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Turn off volume turned down on iPhone

Hi,


A couple of days back I’ve updated to iOS 14.2, and last night, as I was having a headache, decided to fall asleep to some music. IEMs on, music on, relaxing, third track, close to falling asleep, baaam! no more music. I’m checking my DAC/AMP, apparently, music was still playing. I’m checking my iPhone, volume dropped to half with a notification about volume being turned down to protect my hearing.... I’m turning volume up, and trying to fall asleep again. Two track later, baaaam! no music again, volume down to half again. Thanks Apple for not helping!

@Apple, you are aware that not everyone’s using your Pods. Some of us are using our phone as a music source, feeding digital signal to a DAC/AMP, and we control volume at AMP level. How do you calculate SPL without knowing my AMP's specs and settings, IEMs sensitivity and impedance?

When you implemented this ‘hearing protection’, what did you think?

    • We know better than our customers how music volume should be controlled, feeding 4-bit depth to a DAC is just fine!
    • We are aware that some of our customers use external DAC/AMP and this 'feature' will affect them, we just don’t care!
    • None of the above/nothing.


iPhone has been my music source since 3Gs came out, but this... is, by far, the biggest disappointment.

I know Apple won’t bother to answer, but I also know that music playback is half of my iPhone usage, and the other half can be handled just fine by a dumb phone, so, all good!



P.S.: one of the reasons I’m using an external DAC/AMP is having a better volume control with hardware buttons/volume wheel. Yes, iPhone has volume buttons also, but, for me, with the Lightning to 3.5mm adapter, only the first 4 volume steps are usable, 5th is already to loud, and 1st is too loud if I’m listening before falling asleep.




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Posted on Nov 28, 2020 11:00 AM

Just wanted to update the thread that as of 28.11.2020 this has not been resolved. I used iPhones since 2012 and I used them for 2 things:


  • Listening to music (doesn't work now as explained in this topic).
  • Reading emails (doesn't work now, see thread).


I have already bought Android phone and migrated everything over in an afternoon. This 14.2 update really quickly separated people that use their device for work vs. people that use it as jewelry. There's more of us in my social bubble that simply forked out couple hundred bucks because that was cheaper than to deal with this kind of incompetence. I was used to see this kind of incompetence on Android but as of this date, I can listen to music and read emails on Android, while I can't do that on Apple.

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Jan 22, 2021 3:09 AM in response to emsicz

This starts to **** me of realy.

im using Bluetooth speakers and in the middle of the **** day it’s turning my volume down


who the f are you to decide for me what volume I’m listening to ?? If I lower the phone volume and increase the speaker volume I will get a static sound that is disturbing to listen



i spend my free time watching tons of programs and listen to loads of documentaries.



sure this function is good for your minors but I’m a 43 years old man and let me decide how I use my phone and my speakers


forst of all your phones costs loads of money I bought it due to some favorite functions but you are now alienating me from apple products



if you don’t fix this in near future and give me option to dismisss it for at least 12 hours you will lose me as a costumer and I will go an alternate brand of phone that does not decide for me my volume controls


the sound level I use is below normal daily sound levels soo fix this crap it’s broken give me back my control on my device and give me my option to turn it of difrent more than 30 minutes



I can’t for F*** sake not even watch a movie on my phone without this shiat turning down my volume.


let me as I mentioned enjoy and decide how high or low volume I like to use

Jan 22, 2021 7:27 AM in response to just-petri

I say the same this is the worst update and function ever music is my 70% usage of the phone and 25% is for watching programs and the last 5% is for photos and other uses


even I use external speakers and who the f are apple that decides for me what volume I should use



one thing if it only did this once every hour or once every 2 hours but every other song it’s got to the point where it realy makes me angry and I’m going to change from apple to an other product where I can decide how the f I want to listen to my darn music

Jan 22, 2021 8:19 AM in response to GeekGeri

Thank you then if it’s gets implemented I will once again become an happy apple user if not I will change my hardware to an other company’s device



so I’m holding my Tumbs for this update and let’s hope it will be rales already yesterday


music is and has always been my getaway and this current update version is driving me crazy.


fir now I’m not able to work due to severe back pain and then music is my only companion that gives my mind and body peace but this turn down volume gets on my nerves.


I have tried almost everything to solve this but noting has worked I even dissconected all my devices nothing worked



so thank you for this news and it gives me hope and many other feels the same I think


so thank you so much for your response GeekGeri

Jan 22, 2021 3:10 PM in response to TaToTaKo

Installed iOS 14.4 RC, using a Bluetooth audio device the volume is no longer turned down when you exceed the limits, but by default you still get annoying notifications.

You can however set the device type to something other than Headphone in the Bluetooth device settings (only tried the "Other" device type so far) and you no longer get the notifications. Woo!

Not sure how wired headphones or speakers work.

Jan 23, 2021 1:03 AM in response to TaToTaKo

I will keep on complaint untill the next update of this most anoying update ever


it’s Saturday and middle of the day and i just started to listen to a few songs and BAMMM once again Volyme turn down....



I’m awaiting answer / response from apple Employes


when is the next update again ke for us or do i have to enroll in beta just to fix this for now ?? Will the next update come within a few days or weeks???


I’m 99% sure that no employee will answer so does anyone else know when the update will a single for us ???

Turn off volume turned down on iPhone

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