How to turn off Headphone Safety on iPhone

Incredibly enough out of accident I had the lightning earpods plugged in after I had registered the 3.5mm adapter.

For some reason now when I have the lightning earpods in (not even 3.5mm headphones) I can now select whether it is headphones plugged in or not. This is running IOS 14.4.

This could be a glitch, but I know my lightning earpods are no longer recognized as headphones, because it doesn't respond to "reduce loud sounds".

So even when the lighting earpods are connected, you go to lightning adapters and turn off "connected to headphones". This has worked well for me. I am receiving no more warnings.

You can select this when any lightning connection is plugged in. I cannot speak for BlueTooth but it works. You just have to register the 3.5mm adapter with your phone as an "other device". Then you can disconnect the adapter and plug anything else into your phone, and the software will believe that is what is connected and bypass the headphone restrictions if you keep it turned off.

You need to tell Apple this. By replying here, you haven't. This is a user to user only forum and Apple isn't here.

This is how you get a message to Apple --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

1. Go to Settings.
2. Go to Sounds & Haptics.
3. Go to Headphone Safety.

let me know if it works

If you upgrade to 14.4 you should be able to change the device type to speaker or other by selecting the ! Icon.

If you have 14.4 you should be able to go to your settings and specify which devices are not headphones.

Because it was an incorrect suggestion

If you have a bluetooth speaker or non-Apple headphones you can reclassify them as Speaker in Bluetooth device settings

In addition to 14.4 letting you specify Bluetooth type it looks like you can shut headphone safety off all together in accessibility / Audio/visual

Go to accessibility; scroll down to audio/visual; toggle off headphone notifications.

Guys in uk here’s my fix and so far it’s sorted it

settings sounds & hepatics headphone safety Reduce loud sounds turn on ! Set to max turn off

the spy on your device can only then tell if u got over 100db

pics attached after wiping history

At least in the US, if you go to Settings > Privacy > Health, you will see "Headphone Audio Levels" at the top. It's the mechanism in which iOS will actually measure your audio exposure on your AirPods. I hoped that if I turned that feature off, that it couldn't actually adjust the level down, but that does not appear to be the case thus far. I'm going to restart my device and see what happens on my walk in the next little while.

Okay, so like many others may have found, the new 14.4 update in the UK has made it so you can choose what kind of Bluetooth device your music is coming through. So my Anker Soundcore speaker was set to ‘headphones’ so no wonder it kept turning the volume down. Now set to ‘speaker’ and so far I’ve had no issues. Can those that are using headphones, perhaps change their settings on Bluetooth to say it is a ‘speaker’? I hope this works! :)

This annoys me too, especially as I’m not actually listening on headphones, my Bluetooth speaker is far away and across the workshop so I need it loud.

the only way I have found to combat this when there is no disable button is to delete the data on my health app, you have to be “on it” though, because as soon as it detects 7 days of loud listening it will turn it down.

if anyone knows a better way or found this doesn’t work please let me know.

If your device is bluetooth٫ go to the bluetooth settings hit the blue i in a circle and it will say Device Type > Select "Other"and the notifications won't bother you anymore٫ because technically the iPhone is not reading it as a headphone. This is for ios 14.4

The option in Accessibility is not involved in the remedy which is entirely down to the new Bluetooth settings in ios14.4

You may have to unpair the headphones and re-pair before the options are available.

Apple Branded earphones cannot be overridden on this issue

No one can help you because you won’t read the posts containing the actual fix mentioned several times already.

But one more time for anyone else who is reading this thread:

Set up and listen to Bluetooth devices on iPhone - Apple Support