Since the latest update, my iPhone keeps on lowering volume when listening to musing both with bluetooth earbuds and speakers. I get a notification telling me I've exceeded the limit and that volume has been reduced. The health app tells me that this cannot be disabled. Is this really a "feature" that cannot be turned off? I'm frustrated beyond belief.
iPhone SE, iOS 14
I just did the steps and it worked, got them from Apple , turned off in Settings, you can prevent changes to the maximum headphone volume. Go to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Reduce Loud Sounds, then select Don’t Allow.
Make sure screen time is active and then follow the steps
I just did the steps and it worked, got them from Apple , turned off in Settings, you can prevent changes to the maximum headphone volume. Go to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Reduce Loud Sounds, then select Don’t Allow.
Make sure screen time is active and then follow the steps
It is fixed in ios14.4
Go to bluetooth settings
Remove the device
Pair it again
Tap on the (i) and select Speaker
Update to 14.4. Introduces drop down list to state BT audio device type. Problem solved.
Only thing working for me is to reset BT sound levels data in health app. But this needs to be done very time the stupid thing goes off again. Thanks to the EU idiots we now have a very expensive BT audio device that goes off at random intervals.
Am not happy, to say the least.
How to clear all Health data from your iPhone
Update to 14.4.
Problem fixed.
Read the last few posts and get up to date. It is fixed in 14.4
If anyone is so hard of hearing they need louder headphones then just buy non-Apple BT headphones and set them as speakers in settings.
(At your own risk.)
It was already explained to you that Apple does not participate here, so saying things like, "seriously Apple please add an option to turn off soon" is not received by Apple.
When you are connected to Bluetooth, understand that Bluetooth headphones and speakers use the same Bluetooth profile to connect and therefore the iPhone has no idea what is connected to the phone, so they are all treated the same way. Use the feedback link I provided you on December 10 to provide feedback to Apple to let them know what you think of this.
Apple just gave me the steps below and it worked no more reduction https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-screen-time-for-a-family-member-iph7f15d92dd/14.0/ios/14.0 turned off in Settings, you can prevent changes to the maximum headphone volume. Go to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Reduce Loud Sounds, then select Don’t Allow.
I’m having the same issue and frustrations. You should write a feedback submission here https://www.apple.com/feedback/
Same issue here and has happened when I have been cycling as well as driving. Good news, Apple is saving my hearing but forcing me to mess with my phone while driving or cycling putting me at risk for an accident. Thanks Apple!
Apple,
Health app keeps turning off my headphones. Utterly useless and extremely annoying!! Please for the love of god, give us the option to disable it or uninstall it!! smh.
What are you going to do about to rectify this????
Yours faithfully,
Another ****** off customer
This is a user to user support forum and Apple does not participate here. If you wish to provide feedback to Apple regarding a change you would like to see, or report a bug, then use the feedback link here, Feedback - iPhone - Apple
Me too. It seems the phone can’t tell the difference between earphones and external
Bluetooth speakers. As a result when I
riding the volume on my Apple Watch ALSO goes down and I miss calls. Then I have to remember to turn volume up later. Perhaps there could be a way to designate Bluetooth speakers as “headphones” or “external
speakers”.
This feature is so annoying. Apple have no idea just how useless this is. It does not not take into account every item that can be plugged into the iPhone that died not sit in the ear. I.e I have a pillow speaker that sits under a pillow so when I try to sleep the ‘radio’ plays away.
as it is under a pillow the volume is on full. But what I actually get is a low level in the background. Now however The idiots in California think my radio is too loud and every night it is automatically turned down - when I wake during the night I have to grapple with the iPhone and turn the volume back up ... please allow the adults in the room to control what they have paid over the odds for and made you folk in California so rich!!!
I want to control my own sound!!!!!
Nanny has been tied down in this particular case. You can override it in 14.4
No need to turn it off.
And no I don’t want the phone to automatically detect my non Apple headphones as headphones because I want to set them as speakers as I am hard of hearing.
Health App keeps lowering volume of BT speaker and earbuds to 50%
