How to turn off Headphone Safety on iPhone

If you couldn't find it under health app, then I am surprised.

Please check under these

Try --> Settings > Music > [If not found]

Try this

Type Headphone in the search box of settings and see the option available. See the pic below

Apple recently updated a Support Article on this topic. Actually, this came with iOS 14.4.

Turn headphone notifications on or off

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPod touch.
2. Tap Sounds & Haptics, then tap Headphone Safety.
3. Turn Headphone Notifications on or off.*

You can also turn on Reduce Loud Sounds to automatically lower your headphone volume when it exceeds your set decibel level.

*Due to regulations and safety standards, headphone notifications can't be turned off in certain countries or regions.

This indicates the assertion the option to turn this setting off is not correct. It does appear that in some countries and regions the setting cannot be turned off.

Did you buy your phone in a region or list your region in your phone as one which would prevent you from turning this setting off?

Read the full support article here --> Headphone notifications on your iPhone, iPod touch, or Apple Watch - Apple Support

This is what I received from a senior advisor from Apple:

Your support Advisor has a follow-up message for you.

Headphone notifications are mandatory and cannot be turned off on new

devices shipping with iOS 14.2 in Canada, the European Union, Israel,

South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United

Kingdom, and the United States.

For previously purchased devices

in mandated countries or regions, customers can turn this feature on or

off. However, if a customer erases and re-installs their device after

iOS 14.2 ships, the Headphone Notifications feature will be on by

default and can't be turned off.

Bottom line: We're forced to live under a audio nanny.

Jackson_UK wrote:

The “headphone” notification keeps coming up whilst I’m using a lightening to 3.5mm adapter with my car stereo. Beginning to get very annoying.

Ouch, I seemed to be safe from this when doing the same, maybe I need to recheck. Did you press "other device" when it asked you if you just plugged in headphones? If it did not ask you, maybe you used the same adapter with headphones earlier? The iPhone remembers the setting for each adapter, but you can change this in Headphone Safety->Lightning Adapters. You can reset the data for all adapters the phone has seen, or if there is an adapter plugged in you should see a "Connected to headphones" slider that you can disable. According to its description text this will disable the health monitoring for that adapter.

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Nov 11, 2020 11:25 AM in response to bondo86

Try this:

Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Reduce Loud Sounds - If Allow is checked, change it to Don't Allow.

Then go to Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Headphone Safety and make the adjustment there which was missing

Instead of being infuriated, perhaps you could have read beyond the first post to see Apple released an update yesterday (iOS 14.4), which now gives you the ability to designate that speaker as a speaker as opposed to headphones.

Read this link --> Headphone notifications on your iPhone, iPod touch, or Apple Watch - Apple Support

I can confirm what others are saying, I'm in UK, did the update and told the phone using the 'i' on Settings > Bluetooth that my headphones were speakers. The app has stopped collecting data so will no longer turn my volume down.

Happy days!

To take off Headphone Safety (UK user):

You must be on 14.4 or later.

in the Bluetooth settings for the device, go to the information and change the device type to Speakers.

Now waiting for Apple iPhones to be able to connect to two headsets, or two stereo speakers over Bluetooth.

I tried all the options here and there is no option, even in the US, at least on IOS14.4.2.

What does work is going into bluetooth settings, clicking on your devices, and changing the device type from headphone to speaker. It also had my speaker set to headphone so I fixed that as well.

Apparently this option cannot be turned off on any new ios device that was sold with ios 14.2 or later, this is from a Tier 2 Apple tech that I spoke to.

I think I have a workaround that seems to be bypassing the safety pop-up and automatic volume reduction.

Go to Settings > Bluetooth

Tap on the ⓘ for your device and select Device Type

Choose Other as the device type

I have third party BT headphones and I was able to make it though an entire gym session without the Headphone Safety interfering. Not sure if this will work for Apple/Beats headphones that self identify their device type.

Thanks for posing this because it is not straightforward, and the lengths gone to keep hidden in settings especially since it’s unrelated to Health App & Sound & Haptics Notifications:

If in US/ Resident of Country not required to have headphones safety alerts, follow this Path:

Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual > Headphone Notifications (Switch to Toggle Off) Pop-up Window > Select ‘Turn off’ to confirm stop Headphones Safety notifications

And you’re welcome Beautiful People,

Now go Listen to your Jams at whatever Decibel you soever choose❣️

Try this:

Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Reduce Loud Sounds - If Allow is checked, change it to Don't Allow.

Then go to Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Headphone Safety and make the adjustment there which was missing

The trick I’ve been using is going into Settings > Bluetooth, then tapping the info button for your device(s). Tap ‘Device Type’ and change it to ‘Other’ and you’re done! It should eliminate the pesky notification for good

Apple updated their support page with regards to this feature on Jan 26th. See how things work now:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211903

Settings -> Bluetooth -> open the info for your headphones. Then set the Device Type to Other. Then iOS won’t measure the volume and the notifications should stop.