iPad 4 Volume drops really low a few seconds, then back to normal.

You might want to try restoring as new - without the backup - and see if that fixes it. If it doesn't fix it, you can still restore the backup and you won't lose anything but a little bit of time that you spend restoring again.

Backup again, then restore as new, use the iPad and switch from song to song or from one app with sound to another....whatever you need to do to cause the sound issue again. If the sound issue doesn't come back, then you might assume it's something in the backup that was causing the problem. Start over and rebuild the iPad from scratch.

If the problem does not go away when you restore as new, you can always restore the backup to the iPad again and then take it to an Apple Store and ask them to take a look at it.

Vocal alerts display the same behavior while a song or whatever is playing - such as when New Mail, Calendar and Reminders come through. Are you sure this isn't what is happening? First thing I do when I get up in the morning is turn on the shower, turn on my iPad, turn on my Jambox and select my morning playlist. The first song invariably gets stepped on multiple times as queued up email from the night before begins arriving.

I'M having this very save issue. It happens on most video playbacks at ~20 seconds in. I don't have this issue on other devices, only my iPad. The volume then comes back up on its own, but disappears at that same spot, even if I rewind the video or start the whole thing over. this is NOT an alert popping up. It is very repeatable. I notice it no matter what the video source is (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.). Is nobody else having this problem? I find very few forum entries on this problem, so I'm thinking it is not common, but definitely happening out there on a number of devices. Maybe most people just aren't noticing it or aren't as completely annoyed by it as I am. Hopefully somebody has a real fix for this (other that restoring the iPad).

I having exact same problem as cfdsjph, starts watching a vid on FB and approx 20 seconds in the volume drops so low I have to use volume key to be able to hear anything. Using iPad Air

Solved it on my iPad Air, at least for now. Not a hardware problem. Just a bug in some video code(c?) used in many if not all Apple devices, as it occurs on iPhones, iPods, and all kinds of Macs as well as iPads and iPad minis.

• Under Settings/Music, turned on Sound Check.
• Soft re-set (hold home and on/off button until screen goes black)
• When it restarts, go back to Settings/Music and turn Sound Check back off.

I Have an ipad mini first gen for two years now all great until a few months ago, when the volume just dropped by itself, and i would press the volume and its all the way up... I have to always restart it to make the volume work normal again.like i would be listening to music, a text or notification would pop up and volume goes down and STAYS down.. Not like 20 secs like u guys. i got tired of restarting the ipad, so i would just leave it like that, then one day after a while, not 20 seconds or 5 minutes... I got another notification and the volume went up to sounding normal...so what i do now is just text my ipad everytime my volume goes down, to make it sound normal again. Now its a new thing happening, when im watching a video on facebook or youtube, and i would pause it or switch another video, or even enlarge it, the volume goes down and stays down, like i said, NOT for 20 seconds... Sometimes the texting myself fixes it but not always. And its getting ridiculously annoying! i havent tried that restoring to new thing, because i have bought apps from appstore, and you know "diamonds" from within games, and i dont know if i can get them back if i restore as new :/

Yes this is happening to me too!! My iPhone 6 plus and both of my iPads are doing it. The volume just drops out and you can barely hear. If you rewind or restart the video it does the same thing in the exact same spot. I'm getting really aggravated with this problem.

THANK YOU!

So simple and it worked!