When I am listening to music, playing a game with sound, watching a video, or having sound be used by any app (SiriusXM, tik tok, etc) the sound has randomly been decreasing like it does when I would get a text message notification or something, but there is no notification that comes through, and then the music/sound comes back to where is was. Any ideas on how to solve this issue?
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iPhone XS
Having the same problem. When I play an app in the background (usually youtube) and check another app the volume will randomly lower and stay low for 30 - 60 seconds. There's no way to turn the volume back up. So, for instance, if the volume is at 100% then it will still show as being 100% despite an approximately 40% decrease in volume.
Using an iphone 12 pro on the latest operating system.
That is not the problem posted by Bkush04, the person you responded to with your post. I answered the post made by Bkush04, because you said “I have this issue now”, so I answered the issue asked by BKush04. You have now described a different problem.
What happens when you use the volume buttons on the phone rather than killing the music app and starting it again? Or locking the screen on the phone?
And it would be natural for the volume of the speaker to drop when you wake up the phone, as it assumes that your attention is directed to the phone rather than the music.
whats funny is my 13promax will only do this when my battery drops under 50% as soon as I connect my charger it doesn’t do it anymore. Think you guys might want to test this theory for yourselves because it was the case for me
is your battery percentage below 50% when this happens? I was trying to find a solution for this same issue for almost a year now until I realized it only does it for me when my battery drops to half and quits doing it once I connect my charger.
Yesterday 2/23/24 I could Bluetooth music to my stereo. My phone updated overnight and now I can’t play Spotify or YouTube to my stereo. When I do, the volume drops in sections down to zero. Can anyone help?
was having the same issue the I found this on Reddit it worked for me
“it sounds you have Attention Awareness enabled on your iPhone. This feature may the volume when you are looking at the iPhone.
Therefor, based on the information you provided in your post, this phenomena is NOT random: it happens right when you pick up your device ie. when you are looking at it, thus triggering 'Attention Awareness'.
To turn Attention Awareness off do the following:
Settings - Face ID & Passcode, and switch Attention Awareness to Off
-Close all apps
-Shut down your device
Once your device has powered off, then
-Power on your device
-re-check the changes are still in place (ie. Awareness should be Off)
Next time you pick up your device, it will keep blasting as loud as you set it up.
The second part you mentioned in your post has to do with 'this also happens randomly': Just keep in mind that IF and that is a gigantic 'IF' you have other apps running in tbe background and/or you have 'app background refresh' turned on in your device, then it may be possible that even after turning Attention Awareness off you could then have an app that may be running in the background (1) AND/OR if you have 'app background refresh' on (2), than other apps may be trying to lower the volume to notify you... this happens to me sometimes, though in my case, I know which apps are running and in 100% of the cases are the other apps, that tried to play a notification sound and either got hunged-up and played nothing, but the volumne as a result was turned down for the notification to play, even though the notification sound may have indeed failed to play--.
Best for you will be to have all of your apps closed when you have your music blasting loud, as well as app background refresh turned off as well, so that you will be 100% that nothing else will be interrupting your sound experience : )
Best Regards”
Hi ArmMan1016,
I did have the Attention Awareness enabled, turned it off, though that did not fix the issue. :(
What did Apple say when you contacted them→https://getsupport.apple.com/topics
So far you haven’t contacted Apple in this user-to-user forum.
Hey Bkush04,
Were you ever able to solve this issue? I’m having the exact same situation with iOS 15.4.1. Nothing I do seems to help.
I have the exact same issue with my iPhone 12!!! I cannot figure out the cause!
Oh. My. Friggen.
this is driving me crazy daily. Like I feel like I am trying to figure it out. Then feel insane.
What. Did. You. Do?
???????????????!!!???
Help!!! Did you fixed the problem?
did you fixed the problem?
I think I solved it.
I turned off Headphone Accommodations and it hasn’t happened again.
accessibility > audio/visual > headphone accomodations
Mine has never been on and it still happens
Mine was already set to off.
This ruins the whole gaming experience when the sound is turned down. I don't think Apple is doing anything about the problem.
iPhone volume decreasing on its own
