Hi, does anybody know how to turn the headphone safety setting off on the new iso update???
cheers.
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iPhone 11, iOS 14
Apple recently updated a Support Article on this topic. Actually, this came with iOS 14.4.
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
You can’t anymore and tbh if this isn’t changed on my next upgrade I’ll be leaving apple. This is a joke they don’t enforce it on android they allow you to
choose.
Sadly the only help you’ll get here regarding this is to provide feedback to Apple via this link :-(
So I guess that's the end of the road for this post. It's a USA model, provisioned with this awful feature that cannot be removed.
It's no longer in beta. It was released publicly today.
Go to Settings > General > Software Update and download 14.4
Update to 14.4 and pretty much any Bluetooth device apart from Apple headphones can be set to not reduce.
I read someone said to go into the Health app, and delete the records on audio, see photo. Seems to work for me. The only way is to delete all on regular basis.
Go to "Classify your Bluetooth audio device."
This functionality only exists in iOS 14.4 and beyond.
Set up and listen to Bluetooth devices on iPhone - Apple Support
Do you have a little blue ‘i’ next to it in Bluetooth settings? Click it!
Setting > Notifications > turn off health notifications
Look at the post above yours for Bluetooth devices.
With wired headphones and Apple headphones it cannot be removed.
Settings - sounds & haptics - headphone safety - lighting adapters - turn “connected to headphones” off - sound still works for me and no data sent to health app
Thanks again for responding
I have followed your steps but I don’t have that option in Headphone Safety nor that option in Health. I’ve just deleted all data in the hearing section of Health to see if that helps. I’m on an iPhone 11.
I never heard about any Android users complaining about this. Can you point me to the relevant setting on Android with a screenshot? This is not a EU regulation. It's a WHO "recommendation". It was never enacted into law. EU restriction ALLOWS people to change their decibels from 85 to 100 if they *choose* to.
I talked about this annoying setting since the beta of 14.2.
On my side, I downgraded to 14.1 (iPhone X). It's impossible with my car, bluetooth receveiver and speakers with this new "functionnality".
I hope it will be improved quickly...
Sawyerclark21 wrote:
I’m a electrician and I need to have my music loud while connected to my job site speaker. I just bought an iPhone SE last week and this safety measure is such a pain while working on a job site. Would be great if it was an option for some people to turn this off instead of having their volume turn down every half hour.
You should tell Apple:
How to turn off Headphone Safety on iPhone
