How to turn off Headphone Safety on iPhone

UL 62368-1 is over 300 pages long, please refer to section 10.6, SPL emitted by the headphones is driven by electric power creating kinetic energy that move the drivers and is covered under these new regulations.

what you found is an excerpt of the whole document.

95dB gives you about 1,5 hours per 7 days. These numbers multiply exponentially. (as the supposed effect of a +5dB increase) If you select 90 it should give you something closer to 30-40 hours which is more managable imo.

debraelizabeth wrote:

they also have to disclose it, they did not. The point being is this is the first time apple seems to be engaging in more deceptive practices.

If you don't approve of Apple's business practices, don't buy their products. Sell the ones you have and move on to something that better meets your needs.

While driving, does “hey Siri, turn my volume up” work? I’m looking for a way to not have to break the law to hear my navigation, thanks  for encouraging your users to pick up their phones at the wheel. Could you screw this up any more?

As much as I hate this being forced on me, it's not a good enough reason for supporting leaving the EU...

Seriously though, I'm going to try frequently going into the Health app and deleting all the historical dB data the phone has collected to see if it'll shut up the notifications and sound restrictions! Anyone else tried this and had it work?

I’m afraid leaving the EU won’t affect this one jot.

Boris can’t be bothered to brush his hair never mind be bothered about this.

As for deleting dB data, it works for a bit and then returns I’m afraid.

What particularly frustrates me about this bit of apple stupidity is that it’s very sloppy, lazy programming. The device is sophisticated enough to know what it’s connected too, especially via Bluetooth, so it knows you are not on headphones, but does it anyway.

Nick

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This isn’t anything to do with regulations. There’s no Global Music Regulation that affects the whole world. There’s no regulation in any country that says that phones cannot output to a hifi above a certain volume. Other manufacturer’s phones don’t automatically force the volume down. This is just something Apple has decided to do, for reasons we can only guess at. And it’s annoying so many of us I can’t see them keeping this particular “feature” for very long, but who knows...

VitesseEFI wrote:

It behaves as a bug in that it significantly spoils the user experience for many by acting unnecessarily.

That's the definition of "annoyance" not of "bug". A "bug" is something unintentional, a coding error or negative, unforeseen consequence to other changes. The difference is important to understand because how each thing is likely to get resolved is different. If Apple has made an intentional decision to make the software uniform across the EU then people in Apple's legal department and executives would be responsible for changing that policy. If it's a bug, it needs to be isolated by engineers and fixed while not creating more issues by fixing it. And that make take awhile. When you report a bug, it goes to the engineers. They don't make policy. So, kind of pointless to report it there.

Actually, the issue here is caused by a feature called "Headphone Notifications", and by its own description text it should only apply to headphones. Yet it affects other Bluetooth devices and non-headphone devices attached by wire, so arguably, at least in that sense it is indeed a bug.

That the feature also is annoying when used with headphones, that may not qualify as a bug.

It is NOT an EU mandate. It's a RECOMMENDATION. Even as a recommendation it does NOT dictate Apple to forcing people's volume down. Following that recommendation and interpreting it in their own silly way is Apple's own choice.

As with everything in life that is legal but unhealthy, it’s your own choice, and the choice should be your own. There’s things like solariums, cigarettes and alcohol that are all unhealthy yet nobody cuts off your supply... I am a musician and I like listening to my music at a reasonable Volume but that’s via Bluetooth in the car or Hi-Fi at home. I rarely use headphones which is the most damaging with prolonged use.

this is not a big, merely an example of Apples reduced quality since Jobs. User experience is everything and sets apart products that physically differ minimally. It’s a display of elementary omission of software testing. A fundamental screw up...

This feature shouldn’t be turned on in any region. It’s one thing to set a notification warning and it’s another to actually change the volume on someone’s phone. It seems to me that Apple is measuring the volume setting on the iPhone and not the actually Db level coming out of the Bluetooth speaker which is another fatal flaw in this whole debacle.

Seeing the same thing myself still on IOS 14.3, sadly.

No reason why this needs to be forced on, and it's utterly ridiculous when notifications are sent without any basis for the actual notification, i.e. a phone connected to an external audio system that's **turned down**. I can have the audio on my car stereo turned down to a whisper, but since the iPhone's volume is maxed, it "must be too loud" according to iOS.

Utterly. Ridiculous. Maybe I should go get an Android and return my new iPhone.

enigma_0Z wrote:

Utterly. Ridiculous. Maybe I should go get an Android and return my new iPhone.

You should always buy the device you think best meets your needs. Threats to go Android on a user to user only forum, doesn't matter at all to any of us users and get's you nothing.

You should tell Apple however, what you think, by providing feedback to them where it will actually be read by Apple --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple