Health keeps reducing Bluetooth audio volume

Hi there, it works perfectly for me. In bluetooth settings, you click on the info for a device, and for many you can select if they are headphones or speaker, or car stereo. If you get it off of headphones it stops jumping in to reduce the volume. It was killing me before, but is totally resolved for me now!

iOS 14.4 fixes it

Hey there SandcastleLondon,

It sounds like you'd like to turn off the Headphone Notifications, and we'd like to share a resource that can help.

Check it out here: Track headphone and environmental sound-level exposure in Health on iPhone

Specifically, take a look at the "View Headphone Notifications for loud headphone audio" section.

You can also submit feedback regarding this here: Product Feedback

We hope this helps.

I totally agree that this is a well-intentioned feature that has totally gone awry. My headphones never give me an alert. It's only external bluetooth speakers. For audio quality purposes, I set the iphone volume to maximum and control the volume with the blue-tooth device's volume control. A simple compromise would be for the iPhone to allow me to assign different devices as "headphones" or "not headphones." Funny enough, I may actually leave my actual headphones marked as "headphones."

However, I think I speak for all adults when I say that I don't need a corporation to tell me when I'm listening to something too loud.

I’ve just put my IPhone 11 Pro Max up for sale on eBay because of this. I’m going back to Samsung. I can’t believe the arrogance of Apple treating us like Children. I’m an adult, I’ll decide on what volume I listen to music.

I agree with this as well. I don’t get warning with my AirPods, but my Bluetooth speakers keep being turned down automatically. This is even after deselecting “reduce loud sounds”.

it makes me wonder about the accuracy of the setting, as it clearly has no idea what the actual decibel level is, making this “protection” worthless.

i agree that a headphones / not headphone setting could resolve it. I want the best signal possible in my car. I wouldn’t mind protection against high levels in headphones. (But mostly just when first putting them on / in.)

I’m olso sick of apple taking control of my volume it looks as though my next phone will be something else as I’m not happy I like to listen to my phone on my motorcycle through a Bluetooth headset and it turns down after 20 mins absolutely ridiculous f€€ck off apple

Anyone else still having this problem even with 14.4 installed? The audacity of a company that thinks it knows what is good for each individual better than the person knows themselves! We are only seeing the beginning of this ideology, unfortunately.

“Unfortunately we have to reduce your social credit score because of this recent post, and your driving speed will be limited to 10kmh for the next 30 days.” Lol, unfortunately this is the reality we now face.

if you’re referring to updating to iOS 14.4, it doesn’t work, hence my post. If there is an actual fix that I somehow missed then would you be so nice to point me in that direction and excuse my ignorance?

Hello—I think this worked on iPhone SE2: in settings, go to the “info i” to the right of your Bluetooth speaker. Rename it something like External Bluetooth Speaker. The worried moms at apple will then let you live your life.

Yup, happened to me today. I installed the new update 2 days ago and I’m sitting here outside listening to an Bluetooth speaker and just got a notification that the volume has been turned down to “protect” my hearing.

C’mon Apple, this is ridiculous.

Samsung may start the same program soon.