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just-petri Author

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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 16, 2020 1:24 PM

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emsicz

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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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