Attention aware won't turn off

I also have an iPhone 12 Mini with this same issue. I pull out my phone or glance at it for whatever reason and anything I’m playing gets very quiet for an annoyingly long time unless. When it’s a more serious problem (I’m listening to something as part of my workflow), I can only manually adjust the volume in Settings to get it back to normal. Attention Awareness is off but it still happens. Restarting doesn’t help. Toggling AA on and off doesn’t help. I can so easily lower the volume myself when I need to and have never come across a useful scenario for the feature. I want to make it stop. Edit: it looks like I’ve already commented on this issue. Still waiting for a real solution.

Have you found a solution? This has been a problem for me the last month or so. I have all attention aware settings off and reduce loud sounds off. I work with my phone playing music or a podcast and every time I check something on my phone, the sound goes quiet and I can’t hear anything for a while unless I manually adjust the sound settings on the phone to get it back to normal. It’s driving me nuts.

Appleidforme0 wrote:

Also on iPhone 12 mini, OS 17.3, also have shut AA off, toggled on and off etc., nothing will stop the volume from going down. I cannot for the life of me understand the purpose of this ‘feature’.. it even does it when I have headphones on. It seems like this isn’t a problem for many people.. is it iPhone mini specific perhaps? pls Apple! There are dozens of us!

Apple isn't here. This is a user to user only forum. Attention Aware, has nothing to do with the volume going down when a notification comes in, if that's what anyone is thinking. Attention Aware simply reduces the volume of incoming calls ring tone, once the phone is aware you are looking at it.

If you are listening to music, watching a video or a podcast and a notification comes in, the phone will reduce the volume of what you may listening/watching and then raise the volume again after the notification. This is normal and as Apple designed it to work.

If you don't like the feature, this isn't the place to try to tell Apple. You can provide feedback to Apple here --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Also on iPhone 12 mini, OS 17.3, also have shut AA off, toggled on and off etc., nothing will stop the volume from going down. I cannot for the life of me understand the purpose of this ‘feature’.. it even does it when I have headphones on. It seems like this isn’t a problem for many people.. is it iPhone mini specific perhaps? pls Apple! There are dozens of us!