mute button on the iPad pro

Holding the volume button down until it’s muted doesn’t mute notification sounds when the device is locked. To do that, open the control center by swiping up from the bottom of the screen and tapping the bell icon to put the device in silent mode. Not sure why Apple decided to make silent mode separate from mute and make it so you can’t do without opening up the device, but that’s what worked for me.

Now I can only turn volume down to zero on my iPad Pro ios11, there is no appearance of mute whatsoever. I still get system sounds such as keyboard clicks.

Why change an operating system to remove features? I don’t get it. It was working fine before.

I will say that in some ways it’s nice to have the system volume separate from the alert volume - I routinely will watch a video on my ipad, requiring the system volume to be turned up. If the alert volume is tied to the system volume, I would forget to mute it again. I wish they made it a bit more clear and easy to access, but realistically, I’m going to leave my ipad in silent mode most of the time, since I don‘t want it constantly binging when I have it closed.

Yes, it's on the Control Center. The side switch was removed on the iPad Air 2.

The side switch didn't mute music or videos either. When watching a video or listening to music hold the volume down button until Mute appears on the screen.

The mute button only works on the system sounds.

You're welcome. Always glad to help.

My sentiments EXACTLY! So now we’re up to ioS 11.2 already and mute hasn’t been addressed! Come on Apple.

I totally agree they removed something that was fine, now it’s a pain to have to open the control center for a quick mute!! Too much OVERTHINKING a non-problem!