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How to limit volume on iPad? (iOS 10.2+)

My son has autism and loves to watch videos on iPad. However, he loves turning the volume all the way up, no matter how much I turn it down or ask him to turn it down. There is no reasoning with him on this. The second I turn my head he turns it all the way up, and it drives me crazy. I've gone to the restrictions part of settings and enabled the "Do not allow changes" part of the "Volume Limit", but that didn't do anything. The volume can still be changed very easily.


You can't tell me after all these years Apple doesn't have a way to set a max volume on a device??

Posted on Aug 4, 2017 8:56 PM

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Posted on Aug 9, 2017 4:05 AM

So I updated his iPad and tried again to the current iOS. However that didn't work either. I even tested it on my brand new iPhone 7 I got two days ago, and I couldn't limit my volume on there either. Please tell me if I'm doing these steps right?


I'm using my control center to put a volume I find appropriate, and then I'm going into my restrictions in settings, typing in my password, and enabling the "Volume Limit" "Do not allow changes". Yet the second I leave my settings and go back to the control center the volume goes up and down to my choosing. No limit on it at all.


Online tutorials that I find (and probably out of date) tell me to change a setting under "Music" in the settings. However I do not have anything in my settings labeled "Music". So I'm really at a loss of what I should be doing..

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Sep 15, 2018 3:20 AM in response to makeapplegreateagain

I have recently made the app paid (with free trial) but this does not change the fact that the app solves the problem. You can set the volume limit that works on the main speaker.


At the beginning, the app was free because it did not generate huge costs. I had to pay only app store fees, they were not big money so I paid it with private money. However, now I want to translate app into additional languages. This is a big expense and I do not want to cover it out of my own pocket. I'm not a businessman. I do mobile apps in my free time, I do not have any extra budget for it.


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Oct 6, 2018 1:08 AM in response to marcin35

**SOLUTION**


I have discovered that if your child turns the iPad up after you’ve asked them not to, what I do is, I take the iPad away for a day and we try again the next day. There’s no answer how long the process takes, could be a day or it could be a month!


However I guarantee sooner or later that they’ll stop turning the iPad up giving us parents some peace whilst they’re distracted!

Dec 24, 2018 7:22 PM in response to mkmartel

I had the same problem and was as frustrated as everyone else. By chance I realized I had not actually been listen to the headphones after the volume restriction, only responding when I saw that my son had turned the volume meter to the max. After putting on the headphones I realized that he was maxing it out BECAUSE of the restriction. The meter ends at the MAX I had set. So when I moved it to the middle, it was way to low for him to hear. I’d been frustrating him the whole time. Hope this helps. I haven’t checked without the headphones yet.

How to limit volume on iPad? (iOS 10.2+)

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