Navigation voice volume in Apple maps is missing in iOS 15. It is annoying to hear the map whispering the direction if I play music in my car. I don’t even use the Apple Music app. I use Spotify. How on earth can Apple bring back the Navigation voice volume in Apple Maps.
iPhone XR
The trick is to adjust the volume on the *car* radio while Siri is speaking. The CarPlay app will distinguish to adjust that volume rather than the music volume. You’ll even see a different icon on the volume bar when adjusting during that time.
rbbchbum wrote: "Apple needs to change settings for Maps to give loud announcements..."
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you've hit the crux of the issue here. it **USED** to be a setting i visited often. so i thought maybe it got moved somewhere else? but apparently, it's been removed. yipes.
Fill out the feedback form. The link is in this thread. I can confirm that iOS 15.1, that just came out, still has no Maps voice controls.
In iOS 15 I cannot find a way to control the volume, independently from music/podcasts being played, of the voice guidance in the current version of Apple Maps. Most are saying to just use the volume up/down buttons on the iPhone, but this seems to be global, and also changes the volume of music/podcasts being played. So if your listening to music very softly, you'll barely hear Siri speak the directions (or alerts). When you turn it up to hear Siri's voice guidance, once completed, you'll get alarmingly loud music. I can no longer find any options for 'Voice Guidance Volume'. Please help.
I agree. I do notice that Podcast volume is more relative to the navigation volume. The Apple Music volume must be extremely loud to hear the navigation. I attempted to turn up the volume WHILE Siri was speaking the directions, but then the music also plays louder. Apple should have volume independence for all apps, that way they could be better balanced. I believe Waze still has a setting for loudness.
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.
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
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. :-)
That's correct! In iOS 14 you could set the voice to loud. They removed that setting in iOS 15 and it was replaced with "pause podcasts". That setting might work well for podcasts, I wouldn't know though because I listen to ZERO podcasts, only music from my iTunes library!!
You have to have your radio set at a loud hearing level in order to hear the voice directions being spoken from the navigation. This is fine when I'm driving by myself but not so great when I have my family with me.
It would be really great if they'd give us separate volume levels instead of just a global one.
I'm just using my phone for Navigation to bluetooth earpieces. Not even connected to the car.
I CAN change volume in navigation, BUT a) I can't get there fast enough to hear maybe half the directions b) Next time Siri reads a direction the volume is dropped back to nearly ZERO so changing the volume IS NOT WORKING RIGHT. If I disconnect my bluetooth, then I believe the issue goes away, but I can't do that while driving and I shouldn't have too. This worked fine before iOS 15. I'm on 15.2 now. I see 15.3 is available.
Doesn't work for me. I adjust it every time Siri speaks, like 20 times on the way home. I don't always get done before she stops, but often do. Once in awhile, the next time Siri speaks it's at full volume, but doesn't stay and, in fact, volume goes to near zero/minimum.
I also tried using Google maps for directions on the same route. They give audio direction as well. SAME THING happens there.
Yes. It’s not just Apple Maps. Waze and Google Maps are very quiet over Bluetooth as well. And, only Google Maps gives the option to give directions over the phone instead of through the Bluetooth car stereo while Bluetooth music is playing.
Settings > Maps > Navigation & Guidance
That setting no longer exists.
Yes I’m experiencing the same issue too with ios15. Navigation volume setting in Apple maps under the new maps app.
The voice accent is now exclusively in the SIRI settings.
Navigation voice volume
