Notification volume on my iPhone is very low

This solution doesnt help. I had done it and still couldn't hear notifications from apps that are not originated from Apple. Could you work with apps developers to volume up their app notifications.

Good try Alan, nice and loud when choosing the sound in Whatsapp settings. But as soon as I get a message on my 13 pro, it’s diminished, and can only be heard in a quiet room. 'Boing’ is the only one you have half a chance of hearing out and about. Old iphone 8, twice as loud, old iphone Xs Very, loud! All comparable to my 13pro, and I might add a family members 15pro. Seems the more recent ones are quieter, which I can only surmise is deliberate by Apple.

Anybody here get any help on this yet? I've posted on another thread similar to this I believe, & nothing there so far, & I've tried directly w/apple & no fix yet. Even when text volume is all the way up, text tones just won't play loud like the ringtones. What's really crazy, is the one custom tone, out of many, that phone was on during last years 17 update still plays loudly still, but all the others, which there are dozens, don't. Please apple, I can see there are so many dealing w/this, any help is greatly appreciated!

Creating cool custom ringtones is not the problem, that’s easy to do, it’s the fact that text tones, are somehow now internally set to a lower volume w/out an option to raise it w/any levels/nobs/controls etc. perhaps this is not a thread for issue I’m having, we’ll await some help

Sorry folks, it seems I spoke too soon about using the custom ring tone. It did work for some apps, but I noticed not for the Microsoft Apps Notifications on my iPhone. My company uses Outlook and Teams and the notification volume in these apps is still very low and it is not using the custom ring tone I downloaded and selected for use. I also noticed there is no option to select a notification ringtone within the Microsoft apps. The only option within the Microsoft Apps is to turn the notification sound on or off. Still looking for a resolution for the Microsoft Notification Volume. With that being said the new notification ring tone I downloaded is working fine for the apple apps on my iphone, volume is loud and clear.

Nope. That does not help. All of these things were stated by others as “already tried and failed”. Does anyone from the apple community have any fixes? I spent two hours on the phone with tech support this morning on this very issue before looking to see if it was “just me” and finding this thread. iPhone 15 pro max, here with 17.3.1 phone is only a couple days old. I can hardly hear ANY of the new text tones and even some of the old ones are no longer sounding off.

I just fixed my phone from doing this, check the sounds and haptics part of settings, my slider was set all the way silent and I did not set it to be like that, I’m little hard of hearing so I always had it set to the highest. I hope this works for others as well

Thanks for reaching out varahala,

It sounds like your notifications are coming quieter than you'd expect. We can help.

First let's follow these steps to Adjust the volume on iPhone. Then, to turn up your notification volume go to Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Ringer and Alerts and drag the volume slider to the level you want it at.

If you have the Change with Buttons option enabled, you may also want to turn that off to lock the Ringer and Alerts volume. When Change With Buttons is enabled, anytime you adjust the volume for anything, the Ringer and Alerts volume will go to that level.

Turning off Change with Buttons will lock the Ringer and Alerts volume to the same level no matter what you adjust the volume to for other audio.

Hope that helps.

Take care.

Maybe try the following - worked for me. Go to Settings/Face ID and Passcode, scroll to and turn off Attention-Aware Features. Hope it works. Found the tip here https://youtu.be/X92s9H5se6Y

I’m on 16.7.2 now, and the alerts are still noticeably quieter than ringtone, but audible with Bluetooth enabled now, as long as it’s not connected to any devices, which kind of defeats the point of it! When connected to a Bluetooth device, all alerts become virtually inaudible still

I realise now that the spinning disk when in Bluetooth or Hearing Devices menus is probably normal behaviour - the phone starts searching as soon as you enter the setting, hence the spinning disk. It stops when you exit that menu (which you obviously can’t see!)

I thought that I was the only one who had exactly the same issue. I had many iOS devices but nothing had this issue. Notification sounds are way too low than on my older 5s. Ringer volume is good as should be but notifications sucks. Is there any way out of this situation pls let me know

I noticed that each individual alert tone that can be set for Ringtone,text tone,new Mail, Reminder etc has a volume setting, for example in WhatsApp notifications you can set an individual sound/tone under the Notifications option, for the Sound tone you can set None, Note(default) Aurora Bamboo etc, for these Alert Tones you can set the volume, just select the desired Tone, press the Vol up/down buttons to set the desired alert or notification volume level, press Save to set the volume level. This is in addition to the normal ringer/Alert Volume.

Hope that helps, took me ages to find and fix when my WhatsApp notifications were bareley audible, but the ringer vol was fine.

Best Regards

Alan

I downloaded a custom ring tone and just used it for everything.

I followed these instructions from this site.

It's not too complicated if you're a little tech savy.

https://www.howtogeek.com/248489/how-to-add-custom-ringtones-to-your-iphone/

The custom ring tone works great.

Hope it helps.

I downloaded a custom ringtone and followed the instructions on this site.

I used it for all my notifications and I can hear my notifications now.

https://www.howtogeek.com/248489/how-to-add-custom-ringtones-to-your-iphone/

Hope it helps.

Please send in videos to Apple, showing how we cannot adjust the low volume w/controls etc, yes it’s set low & is not cool, let’s help each other out, if enough of us do it, we’ll get a fix, it’s escalating to engineering team now