How to turn off hearing protection

This is really ******* me off. I am mostly deaf. I called apple support. the rep claimed upgrading to IOS 14.4 from 14.2 would solve the problem. he didn’t seem to know that apple states this cannot be changed. i told him i didn't really want to do that. of course i lost him as i go to update. ( he wanted to adjust it to my hearing aids. THEY SOUND like total crap. i just want to listen without the hearing aids. they won't even stay on. joke. RESound made me 10 different pairs) HE (Apple) WASN'T LISTENING TO ME! So, i thought i would try 12 mini a little longer before i return it. well i tried to listen again today and sure enough as soon as The Unforlgiven comes on I could barely make out what song was playing. some one on here said to try to TURN On reduce loud sounds and turn it up to 100 decibels. Didn't work for me. i can barely hear anything. Thanks again controlling Apple! 

Does anybody know if this will NOT happen on say iOS 13 something. like if i buy a refurbished 11 pro, so i can get BOTH night mode and i can also HEAR MY f MUSIC!!?? THANK YOU!

Don’t SHOUT.

Apple branded head and ear phones will not offer this workaround for obvious legal reasons . Get some other branded phones if you want to exceed WHO health guidelines.

But if you ruin your ears we might have to SHOUT BACK.

I have had this same problem on both my iPhone and iPad. I was able to fix it on my phone, but the iPad will not let me either click on the Reduce Sound Levels (which is greyed out and stuck in ON in light green), nor can I change the Decibel level (greyed out and stuck at 85db). I never listen to headphones, always a bluetooth speaker at varying distances, so I definitely want to override it. Right now I can barely hear anything, whereas on the phone (same bluetooth speaker) I can hear fine now. iPad 6G w 14.4.1. Thank you.

all my speakers are listed as speakers. i even tried to do "OTHER" but that didn't work either, so set them back to speaker. the thing is, i can check between my phone (which doesn't have the stuck greyed out button to reduce loud sounds, but still gives me volume warnings regularly), and my ipad, which is stuck in greyed out mode for reducing loud sounds. the phone connected to the same bluetooth speaker is easily twice as loud as the ipad. so there is def some issue with the ipad being stuck. does ANYBODY know of a solution? i can't play music on my ipad, can barely hear it!! APPLE!! make your stuff work!

Welllll... i would say that brands make no difference, I have skull candy and it’s like comparing apples to apples. Orange you glad I didn’t shout? What we are all shouting for is the blatant fact that this is a human rights issue. Corporation A is not nor should be responsible for my hearing protection. Right? I mean they will allow me to buy something loud line fireworks or firearms without forcing me get earplugs, so what if I am using non Apple earbuds to listen to non Apple Music. They are not the hearing police and have no business impersonating said fictional entity. Open to discussion.

And that my dearest, simply isn’t true. I’ve tried. I’ve removed and reconnected and tried. I’ve removed and restarted my phone and reconnected and tried. I’ve backuped my phone reset to factory settings, reconnected and tried... Simply isn’t true!

When riding my bike, connected to my Senna speakers in my helmet, protecting myself with custom made earplugs, they (apple) still make it their business without options for me to change it!

I am already deaf. I waited years for them to make a phone loud enough I can hear. Then they turn down my classic rock. Classic Rock doesn’t sound good when I can barely hear it!

they can’t ruin my hearing.

PieceofshPOSgoingincircles wrote:

Attitude much? I returned the 12 mini months ago.

So... you're just hanging around the forum complaining about something that no longer directly affects you? Well, I guess everyone needs a hobby.

Thanks for the info.

maybe you are lucky and never been stuck with defective Apple products.

no it is not a hobby. I’ve been trying for eleven months to get new hearing aids that actually work. which when the new pair finally arrives, again, I need a phone. It’s s major pain. To try to get a working product.

maybe you have good hearing and take it for granted.

this is not and games!

PieceofshPOSgoingincircles wrote:

maybe you are lucky and never been stuck with defective Apple products.

I had a screen go bad on my MBP. Apple took care of it. But, you didn't have a defective product. You had a product that was working as designed but that didn't suit your needs. Very different things.

no it is not a hobby. I’ve been trying for eleven months to get new hearing aids that actually work. which when the new pair finally arrives, again, I need a phone. It’s s major pain. To try to get a working product.

You don't have to get an iPhone if they don't suit you.

maybe you have good hearing and take it for granted.

I have a family history of hearing loss which is why I take care of it and why I appreciate the stance Apple has taken.

PieceofshPOSgoingincircles wrote:

It is not a hobby, not fun and not a game.

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why can apps like Volume Boost allow for louder volume (at $10 per month!) but when I go into the Apple Store wearing hearing aids and ask for a volume override so that I can hear my audiobook over the sound of my car engine they just tell me I need to turn my hearing aids louder? Not fair. If I go to my audiologist and get the volume cranked, when an ambulance goes by my ears will be damaged (because my hearing loss is high decibel therefore my hearing aids increase the high decibel range). Grrr

Sadly, hearing aids are not treated the same as other Bluetooth devices, they link via Accessibility in settings. I did try to “Forget this device” and link via regular Bluetooth but they just didn’t show up.

may have turned off the warning for me but not the ability to turn up the volume, guess I'm headed to the audiologists to see if they can increase the hearing aid volume without squeals and great annoyance :(