AirPods Notifications are EXTREMELY LOUD, while other sounds are not

Yes, please fix this! I literally threw my AirPod across the room when I got a shrill text alert while listening to peaceful music. Not cool.

I fully agree and sent in yet another request to Apple for this to be fixed. You are correct it is a design flaw and what is really disappointing is that they chose to carry this design flaw into the Airpod Pro even with so much user feedback on how bad that design is. Apple stands for excellence in thinking through the user experience and this is a clear example of total failure on that score. It’s not okay that we have to adjust the phone ring volume up and down each and every time we insert an Airpod into our ear. There isn’t even an Automation/Shortcut option for users to workaround this flaw until they finally decide to fix it.

Apple, your user community has explained this problem to you for several years now. PLEASE fix it ASAP.

By the way, you can ignore the helpful posts asking you to reset the AirPods and reset the phone... nothing changes with reset because this is a fundamental flaw in the software design of the AirPods and the airpod pros. There is a solution, but its an insane use case.. every time you insert the headphone, go to settings and turn down the ringer volume. That will fix the loud alerts but it also means that when you take out the AirPods, you will likely miss phone calls and alerts because the volume of the phone has been turned down in settings. It makes no sense at all.

It’s really stupid. The best I’ve been able to do is make a Siri automation that every time my phone connects to the airpods, it reminds me to turn on vibrate via a notification. It’s working out alright, obviously it’s not the real solution though.

This problem does not just apply to AirPods or other Apple headphone products. I use a set of Sony Bluetooth headphones. The phone volume does not adjust when I connect them and my ears get blasted by extreme volume. It’s not the same as when iPhones intuitively changed to a lower volume when we used plug in headphones with 3.5mm. For some reason, the iPhone doesn’t recognize when I connect the Bluetooth and doesn’t change the volume accordingly.

The other issue I have is the volume for notifications such as texts does not come from the phone speakers when Bluetooth headphones are connected. So if I set my headphones down I never know a text is coming through because the alert only goes to the headphones.

And the notification volume is too loud even though my media volume is adjusted lower and my ringer volume is adjusted lower.

Apple has an issue with volume control whether they like to admit it or not. And even if they don’t admit it, I would really like to see more user control over volume in the near future.