Alarm volume TOO LOUD in iOS14

Gregp2424 wrote:

Volume used to be independent of the main sounds and hepatic, that does not seem to be the case anymore. Extremely frustrating and hopefully just a temporary bug.

The alarm volume has never been independent of the main volume. People have complained about that for years.

You can let Apple know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

This "shortcut/automation" seems to work on my iphone 6s / ios 14.3; it's worth a try...

-First, in Settings/Sounds/RingersAndAlerts, I have the ChangeWithButtons slider turned On.

-In the Shortcuts app, tap the Automation icon at bottom middle.

• tap "+", then "CreatePersonalAutomation"
• "TimeOfDay", then pick a Daily time that would be prior to whenever your alarm would be set
• "Next", "AddAction"
• in the 'SearchForAppsAndActions' space, type "Set Volume", then tap the "Set Volume" result icon
• tap the nn% number shown, then slide the bar to pick a lower volume level %. Then try it out twice by tapping the SolidArrow icon at bottom right, to play the automation. Then tap "Next"
• scroll to the bottom, and turn Off the "AskBeforeRunning" slidebar. Confirm the "Don'tAsk" popup.
• tap "Done"
• (Open and review your new Personal Automation, making sure the EnableThisAutomation slider is turned On.)

I hope this works for you! Good luck.

i have had the same issue. If you scroll to bottom of this picture I found the culprit. You have to toggle the “change with button” slide to ON under alarms. Otherwise it’s manual. I just did this and it’s now connected to my volume buttons like before. But otherwise it blares. It nearly given me a heart attack foe two days now. Hope it helps.

I have an iPhone 6 and just did the iOS update a couple weeks ago, at which point I was having this problem too, and after about an hour of reading through these posts and trying everyone’s suggestions with no success, I was about to give up. I had one more idea and it seems to be working. Worth a shot.

In Sounds settings, my toggle for “change with buttons” is turned on. Then I used my volume buttons to set the volume to the level I wanted for my alarm. Like you said, once I hit snooze, the second alarm would blare. So, my last idea was to keep the toggle button on, reset the volume back to the level I wanted, and then in the screen below, I noticed the volume level was much higher, so I adjusted that to the same level as I put for my alarm, and tested it out. My alarm went off and the volume did not go up for the second alarm (after snoozing). The ringer and volume bars still pop up on the screen without me doing anything, but the volume level does not change. Hopefully this will help others having the same problem!!

I had the same issue. Make sure under Sound and Haptics the Change with Buttons slider is on. This will allow you to adjust the volume using the side buttons. If not the alarm defaults to the volume in the ringer ad alerts level.

Settings > Sounds and Haptics > Slide this bar all the way to the left

The only other thing I can think of is to reset all of your settings. Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings. It will reset everything in settings back to the factory default. It's annoying to have to redo all of those things but it might resolve your issue.

Kerpie wrote:

IdrisSeabright, I don't think it is helpful to discourage appleuser3791 from following your suggestion to directly lodge the complaint by, in the next breath, telling them that the complaint is not "very common", when in fact the bigger picture complaint is extremely common,

If it were a common complaint, there would be dozens upon dozens of threads about it. There are not.

My point in noting the uncommonness of it was to temper expectations about anything be changed.

Actually I'm having this problem too and is incredibly annoying. Only started two days ago, scared me out so much in the morning when the alarm went off. I will file a Feedback too.

thanks @AppleUser__2020 for opening this thread.

There needs to be a fix for this! I need to not be scared to death when my alarm goes off. At least Android does this well. I am not using the health app as I don’t want any extra features inside the health app and need multiple alarms at different volume levels.

I’m going to have to use an old android phone for now 😂.

The change to button has been my fix for a long time since they introduced bedtime a few years ago but you have to manually keep changing your volume as it’s the same volume for ringtones! They actually turned it off on the last update the tosspots. We need a fix that doesn’t link the sound for the alarm with the ringer. People still need to hear phone calls! Come on apple, be like android 😂 I don’t want to have to attenuate a special tone (or two) in iTunes just to use for alarms at different times of the day surely.

I installed 14.2 yestersay and it happened to me this morning. I tried to figure it out and found out it happens after first alarm. I mean after closing alarm voice automatically goes up. I saw bar changing without me touching volume buttons, and then second alarm naturally become loud. Are we missing some sort of new setting? Something like when alarm goes off it thinks you woke up then gets the volume up so you can hear calls and massages rest of the day.

I couldn't find the solution to this either, but I noticed that it has something to do with the surrounding volumn. For testing, I set up a timer for 1 sec. When it is quiet, the volumn of the ring is low. However, if you make some noise, presumbly talking to the phone, the sound will go up suddenly and return to normal when you stop talking. I reckon it is the AI that causes the issue, hope Apple can fixed the issue soon.

I CAN DUPE THIS!

I've seen this issue since iOS14, and have today finally managed to reproduce it at will.

For *me* it's specific to my EPOS (pka Sennheiser) ADAPT 560 and ADAPT 660 Bluetooth headsets. It doesn't happen on my Poly UC8200.

All I need to do is receive a call on the phone when the headset is paired/active - or not even answer it - and after the call my Sounds & Haptics / Ringer and Alerts volume has jumped from next to zero to anywhere from 50% to 100%, ready to startle me the next time an alarm goes off.

Making a call doesn't do it. It seems to be tied to the incoming ringing volume.

I've separately engaged EPOS support with the details of the dupe.

My environment is an iPhone 8 running iOS 14.2. I'm also permanently paired with an old Apple watch and the phone is permanently in mute (or whatever the term is for when the side switch is activated).

My partner has just upgraded his iPhone [8] SE to 14.2 and with the same headset it doesn't manifest the issue.

I've previously reset all my settings at the behest of Apple support and that didn't do anything (other than give me a lot of settings to have to restore). The phone has NOT been reset to factory.

- G.

I had the same thing happen for me with the alarm volume when upgrading from iPhone SE to 12 mini. Maybe try this:

Settings > Accessibility > Face ID & Attention > Attention Aware Features TURNED OFF