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Sound still plays when phone is completely muted

When using fairly common apps like Instagram and Garageband, quite often I will lose control of the volume and it will be permanently on the highest setting, regardless of whether I turn it down or even mute it. It seems like the volume controls are being completely overridden by something; this is not very helpful at night when others are trying to sleep.

On Instagram, I can close out of the app and open it up again and it will be fixed, but Garageband does not work in the same way - I've had issues with Garageband before, but I'd assumed updating to the latest iOS would fix that.

iPhone XR, iOS 15

Posted on Nov 17, 2021 9:07 AM

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Nov 18, 2021 9:41 AM in response to Nicholas_B2

Hi, thank you very much for your reply, but that is not the issue I'm having right now.

My volume buttons work fine, god knows I use them enough, and I know the ins and outs of those settings. The problem I am having is when these stop working; I can press the buttons, and the onscreen slider goes up and down, but the app does not change volume and overrides these controls.

Is there a way to fix this specific thing? Could it be a hardware issue?

Sound still plays when phone is completely muted

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