Apple volume turned down when using headphones

because they think they are our parents.

as said in this thread, use the feed back form, speak to technical, tweet to tim cook, email him as well. the more voices we have telling them this is wrong and dangerous the further up the todo list it will go to get this sorted out

Worst feature ever. Most of the time im listing speakers, not headphones. Them when i put my helmet on with headphones i get the stupid volume limit popup. I refuse to driven by some World Heath Org. edict!!!!

This is just one step too far. Glad I still have my Samsung Note 10 plus with the Hidizs USB DAC adapter. Music sounds like a night club which is personally what I want.

Corporations have become too powerful and are now dictating what people want to do with their own device. Not a chance Apple and I hope you lose a lot of customers over this.

Possibly they will again, but I have had Samsung devices since the Galaxy S. They went through a stage (S2 onwards) of lowering overall volume in the EU but after a few years they dropped it and went back to normal. It was easy to root the devices to hack the volume but there's no need to do that with the current ones.

As I stated, you can use a USB C DAC with the Samsungs to greatly increase the volume but you can't do that on the iphone because Apple still use their proprietary out of date connector.

Like Peter, I changed the settings also. That has no effect. Another part of the problem is that the software does not distinguish between headphones and my Bluetooth connection to my car. The car speakers work best when the volume is turned up on the phone. It’s irritating as ****.

@apple mods, that was not a poll or petition that was a passing on of the info already in this thread.

please reinstate my reply as telling people how to raise an issue should not be against the guide lines.

Someone said that it will still show notification, but not lower volume. Is this true if you classify as headphones? Or do you need to classify everything as "speaker" or "car" to avoid volume lowering.

Same here. Tried all mentioned remedies. In my case all of these options were already turned off. To add to the annoyance, I don’t even listen through headphones but through wireless speakers that I’m often not that close to. All this annoyance for nothing. Last iPhone I’ll buy if this isn’t changed soon.

I should add that in addition to this volume drop issue is that after an unanswered call, after the volume shifts from my ringer back to my Bluetooth speakers, the volume actually increases dramatically as if a buffer has been removed.

Seems okay now, however my Bluetooth connection keeps dropping in my car, this is dangerous when I’m driving. Contacted apple and on my second iPhone 12 now, no difference still disconnects for no reason (my old iPhone XS MAX still has no issues, and has never had issues connecting to my car this iPhone has the latest 14.4 update too) worse iPhone ever the 12, and it also same with WiFi, I tried turning off and resetting connectivity (5G to Auto & back to 4G) no difference. Terrible, will move away from apple as their lack of support is no good either.

Thank you all for your input. It had not updated to 14.4, which is odd as I have auto updates enabled. However, the reason for that may be connected to something DAZHOOD pointed out, which is that my Iphone 12 pro is also having difficulty getting and staying connected to bluetooth and the web- keep having to turn wifi off in order to use cellular data to listen to podcasts etc, as it remains more reliable than wifi. Back soon with update on the volume drop issue, however bottom line for me is that when I spend $1,000 on Apples latest and greatest I expect these kinds of bugs to be dealt with before it hits the market. Not all bugs, but to have no ability to control the volume or to remain connected to wifi and bluetooth...not cool.

This does not work. I have tried it. I hook up my phone to Bluetooth while driving. I tend to lose my map/ music because of this unnecessary policing by apple.

Will never buy apple again. One of these days I might be at risk while driving trying to increase the bloody volume.

I posted on here and my own post thread last Saturday, I decided to call Apple yet again as having WiFi Bluetooth and 3, 4 and 5G issues with the iPhone 12 Pro Max, I explained my problems and they offered another new iPhone 12 Pro Max, I have had 2 of these phones over a month which I have updated to 14.4, erased, reset connectivity etc and setup and uploaded all my 3rd party apps from scratch, and still not finished that yet and still issues with my second iPhone! So I am sending my present phone back and got myself a shiny new iPhone 11 and guess what, no issues with connectivity in my car and WiFi at home, found the car’s Bluetooth no problems! When I sorted this out with apple over the telephone I can honestly say the didn’t even ask me anything to counter what i discussed with them and offered no action whatsoever on how to resolve the technical issues with the phones I had. To me they just want your money, very disappointed in apple, I hope they read this!

QuickTimeKirk- in this case it's not the what or why...it's the how. It's a fine offering, but a very clumsy delivery. The delivery makes it feel to consumers like these decisions are being made for them... hence this discussion and the many users having the same issue. I see your 101,873 "points" and infer that you're very adept and up to date with these nuances- most Apple users buy Apple so that they don't have to be. I'm a 45 year old, lifetime Apple devotee- this is the first thread I've ever been involved in, which should speak to my point regarding growing frustration.

Well my Galaxy Note 10+ sounds like a nightclub through wired headphones. And the Android 11 update seems to have increased the output by another 10% so it seems to be an Apple thing at present.

Same as putting speed limiters in cars and we know how that would go down with consumers.