iPhone 6 Music Volume Drop After Notification

To think I'm having this problem when people have identified it last year ugh.

When I notice the volume is quite low (usually when it's plugged into my car with the aux cord) I have to start recording a snapchat, then the volume shoots up and is back to the right volume. Its a pain though, because sometimes I'm doing this 3 or 4 times within the space of 3 songs

Try disabling the video autoplay feature on the facebook app. Its likely that its attempting to play a video in the background while you were scrolling through your news feed.
Open Facebook app / more / account settings / video and photo / autoplay / disable autoplay.

This will also probably happen with other autoplay videos such as news sites etc on safari / chrome...

I'm going to give this a shot. I had been reliant on the fast forward fix until I read this thread and started swiping away the Facebook app. Hopefully the autoplay option turned off will work.

It return back to Original volume when you kill the app on the background that send the notifications . It was facebook for me.

I've read through the articles and did A LOT of testing. The problem comes down to the Facebook app and its handling of audio on your phone. The specifics are related to auto-play of videos and scrolling through the news feed.

Notice that any app that uses audio shows up in the tray when you swipe up on the phone? If you play a video from the YouTube app and swipe up on the phone, you will see the audio level and a long URL. If you play music from iTunes on the phone, the artist info and song info will show up in the tray. EXCEPT, when you play a video from the Facebook app, it DOES NOT show up in the tray.

So, the Facebook app handles audio on your phone like a notification, and when a notification is paired with audio, the native audio control on the iPhone drops your music/podcast volume by half (or to zero) to allow the sound of the notification to come through. This must be a bug with the Facebook app. I tried changing all of the possible settings in the app to fix the problem, but I had no luck.

The solution, delete the Facebook app and use Safari on your phone to access Facebook. Playing the same videos from Facebook through Safari will now show up in the tray with the url string.

Hope this helps someone. We need to direct this attention to Facebook support and not Apple support. It's not Apple's problem.

Also, I think it's safe to say that any app that handles audio playback like a notification will cause this same problem to occur.

So, the Facebook app handles audio on your phone like a notification, and when a notification is paired with audio, the native audio control on the iPhone drops your music/podcast volume by half (or to zero) to allow the sound of the notification to come through

what does that mean?

Ace, take a look at the photo. You see how my podcast is displayed in the tray when I swipe up on the phone? I can control the audio from there. Same if I play a video from Safari or YouTube.

This is not the case when I play a video from the Facebook app. It does not appear here. Just as a notification for text or email does not appear here. You cannot pause a text message sound from here. So, the Facebook app is handling audio on the iPhone like a notification. It's not controllable by the user. Notifications on the iPhone seem to have priority, so audio currently playing on the iPhone will be dropped by half to allow the sound of the notification to come through. The Facebook app seems to have the same control over audio but gets stuck at limiting audio volume.

SAme problem here! WFT Apple? Steve Jobs is cursing you from the other side of life!

I Suspected it was facebook, but its def Apple because same crap happens to me on waze and Maps app. Been well over a year since this problem submerged!

THe fastest work around that I have found is after the music lowers in volume after a notification simply activate Siri and deactivate Siri this will return the volume to the correct level. Hopefully Apple will fix this in a future update soon. I am on 8.4 just incase you are wondering.

Hello,

This issue of music volume dropping has been winding me up for a while now not even the latest ios update made any difference but what I have found is if you press the select button twice and kill any apps/pages etc running in the background the music volume performs correctly.

Bump, I am still having this problem. Brand new iphone 6 I purchased 2 weeks ago. **** it apple, why can't you fix it already? people have been having this problem late last year it seems.

Only way to get completely uninterrupted music is to set iPhone to airplane mode.

It's good to know I'm not going nuts and to discover so many people complaining about this issue. I can't believe the lenght of this post and the fact that Apple hasn't done anything about it (or at least commented on the issue). It definitely has to do with the notifications (not only Facebook but any other app that handles "sounds" in the same way); thus, Apple ought to really take a look on this issue.

It's annoying!

I have this same issue if I just change songs, so that seems it is more than an issue with FB. I don't have the auto play on for FB either.

+1 with the same problem. iPhone 6 Plus. iOS 8.4.1.

When playing music. Sound lowers like it does when a notification is incoming. But no notification is shown or heard. The volume then goes up again.

And sometimes I'm stuck with low volume.