How to turn off Headphone Safety on iPhone

Luckily you can create health data points i the future. The shortcut I build generates one -1000 dB data point as many hours into the future I want. Seeing that the automation stuff doesn’t work I am deciding that having to have a button that generates say 30 days worth of data points in with a single click may be the best way.

Go to the health app and tap on the notification. Then scroll all the way down to show all data. Then delete all the data it has!! I’m testing it out tonight! It does this for my cars Bluetooth so annoying!

Yes unfortunately there is no way to shortcut delete health data points. Everyone needs to send feedback to Apple. They are reading this thread because they took down my post from earlier with the shortcut to add -1000db entries. No big deal because it doesn’t actually resolve the issue but someone at least took the time to flag and I got an email from Apple saying the pulled it down.

I am in the US as well and can’t turn it off. Spent all day trying to

get someone from support to give me a straight answer and “depending on

what IOS your new phone was shipped on that’s what determines if you can

turn it on/off”

THIS IS A LIE!!! My phone SHIPPED with iOS 14.1. I am in the U.S. I had already upgraded my old phone to 14.2 when my new phone arrived. To restore from the backup I had to upgrade my new phone immediately to 14.2. Apple screwed up the transfer of my cell service from my old phone. In an effort to get my cellular data working correctly I tried factory resetting my phone and setting it up again. That was when I lost the ability to control the headphone volume.

There is encouraging news out there but I apparently can't mention it here because the moderators will delete this post again. Go look on the usual Apple blog sites.

Oddly, I never had a problem with Bluetooth in my truck or my wife's van. I think my system is using the Hands Free Bluetooth profile. The other possibility is the stereo is streaming the raw media from the phone and it isn't being streamed as audio. In any case, there is a possibility for an enterprising headphone manufacturer to work around this nonsense.

You can shout at Apple here all you want, but Apple isn't here and isn't reading your post on this user to user only forum. Frankly as only Apple users, it matters not to us if you go to Android or any other platform.

If you want to tell Apple how you feel, you certainly didn't here. Use this link --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

You also might want to read just a few post up from your post (it's clear you didn't bother to read anything past the first post) and see a solution is evidently forthcoming.

danyelle21 wrote:

apple fix this NOW!!!!!

As has been point out repeatedly in this thread, Apple is not reading here. You can submit feedback here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Or, you can contact customer support directly using the Contact Support link at the top right of every page of these forums.

ClasyCrustario wrote:

This is so stupid and beyond overreach. This needs to change I hook my phone up to my car and it always goes down to1 notch while I’m driving and I’ve though something was wrong with my stereo. Apple has overstepped their bounds.

As has been point out repeatedly in this thread, Apple is not reading here. You can submit feedback here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Or, you can contact customer support directly using the Contact Support link at the top right of every page of these forums.

This whole discussion is about that you cannot make any adjustment.

There is a slight chance to make it work as it should again with 14.4.

In meantime I have checked different profiles on 14.4 and couldn't tell if there is any sound quality difference between them. It might be safe workaround for people with headphones wanting to avoid notifications.

V_And_L wrote:

Yes you should be able to tell it your listening on blue tooth speaker or, better yet, should they be able to tell via the bluetooth device information.

No one here in this user-to-user technical support forum can make that happen. And, Apple is not reading here for suggestions of feedback. Use the appropriate place to let Apple know your thoughts:

Product Feedback - Apple

So it appears I can get indeed now set my aftershokz to Car Stereo mode and this utterly ridiculous functionality is no longer triggered. When I get a chance I will ratify which codec is in use but I doubt it changed, for a car you would still want to select the best available.

This seems very unsatisfactory compared to having a toggle to turn it off. Its not intuitive for a start.

This whole debacle is right up there with iTunes deleting all my album art.

Perhaps a year ago, there weren't regulations being put in place requiring manufacturers to do anything about listening levels. Keep in mind regulations have been put in place, which manufacturers if they want to continue selling products, puts them in a position of having to do something. Apple likely doesn't honestly care if you personally want to damage your eardrums to the point you go deaf. That is on you. But clearly they had to implement a change, they just didn't do it very well as admittedly, in this case, the implementation left much to be desired, including explaining this. But people have complained to Apple since iOS 14.2 rolled out which is when this became an issue and today, Apple rolled out an update which should help people a lot.

Has anyone tried setting an actual headphone to car/speaker/other and see if it logs any data?

I have tested an bt speaker and a car and it does not log data, which is great.

curious if you can defeat this on actual headphones by designating them as something else.

1) I’m not Apple, I’m just a fellow user.

2) Laws in France, guidelines in the EU and product liability lawyers in the US as well as elsewhere dictate otherwise.

These concerns aren’t at all new:

https://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/apple-offers-volume-settings-in-face-of-lawsuit-complaints/article_fb369a14-a6db-54be-a22a-921b42d9280d.html

If you are getting this message just when using headphones, you

genuinely might want to review how loud you are listening to stuff....

Not all headphones are the same. I have two pairs of headphones that are OSHA compliant and already limit the audio to something like 79 dB. Apple was still cutting the volume to 50% every 15-20 minutes. The simple fact is Apple has no idea what the sound level is going to your ears as they admit to on their sound FAQ page.

Why does Apple need to distinguish between "Speaker" and "Car Stereo"? I noticed my UConnect system in my truck was already set to "Car Stereo" after the update which proves Apple was whitelisting certain Bluetooth devices. What do you think Apple is doing with millions of users telling them what the devices type is of their Bluetooth devices? Apple already knows the headphones they sell are headphones. Think about it...

Joseph Jolton wrote:

Here's the irony for me: I wear cochlear implants and I use a bluetooth connection to listen to music from my phone. In this context, it's electrical impulses being streamed straight to my auditory nerves. There's no auditory component. It is possible for something to be too loud, but in that case it's an electrical overload that still won't cause any damage to my ears. I generally ride the volume up to be louder than the sound being picked up by my processor's microphone. There's nothing that can cause any damage, and I admit people like me are edge cases, but c'mon.

That is definitely something you should be submitting to Apple as feedback.