Bluetooth Headphones Too Loud

Darn! I was hoping you had an iPhone solution.

Weird. My Bose QC35s and my PowerBeats 3 both have a full range of sound from virtually silent to deafeningly loud, controlled either from their volume control or from my iPhone 7. Perhaps there is a problem with certain brands. Have you contacted the manufacturer?

The PowerBeats 3 uses the new W1 chip designed for iOS connectivity. Perhaps Bose is unaffected as well for some reason. I'd be more interested if anybody has less expensive in-ear bluetooth earphones that don't have the issue. These are the specific ones that have the issue for me:

iFrogz Impulse Wireless

Jabra Halo Smart

Anear Bluetooth Headphones

All of these are made in the last year are two and are sub-$75. The very lowest volume is substantially loud at best, uncomfortably loud at worst. I've tested on two iPhones and an iPad. I may try to invest in a nicer pair to see if that solves it, but what's maddening is they work perfectly on various Android devices.

Apple -- the problem includes how loud the os interfaces are. Right now I'm typing with the click sound turned on and it's almost deafening. I won't dare send a text because the swish will do me in. Please fix your operating system!!!!! I have zero control using any of the temp solutions people have provided.

My current BT headsets are a Parrot Zik noise-canceling, a Blueant Q3 and just-received Airpods. The Zik has a volume control that goes from zero to ear-shattering, and it controls the phone's volume. The Airpods don't have a volume control, but the control on the phone also goes from inaudible to TOO LOUD. The Q3 likewise has a full range, although it isn't stereo. In the past I have used 2 different Plantronics Voyager series, and they both had a full volume range. I don't recall if they controlled the phone's volume, but I think they did. I also have a Fugoo BT stereo speaker, and it's volume range is also zero to full.

Omg! Same...I also just got a new wireless Bluetooth headphones yesterday and I got the same problem as yours. Even in the lowest volume it still very loud and it hurt my ears. But, Let say fortunately I just found out that the next and previous music player button and the volume button is same... you just have to hold the button to make it louder and lower. I don't know what kind of headphones you got tho. I saw your comment yesterday and I sing in to this community to try to help you guys. Hope this help you....sorry for my English.

I was having this problem with my Tzumi Bluetooth sport earbuds and I think I have found a technique that works for me but I don't know if they will work for everyone. What I did was I put the volume at the lowest setting it would go without muting it. I then paused it and while being paused I turned the volume up a few notches, I then I paused the music and once Unpaused I turned the volume back down and the volume seemed to be at a much lower level. This worked for me so I thought I would share.

It's clearly not my earbuds fault, I have a similar issue, and literally everything else I pair my wireless earbuds to has a full range of sound from nothing to earsplitting, and then with my iPhone the first step is boarding on the edge of uncomfortably loud. They work perfect with my computer, my friends android, my android tablet, and a windows phone, but not my iPhone 7 plus. Of course beats work, apple owns beats, its almost like they did this on purpose so you have to buy their expensive products.

I can confirm the issue is with iOS. Been using ipad with Philips AE2700 bluetooth audio receiver already two years. Everything worked flawless until the iOS update, not the last one but one prior to it. Have had the same problem since and rendered the iPad essentially unusable with audio.

I'm having the same issue with 2 different brands of Bluetooth earbuds. The volume control on both works independently on my husband's Android devise but only controls the iPhone volume on my iPhone 7. I'd love to be able to solve this problem. A fix from Apple seems to be in order.

I have this problem with my new Sennheiser HD 4.40 BT headphones as well. No issue with Macbook, Nexus 6p or Windows, just my iPhone SE/iPad. All other headphone controls work as expected (navigating tracks, stop/start, etc)

Very disappointing to see that this issue has been around for a while in other threads with seemingly no real response from Apple.

Same issue here with Bose quitecomfort 35 latest version of the firmware and app on iPhone 6s, iOS 10.3.3, Spotify latest version.

In the older versions, it was possible to get a low enough sound, not anymore after the latest software updates.

I've tried adjusting the iOS volume limit, minimizing all bands of the Spotify equalizer, none of these work. It seems QC35 is way too loud, powerful for iPhones.

As mentioned before, the problem only happens with music. Audible books are ok.

Is that only with the iPhones in music app? Or does it also occur when you're streaming music with an app like Spotify or using another player? I also have the Bose QC 35, and use the latest version of iOS. Everything works fine with all audio apps, including Apple's Music app.

Same problem with Marshall MID Bluetooth, so annoying, I am either damaging my ears or plugging in the headphones in... So the bluetooth function is in fact useless. Had prayed for ios11 to fix this, but it didn’t. Extremely disapointed in Apple... Again.

I have 3 different BT headsets, and a BT speaker. The volume controls on all of them work perfectly over the full range. If your headphones don't the problem is with the headset, not the iPhone. You should be contacting the headset manufacturer to discuss why their product does not comply with the Bluetooth standard.