Turn off volume turned down on iPhone

johannesvonhavnnes wrote:

Is that a permanent fix or just a temporary one?

Temporary, you have to do this everytime you hit the 7-day limit.

So let's say you cranck it up to 90dB, then you reach your weekly listening limit in 4 hours.

When you listen at 100dB you've only got 24 minutes, 110db: 2 minutes until you need to deep dive in health menu for a reset.

So: basically unusable. This issue turned my iPhone into a very expensive door stop. A door stop that allows me to make phonecalls, you got to give 'em that, very multi functional. Ordered a droid now, which also have warnings but at least they allow you to override it permanently in the settings (activate developer mode).

This he is one of the worst updates even it does the same for me i do have external speakers Bluetooth and even with Audi plugs etc. And during late nights i do have my volume det on a low cost level but when this protection crap turns on the sound of my music becomes almost nothing and it grieves me to go p from my bed and handle my phone

and the reason i got the phone was because of the music i could listen to as i wanted. And I’m an adult and fully aware of protecting my hearing because i love music and dont want to lose my hearing but this auto turning down the volume and not being able to change it back is way to a young so fix this or next time i will change o phone apps will not be my choose. Because i dont like it when a device takes control over someting i love

i almost have music on 24/7 and this function messes it up

and now its worse even its noon here and my phone adjusts the volume down to almost nothing

Here my speaker one of them

Well the volume on my speaker is on 8 of 32 steps and when the phone turns down the volume i dont hear anything

so dear apple fix this or start loosing costumers i dont care who or what law it is but forcing me to suffer and disturb my music listening is not okey. So in. Future update implant a feature

an one more thing many people use thier devices to play music in stores or pubs with thier smart devices and this function messes up the music even there so you have not thought this true when you implanted this most hated update ever

so i hope that you guys will fix this in future or as i mentioned start loosing costumers because people does not like it when an device locks you out from what you usually do

my main reason for apple producs was to take pictures and the sound and music

but now you have messed up one of most valued function on those phones i have.....

so unless a change will happen in next update i will have no other choice than get rid of all my apple phones and devices and go to android which i dont like but anything to have full control of my sound levels on my devises

so what’s with this turning down volume ??????? Hmmm ??? And even during day time when I’m digging to soft music in a low volume already ???? This update is the worst so far

I made a Shortcut that fills up the Health app with bogus -1000 dB measurements 1 week into the future to mess with this safety "feature" and not let it figure out that it should lower the volume: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/8a1ec923fdb240a69a083cf5147eb57c

For some reason it doesn't work 100%, still lowers the volume like once a day when on max volume, but that's still miles better than every 30-ish minutes.

Just make sure to run it every 7 days (or set up an automation).

Attached screenshot from the Health app.

Good let’s hope that because this getting extremely annoying and it ****** me of.

and they should have thought of this earlier and the device should be able to sense what’s a speaker and what’s a headphone

as a headphone mesurmet this volume turn down is very good but as speaker user it’s extremely anoying

and that not all most places that plays music uses smart devices to play thier music for the visitors and this volume turn down will then become an massive issue

so before making a change make sure that it works flawlessly and that you have tested it thoroughly and even thought what I mentioned above

so let’s hope this update comes soon so can fix this turn down volume crap on my speakers

My use case: I connect my iPhone to external speakers (wired) and if the phone detects too much volume, it reduces the volume, making me need to mess around turning the volume back to where it was. I’m UK-based. The user is given NO choice about this feature (in my region). Choice is everything.

Apple: It is worth considering that the iPhone's microphone is not always close to the listener's ear, so this approach of unilaterally deciding to lower the volume is flawed. Again, it should be optional.

The workaround to this iOS 14.2 EU problem, for me, is to stick some Blu-Tack over the phone’s mic grill, while listening to music through my speakers.

This prevents iOS from waiting a few minutes and lowering my music volume without asking me.

I completey agree with my fellow users - this is very annoying. I use my phone as a music source in my car via an FM transmitter. Turning the music & navigation system voice down unwantedly is the worst bug/feature I've seen from apple in years. If this isn't fixed soon I'll migrate to android as well. Just make it optional in the settings and all will be well.

Just had my volume turned down by this new setting. I am a motorcyclist who uses the phone to listen to traffic reports, directions, music etc. whilst riding. As I ware ear plugs whilst riding the volume is turned up so I can hear it. With this new setting I reach there so called limit within 1 hour of using the device. This is not only inconvenient but dangerous and could lead to me having problems with the police as I have to stop to turn the volume up every 10 minutes and the law says I may not handle my phone at any time whilst in control of a vehicle even if stationary.

Whilst using the Apple help line I realised that the so called Apple specialist had no idea how this update worked and even suggested there was a problem with the update and I should back up my phone, wipe it and reinstall the operating system. Should I get stopped by the police for operating my phone whilst sitting on my motorcycle I wonder if calling Apple to the stand to explain how it is there fault will get me off the hook. Come on Apple this is bloody ridiculous and dangerous.

Absolutely annoying - I connect my iphone 6s to my amplifier via a 3.5mm jack to RCA cable. The volume is turned down to inaudible randomly, about once every 30 minutes. There is no way to prevent this from happening.

Same issue here.

I'm using a FiiO BTR5 Bluetooth headphone amplifier with my iPhone SE (2020). The headphone amp has its own volume control, separate from the one on iOS (adjusting the volume on the device does not adjust the volume in iOS and vice versa). To simplify volume control, I have it maxed out on iOS and I'm only adjusting it on the BTR5.

Around a week ago I have updated to iOS 14.2. Starting today, every 20-30 minutes I get a notification about protecting my hearing and the volume is turned down on iOS (again, the volume is adjusted on the Bluetooth device and is at a safe level).

I don't want to max out the volume on the Bluetooth amp to prevent noise, and I don't want to leave both volume controls below max since that would increase the chance of accidentally increasing both and blasting my ears apart, I'd rather, uh, protect my hearing.

Does blocking the mic help? I’d think if it was using the microphone it would know that the noise level is safe.

It seems to me like it’s just based off the volume percent, and it assumes you’re wearing headphones where 80% is too loud.

It absolutely does help. I have not had the volume lowered on me once, since I’ve been covering the mic grill with Blu-Tack. This is with the iOS volume slider at maximum, and the phone in close proximity to the speakers.

Without blocking the mic, the volume notification is received and the volume is turned down on 100% of occasions (with the same volume settings, phone-speaker proximity, speaker volume, and specific music tracks playing) after a few minutes.

I can honestly say I’d already tried this and it didn’t work for me. Now there is no way I can get all the blue tack out. I would never have tried this on my new iPhone SE, in fact I don’t seem to have the problem at all on it. It’s an old iPhone SE (1st Gen) in which I get the problem. This is just a phone I use for playing music at work (no sim). I checked to see how well the microphone was blocked by using a decibel meter app, I use this regularly and it was reading about 30dB in a 90+ dB environment, so it was well and truly blocked. I had tried this app many times before and the app is quite accurate (certainly accurate enough). I urge caution ⚠️ before trying this method!!! Just do add, like others, this problem infuriates me beyond belief:-(

I’m not using a speaker and thus blocking the microphone won’t work for me either.

I did find a workaround in some blog post/article though: removing all data from the hearing section of the health app seems to prevent this from happening, at least for 7 days.