Navigation voice volume

I'm having the same issue since updating to iOS 15. The "Navigation & Guidance" feature is completely missing. Besides this issue, a few apps have crashed or frozen and also, one of the apps is flickering when I scroll up and down. Super annoying. Hope Apple will fix soon.

Looks like we can only adjust the volume while Siri is saying something. The volume buttons controls the volume of Siri while it’s being used.

during navigation prompts or other sayings.

I found it easier to adjust when I say “hey Siri, say something” then I adjust the volume while it’s saying something.

I found that this is not true, at least when it comes to my vehicle (2017 Nissan Altima) and Apple Music with Apple Maps or Google Maps voice nav. Apple Podcasts volume is about the same as the voice navigation. It seems that Apple Music needs an adjustment.

Yes, this is so annoying! In the Apple Map app, I used to be able to change the volume navigation to something like Loud/Normal/Low/No voice. Since iOS15, I cannot find anywhere to change the volume of the voice navigation, and it’s really irritating. I really hope Apple change/fix this!

One thing that is also missing with the new update is the "Navigation & Guidance" click. I'm having the same issue and need to turn up the maps voice without turning up the music in the car. I'd also like to change the voice accent, but that area is also missing with the new update.

I’ve just reported it as a bug, too.

Aside from the navigation voice volume control missing, I have noticed I also cannot control the volume of music being played in the Amazon Music app - the volume buttons on my iPhone 13 Pro are unresponsive. This is really annoying, as I should be able to adjust the volume of the music being played using the side buttons.

Just so everyone is aware you can still adjust your navigation volume but only when the navigation voice is speaking. I have to do this through my car stereo whilst connected through Apple CarPlay.

Agree though that’s this issue needs to be addressed.

I also don’t have CarPlay. I connect my iPhone via an aux cable to my car stereo. I like to use Apple Maps at the same time as streaming music from Amazon Music. I hate no longer being able to adjust the volume of the navigation voice directly on my iPhone - the voice now drowns out my music. Only workaround will be using Google Maps or TomTom instead of Apple Maps, which I’m really not happy about.

Apple - please sort this out!?!

It is amazing to me for the cost of this device that the product managers would sign off on removing intregral functionality and all the while ignoring that a search for "vol" brings up areas in maps that no longer exist. The obviousness that this severly denigrates the customer experience with maps and music (or other audio applications) can not be overstated. The ability to balance maps spoken volume up/down, with the music and/or other audio apps volume up/down, streaming or otherwise, is essential. This is especially true when driving, as distracrting audio behavior is a hazard. Fix this in the next few sprints please.

They removed this, and it’s made my experience worse and reduced the value of their product. Whoever is managing the product at apple for the maps app isn’t doing their job. Now those of us who use nav over Bluetooth have to crank up a he music louder to hear the directions clearly, terrible. I’ve been using iPhone since the first one in 2007, and watch each iOS get buggier and worse with features removed rather than added and refined, I’m starting to think something in the apple core is rotting (bad leadership). Guess I’ll be using Google Maps and Waze now…by Apple Maps (and this is how you lose market share, Tim)

Yup, I’m a product manager by trade and this is exactly true. Whoever is managing the maps app isn’t getting close to the end users to understand how they use the product in different settings to execute a design with the dev team that matches the direction they want to take while meeting those requirements…you have an entire user population that streams over BT and Aux in vehicles that don’t have CarPlay and now you’ve unacceptably worsened their experience, this is how you lose market share to competitors that study and understand…the native integration with my apple watch is not value add enough to keep me from switching to google’s product…I miss Steve

You’re missing the point - we don’t want to turn the voice commands off - we want to be able to adjust the *volume* of the voice commands. That way, we can still listen to music (via aux or blutooth) AND the voice commands at the same time, without the voice commands being ridiculously loud and drowning out the sound of the music.

Apple needs to bring the voice command volume controls back!

not always a solution. i connect to my car stereo via bluetooth. the stereo is equipped for (although i don't actually have) a mic that is directly connected to it. if i say "hey siri" while in my car, the stereo expects the input to be from the (non-existent) mic. so that won't work for me. there was nothing wrong with the old, manual, setting of the nav volume. the removal of said function is dumbfounding. and while your solution may work for some, it will not work for me. it would be best to simply add the functionality back to the maps app. :-)

This 100%. There was nothing wrong with the old manual setting of the navigation volume, and the fact that Apple have removed it is dumbfounding. For those of us who connect via Bluetooth or Aux, we are now screwed. I am praying Apple bring this much needed functionality back!

That must be even worse! I connect via Aux, and when the nav voice speaks, it lowers my music. But, because I like to play my music pretty loud, the nav voice sounds super loud and it’s incredibly irritating.

Pre iOS15, I used to like setting the nav voice to “Low”, as this suited me best. I could hear the instructions whilst listening to my music, and the nav voice was unobtrusive. I would sometimes set it to “Loud” if I was driving a more unknown/complicated route, and I didn’t want to miss a turn. I just want that functionality back!

Apple seriously needs to return this feature to Maps. I am hoping that if there are enough posts/complaints about it, Apple will take action.