Alert volume tied to device volume in iOS 8

Yup, same problem here. It's the most annoying thing ever. It must be an ios 8 bug because I never had this happen in any previous version of the software. Do you hook the phone up via bluetooth at all? This problem occurs for me after my phone connects with my car's bluetooth system. Once I turn the car off and the device obviously disconnects from my car, this problem ALWAYS happens. I went to the genius bar to make them aware, all they had me do was submit a ticket. Odds are we will be dealing with this for a LONG time since it seems no one else is bringing it up.

Forgot to mention, right now the only way to get notifications volume back to using the ringer volume (as it should) is to restart your phone. So every time I get out of my car I have to restart my phone, how silly and inconvenient is that?

It would be great to raise some awareness on this issue so it will be seen and fixed.

Same problem here. The issue happened since iOS 7 for my iPad in my case. Now I am at iOS 8.1 with my iPhone 6 it still happens. Also iOS 8.1.1 does not fix this problem. It happens to me when I use the text to speech function. In my case it is not just the tie of volume and alert. Instead I think is the hookup of siri volume and alert and the regular volume. I hope they do fix this soon.

I Have just confirmed that this problem occurs at least in two cases: after I use the tts to read screen, and after I listen to podcast.i do have found a temporary solution: in my case I can use a so called soft reset to get back normal. Namely you just hold the power until the power off prompt. Then release the power button and hold home for 10 seconds until the home pops out itself. Accordingly this method terminates all the user generated processes in the background including the process that causes this volume issue. Try it and see if it fixes you problem. It works for me as a temporary solution.

Well yeah, of course that is a temporary solution, until you trip it to start doing it again. In which case another temporary fix is needed. In my case a temporary fix is needed EVERY time I disconnect from a bluetooth device, most notably my car audio. Think about having the soft reset your phone every time you turn off your car. I'm sorry but we do not buy these devices to have the DEAL with temporary fixes. No, we buy these devices to have them work properly as promised.

Thank you,

your advice "read screen" helps me very much. There I set volume up and this volume also changed in notification.

It is very stupid bug.

I find out that aplication Podcast changes sound volume for notification in my iPhone.

This happens on my iPhone 6 (iOS 8.3) after disconnecting from my car's bluetooth as well. If I have used any application with plus/minus-controlled audio (videos, music, etc.), my Messages notifications ignore the system settings for Volume in favor of what was set in the media application.

I haven't tried restarting to fix, but that makes sense. The easier "fix" for me is to open a media application and turn down the output volume to match.

This bug is painful. Is there a better place to document this so that it will get fixed?