Headphone audio levels notification warning

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We understand that you need to stop your device from automatically warning you about the volume and adjusting your audio levels.

To change this setting, go to Settings > Sound & Haptics. Select Reduce Loud Sounds and then turn that feature off. This should prevent both the warning and the automatic adjustment. This article has more info:

Adjust the volume on iPhone - Apple Support

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To deactivate this setting, go to Settings, go to Sounds & Haptics, then press Headphone Safety.

Here deactivate Headphone Notifications and Reduce loud sounds.

If you use an Apple Watch and you have Spotify installed on it, you may need to repeat these steps in the Watch app on iPhone or directly into the Settings app on your Apple Watch.

Since iOS 14 the device type can be changed in the bluetooth section. Go to Settings > Bluetooth and touch the little blue i to the right of your device It will allow you to categorise it as Car Stereo, Headphones, Hearing aid, Speaker or Other. Only Headphones will reduce the phones volume. However, the problem persists if you're using a cable either direct from a 3.5mm socket or via a Lightening dongle

Hi,

This was happening with my Bluetooth car stereo and would turn down while I was driving and the notification would cover my google maps and not go away, which was very irritating. My phone assumed the Bluetooth device was headphones. If your headphones/device is Bluetooth you can go into your Bluetooth settings click on the ‘i’ next to your headphones and change the type to stereo or speaker and it should stop notifying you and turning down the music.

If your headphones aren’t Bluetooth you can also just stop it from turning down the music but it will still notify you that it’s too loud by going to ‘sounds and haptics’ in settings, then ‘headphone safety’ and turn off ‘reduce loud sounds’

hope this helps!

As I understand it you can turn it off for bluetooth devices. Pair your device, go to the bluetooth settings and touch the little blue i to the right of the device you're using. This will give you the option to define the Device Type as Car Stereo, Headphones, external speaker or just 'Other' Anything other than Headphones will disable the feature which has annoyed us for months.

You need to have iOS 14.4

Still a bugger if you're using a cable tho :( Sad Face apple!

Enjoy

This thread us about bluetooth output devices not plug in headphones

Update to latest ios (now 14.5.1)

Delete the connection in Bluetooth Settings and add it back. Tap on the (i) and change the type to Speaker.

Hey to all in the comment section I figured out how to turn it off, you have to start from accessibility < audio/visual < Headphone notifications. Turn that tab off

So I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but it seems somewhere in one of the iOS releases (I'm on 14.4 as I post this), the feature was added to categorize a Bluetooth device as a Car Stereo, Headphone, Hearing Aid, Speaker, or Other appears to have fixed this auto-dimming "feature". Please select your device type with caution is all I will further add.

In the last few days Apple released 14.4 to the public and 7.03 to the public, if you have these updates installed you should find the volume is no longer decreased, though you will still receive the notifications.

If you have already installed these updates and it it still happening then depending on which device it is the following applies...

iPhone: Go into settings, bluetooth, scroll down to your connected headphones (bluetooth device) and tap on the little i in a circle symbol, from there you should be able to see a menu which allows you to classify the type of bluetooth device...options availiable are speaker, headphone, other etc.

If your headphones are third party, i.e not Apple branded, then you can simply re-classify your heaphones as a speaker or even pick other to avoid the volume drop.

Unfortunately at the time of writing this I believe Apple branded headphones do not allow for this re-classification therefore unfortunately you will continue to see (hear) your volume drop down whenever the volume notification is triggered.

Watch OS: There is no option to re-classify your headphones, however no longer does the volume drop when you receive the notification, you simply are just reminded that your audio is "too loud" whilst not being a perfect solution it is nevertheless a fantastic improvement on having your volume dropped without your consent. If you have Apple branded headphones I can only speculate as to whether you would continue to see a drop in volume performance but I imagine that if there is no work-around on the phone then its a possibility there isn't this work-around on the watch....

If anyone out there can confirm or deny how the Apple branded pods are performing regrds the recent update that would be great.

Hope this helps.

I too was having this hideous issue with the sound dropping out, in order to protect my hearing. As a fitness group exercise instructor, it was driving me and my participantes bonkers, as I wasn’t using headphones, I was using a Bluetooth speaker....Anyway here in the UK after the IOS 14 software update, an option in the settings appeared, asking me to tick the box... are you using, headphones, speakers or you in car stereo. And now my volume no longer drops out when I tick the speaker box. Thanks for sorting it Apple.

As everyone else said recently it was fixed in ios14.4

Delete the connection in Bluetooth Settings and add it back. Tap on the (i) and change the type to Speaker.

I am 70 years old and I managed to work it out.

I just found the solution!!! Go to Settings-Bluetooth- tap on your device, and then tap on “i” sign. That is where you can choose between whether it’s a speaker/car stereo/ headphone/hearing aid!

Update to ios 14.6

Unpair the device in bluetooth settings

Pair it again

Tap the (i) in the circle

Select something other than headphones like Car stereo

Hey to all in the comment section I figured out how to turn it off, you have to start from accessibility < audio/visual < Headphone notifications. Turn that tab off

I just found a setting that should help this. In Bluetooth, you can now classify the device as a "car stereo" or "speaker" and it says it will adjust the notifications.