How to turn off Headphone Safety on iPhone
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
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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
Some of us have been handed a nasty surprise from Apple after recently updating to IOS 14.2. Prior to iOS 14.2 our phones had a feature called headphone safety which notified us that the volume of our headphones was too high and lowered it back down autonomously. This feature was mandated for EU states but it was optional for everywhere else, essentially if you lived outside of Europe, you were able to turn this feature off.
Once you update your phone to iOS 14.2 there is no longer an option to disable this headphone safety feature, whether you live in the EU or outside of Europe (I live in Canada). Okay, so what’s the big deal? Well, first thing, ethically speaking, medical concerns such as hearing loss, which this feature is trying to prevent, are essentially a personal choice, which should not have any interference with a Tech company.
More importantly, the feature has been designed terribly. It cannot differentiate between Bluetooth headsets, Bluetooth speakers, and Bluetooth receivers for your car radio. We typically listen to music quite loud on Bluetooth speakers, since they are typically further away from us, however since the phone cannot differentiate between a Bluetooth speaker and Bluetooth headphones, it assumes your listening to headphones too loud and lowers the volume for you to 50%. If you higher the volume manually it will continue to lower it every 20-30 minutes. This experience becomes dangerous when driving as it forces you to either pull over or reach for your phone and fiddle with the buttons while driving, which can have dangerous consequences.
We have tried reaching out to apple, and we were met with disappointing results. The recommended help was to submit your feedback to apples feedback page: https://www.apple.com/feedback/ Upon accessing the feedback page, there isn’t even an option to report any feedback for iOS 14.2 bugs/ features.
Shockingly, posts submitted to the apple community boards/forums kept being deleted, and I was personally threatened to have my apple ID deleted and ISP blocked if I continued to raise awareness in regards to this issue. This is truly a first for Apple, in 13 years that I’ve been a customer, I never thought I would get threatened this way. So one must assume there is no help coming, no consideration, no willingness to engage in discourse by Apple in regards to this with the impacted users.
Apples mythological existence was largely propelled by the introduction of the iPod, a device that made it easy for us to enjoy music, how we wanted, where we wanted. Today, amongst so many limitations due to the global pandemic, all we really ask is to please, let us enjoy our music uninterrupted, un-convoluted, we need this right now, for some of us, music is the only thing we have left to keep us afloat.
Please allow those who are not within the EU the ability to turn this feature off; we are all conscientious adults able to manage our hearing.
This is not a smear campaign against Apple, we just want to be heard, much like we just want to hear our music.
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Apple!!!! Correct your mistake!!!!
As have I
This is driving me mad as it thinks I’m connected to headphones when in fact I’m playing through Bluetooth to my hifi. Apple hasn’t thought this through.
I live in the us and don’t have access what color is your phone?
That work btw cheers 👌🏻👌🏻
On beta of iOS , they ask us for our opinion, but I have the impression that they don’t care...
I have disabled my Apple Music account for the moment and I use an old Android to play music in my car
I will send a complaint to Apple, this is abuse of power. They want to interfere with your freedom, I am sure this will become widely spoken, I will expose it as much as I can.
Come on Apple . I link my phone to my motorcycle helmet and control the volume from there .I am also wearing ear protectors This feature makes what is essentially a $2000 set up useless !!
I did as you instructed. However, Headphone Safety still doesn’t have anything I can adjust, except for “Reduce Loud Sound”, which has always been there.
If you don’t have the switch you can’t turn it off,
You can only give feedback and hope they finally decide to spend some time implementing the ‘feature’ correctly.
Tesla has optional ludicrous mode, so I suppose apple decides to exceed Tesla and implements in iphone ludicrous mode permanently .
its not helpful saying to turn it off ....turning it off is not an option and that is the problem
It’s strange. My wife’s phone requires it to be on and mine doesn’t.
And I think that the easiest and cheapest option for me is not buying iphones any more.
that's sad because I like 12 mini, but its useless for me with this bug in iOS.
k0144 wrote:
And I think that the easiest and cheapest option for me is not buying iphones any more.
You should always choose the device the best that best meets your needs
How to turn off Headphone Safety on iPhone