Headphone audio levels notification warning

I also tried this and it seemed to work.

Go to the Health app and find the 'Show All Data' button. You can go Browse>Hearing, or tap any of the notifications regarding Headphone Audio Levels. Scroll down, you DON'T want 'Show More Data', you want 'Show ALL Data.' It should show a list of dates with Dbs. Press Edit, then 'Delete All'.

It will start tracking your listening levels again straightaway, but I haven't had any new notifications since I started deleting the data. iPhone 7 iOs 14.2

I’ve been having this same issue! I have an iPhone 12 Pro Max and it does this, it couldn’t be anymore infuriating if it tried. I literally run all Apple, iPad MacBook, Apple Watch, iPhone and headphones and I’m seriously considering going away from Apple because of this, I use my phone in a tractor all day that’s connected to hands free and the volume is controlled by the stereo, but my phone still decides to turn the music down. What I don’t get is where Apple get off on thinking that they have the right to tell us how loud we can listen to something, even worse that you pay £1200 for a phone that you can’t turn such a stupid ‘feature’ off. Sort it out apple!!!

on another note I have figured out that if you delete the history in health for the last 7 days manually it sorts the problem for a short time, but you have to keep clearing the history every couple of days to stop it from happening! Genuinely might buy a Samsung and I never thought I’d say that...

Apple branded headphones and airpods cannot override the safety controls to protect the user’s hearing

Third party headphones can be defined as speakers and override the safety but I would not recommend it as sound levels over 80dB are going to cause hearing damage.

The override is specifically to avoid speakers being mistaken for headphones and drop the volume unnecessarily.

It will not help. It does not stop the 7-day decibel exposure warning and volume drop.

The bluetooth setting to change the device type to Speaker is the fix

as from 14.4

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.

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

(But not for Apple earphones)

Update!! So I scheduled a call with apple about this, purely because it is causing me more issues. On the phone with the advisor she told me that the so called ‘feature’ can not be disabled completely, so I left a complaint and it has been sent up to the senior advisors, as I explained to the ‘genius’ i completely understand that the feature has to be on there under new government guidelines, but it should be user preference to be able to turn such a thing off. I have spoken with a couple of Samsung users that I know and there phones do the same thing, only difference is, they can turn it off. Sort it out apple I’m getting sick of turning my music back up now 🙄

Indeed you are correct, I had the Samsung Active 2 watch and it didn't apply the EU Regulation in the way Apple have chosen to.

Samsung simply would start the volume off low from time to time when you initiated the music function but once you turned it up you were left to listen unhindered, never did I have to keep playing around with the volume in the way I have to with the Apple watch, my advice if Apple don't sort this out would be to use another brand, the EU regulations say nothing about constantly turn down the volume of the users device, it simply speaks about the upper limit and that a warning must be in place, no where does it say turn down the volume of the device every 30 minutes.

Samsung have proven it can be implemented without causing unecessary distress, harm and frustration, Apple have over-reached themselves and they must make the correction or will likely face a class action lawsuit.

iOS 14.4 has been released today, and it now offers some limited means of disabling the option. If you go to the Bluetooth settings and click the blue "i" to the right of your connected headphones/speaker/whatever, you may get a menu allowing you to select a Device Type. Set it to Speaker or Other (or at least not to Headphone), and supposedly the volume will no longer be measured.

From what I have heard, Apple earphones do not allow changing the device type this way. I have none to check this.

The headphone jack seems to be stuck with obligatory monitoring, but it is a dying breed, and a Lightning adapter is a workaround to disable warnings for wired headphones.

Something I haven’t seen mentioned but should be is that you can go into your Bluetooth settings, hit the info button for each device, and make sure that any non-headphone device is classified correctly. In mine almost everything was classified as a headphone including my Bluetooth speakers. This ended the warning/volume change on my Bluetooth speaker, which was the only place that this automatic warning level setting would kick in.

For the record, this nannying infuriated me, it’s well outside of a manufacturer’s domain to get involved in this type of user’s choice.

Sorry you are right, I didn’t notice you were referring to an October post when nobody including community specialists knew what was going on.

Look at Angelinifirenze’s post two above yours.

Change the bluetooth type

Thats a good question, unfortunately I can't answer or

else they will make me suffer penalties. Ya know? Like Facebook sends people to jail. Yeah. Apple is no different.

But i have a fix for you & its ez doesn't involve guns to shoot the phone, no, this works.

on your eyephone (better name because it see's you it KNOWS you) go to settings/ Bluetooth...there is a new button called "car stereo" 🙄😋😝clever name. If u don't see it update your phone over wifi or free wifi

ok start again....

settings/ bluetooth/ (find your device) click on info tag at right/

You will see a new entry called "device type" click to open thise options / next pick one that fits

car stereo, hearing aid, headphones, etc

that should do it. Did for me.

In Bluetooth settings you should see this for any bluetooth device except apple earphones

Pick any one except headphone to stop the notifications

Try going into the health app and deleting all the 'hearing' records - not sure if it works yet, but it has reset all of my warnings back to zero so I am hopeful I can use my phone in my car again! - Health app > Hearing > 7 day record > Data sources & access > (iphone name).

This feature is frustrating plus it cannot be turned off!

“These notifications cannot be turned off due to regulations and safety standards”

“Exposure limits are based on the safe listening guidelines set by the WORLD HEALTH ORGANiZATION”

WHATS NEXT? THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SAYS ITS A HEALTH RISK TO USE YOUR PHONE MORE THAN 5 HOURS. SO NOW AFTER 5 HOURS OF USAGE YOUR PHONE TURNS OFF???????????????