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Ringer volume setting broken after 16.3 upgrade fix.

This may have happened with an earlier upgrade, but I’ve just noticed that with “change with buttons“ set to off, the ringer volume slider in settings has no effect. Instead, the the buttons on the side control the ringer volume and media volume together. In other words to set your ringer volume all the way up, you have to turn the media volume all the way up with the buttons. Likewise setting the media volume all the way down with the buttons will reduce the ringer volume to zero as well as the media volume.

When you set “change with buttons” to on, the only difference is that when you use the side buttons and media is not playing, you hear your ringtone. The buttons still adjust both the media volume and ringer volume together. So turning down your media volume to a lower level will also reduce the volume of the ringer.

powering the phone off and on again fixed this

phone is iPhone 11

iPhone 11

Posted on Jan 24, 2023 5:27 PM

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jere80

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Posted on Jan 27, 2023 9:00 PM

There appears to be a problem with IOS16.3 and low ring tone volume. I upgraded and now ring tones are barely audible. My other iphone running 16.2 rings loud and clear. Hope Apple fixes this issue soon as we have missed a few calls today (Jan 27)

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