iPhone 5, iOS 7: Alert/Ringtone volumes low...

As a work-around you could try this:

Go to Settings>Sounds>Ringer and Alerts and turn OFF "Change with Buttons". Make the ringer high volume as well.

Now when playing music or videos, just use the volume buttons on the side to control it rather than the sliders. This means you can play the music as quietly or load as you want without turning down your ringers etc.

I had the same problem and from reading this thread, realised I had the phone in do not disturb mode - doh!! I was wondering what the moon symble was <embarrassed> :-)

Hello! 🙂

I faced the exact problem so instead of using ringtones, i used songs (which were louder)

here r the steps:

step 1) go to iTunes pc > Click 'Edit '> Preferences > Tick the box beside 'Tones' > Click 'OK'

now u will be able to see 'Tones' along with music, movies etc.

step 2) Go to your 'Music' section

Select a song

right click the song title and click 'Create AAC Version'

*note: u can't put an entire song as it's too long so u will have select a specific part of that song*

After the AAC version is created, right click it and click 'Get Info' > Options> Select your 'Start Time' and the 'Stop Time' of the song > click 'OK'

Step 3) After clicking 'ok', right click on THAT SAME AAC version (which u selected the timings for) and click 'Create AAC Version' again and after that is done you will find the shortened version of the song u wanted

Delete the AAC Version which u created in Step 2

Go to the folder where the shortened AAC version is located (in case u cannot tell where the file is, right click > get info> summary and below u will find the file location)

rename the song from 'm4a' to 'm4r' (make sure the song is not being played while u rename the file)

it is preffered that u move the file to the 'Tones' section from iTunes Media folder

open that file with iTunes and u will see it is visible in the 'Tones' section (just like u see in the Music section)

sync the tone with ur Device

you can repeat this process with all the songs u want as ringtones 🙂

I hope this helped!!

Here's a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpPm78KcT4E

This may clear it up

And yeah make sure it's a loud song, mine is heavy metal 😝

P.S. before trying this method, i could'nt hear my phone either so i tried this instead

Interested to know if you have found a solution to your alerts problem? I have the same issue as you with New Mail ringtone/ alerts settings i.e. cannot change it.

I also have a 4S and a 4. They both have ringer and text low volume after IOS7 update. I was on the phone about an hour with Apple support, even done a new phone restore and they're both still low. They ended up telling me I would have to buy a new phone since I didn't have a warranty on the 4S that I paid $700 for two years ago. The only way I can get around this issue until they fix the problem was I downloaded new ringtones from a free app, put them on the phones via iTunes and they are louder than the ones on our phones. Go through the tones they offer to find the loudest ones and download them. Worked for the text tones too.. Hope this helps till they find a fix. Everyone needs to report to Apple using the link Bizio61 gives in this thread.

Same issue for me as well on my iPhone 4. It worked fine with the alerts on iOS 6XX and earlier. Nice clear and loud. The second I updated to the iOS 7 I noticed even when the volume is set at full volume now it's equal to about 3/4 or even 2/3 volume previously. Like everyone I have gone through all of the settings and re-installs and all of that multiple times with no luck.

I don't really care as much about missing calls or texts because I can still hear those (or catch them from the custom vibrations). But what concerns me the most as a deep sleeper is the fact that I use the alarm on the phone to wake me up in the mornings and now with it lower in volume I'm afraid I'll not hear it. It's almost happened a few times already. I hope they come up wit a fix for the volume levels. I can't afford to buy a new phone and hope I get lucky and have them back at the old volume levels again.

Hi.

I upgraded to iOS 7.0.3 and ringtones sound level is still low.

Here's a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpPm78KcT4E

This may clear it up

Thank you for your link.

I already downloaded my own ringtones arranged and set to highest volume with Goldwave the day after iOS 7.0.0 has been released.

I think this is just a workaround anyway and not the real solution to the problem.

updated also to ios 7.0.3. same here no improvement to the ringtone volume. solution is to go to Settings> Music> turn off sound check. ringtone will be back to normal but playing music the volume won't be normalize. when will apple fix this problem?

This is great for others but not for me. I've already created custom ringtones and alert tones in garage band many years ago that work OK and still play at proper volume. My issue is with the default alert tones not being loud enough. I use the "alarm" tone as my ALARM to wake up in the morning and I also like some of the default tones as text/alert tones. Plus the facebook and twitter notifications and other app notifications like it. Those are the ones that are now about 2/3 the volume as they used to be.

I guess I COULD take the alerts and throw them into something like Audacity and boost their volume level and import them back in as a custom tone and go that route if this won't get fixed but I'm running an old 32GB iPhone 4 and space is already so limited I had to remove all of my music from the phone so I'd hate to have to add more custom tones until this is fixed just so I can get the old volume alert levels I had in iOS 6.XX and previous.

I believe I have a fix for this low volume issue. 2 steps

1> Settings/Sounds/ Change with Buttons "turn this off"

2> Now using the physical side buttons, turn up the volume.

For some reason when the "Change with Buttons" is on, the side buttons only go up so far, but when it's off it gives a greater range.