

Hey man,

Your issue sounds similar to mine.

perhaps turn off Attention Aware Feature.

Settings > Face ID and Passcodes> Attention Aware Feature

I noticed my volume indicator would be changing as I’m looking at Maps on my phone while connected to my Bluetooth.

Could you also check that you have ringer volume “change with buttons” turned off too.

Setting > Sounds and Haptics > Change with button.

See if the combination those 2 settings off makes a difference.

iPhone 7 doesn’t have the attention aware “feature” (thankfully). I had to disable that on my girlfriend’s XR to fix a different problem she was having. I think the programmers are just causing problems for job security. Of course it would be nice if they would actually fix some of the problems they cause instead of just adding to them. I don’t believe this is a bug. I think it was one of their “improvements” or it would have been fixed already.