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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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neubsdad

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Posted on Apr 30, 2018 7:01 AM

I have a 12 year old with severe Autism. Like a lot of the other posters my son will not turn his iPad down and it is incredibly frustrating that I cannot limit the external speaker volume of the ipad through the iOS software. I ended up putting 2 pieces of scotch tape over each speaker and it reduced the output volume by at least half. It is an unfortunate solution to a problem that Apple could easily fix themselves, but it worked for me. Obviously you'd need to have the iPad in a case that the child cannot open or remove easily. I hope this helps someone.

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Dec 10, 2017 11:28 AM in response to MCSloan

I also have had the exact same problem. It seems very short-sighted that Apple only enables volume level restrictions as they pertain to music. Hello, Apple??? Is anyone listening to this complaint?

Our iPad is 4 years old and no one has EVER listened to music on it. And yet with this volume restriction enabled, our daughter is still able to turn up the volume on her VIDEOS to full-blast.

Help!

Mar 10, 2018 6:01 AM in response to NCFriedSquash

Yeah but if the child kills the app or the app crashes (happens sometimes according to reviews) it stops working. You basically have to babysit the app every time your child picks up the iPad or the volume goes right back up to full blast. I can’t believe Apple doesn’t fix this!

Feb 3, 2019 10:16 AM in response to marcin35

Thanks for making this app! I GLADLY paid the (now $5) fee for the pro version of your app! These cheap folks in here complaining about the price have already spent that much on this morning's cheeseburger. Thanks again!

Feb 11, 2019 3:23 PM in response to mkmartel

Check out the article on Medium about this topic below:

https://medium.com/@cyntaxofficial/apple-ignores-autism-parents-asking-for-volume-limits-9e6a46c7e0f9?source=friends_link&sk=73776032230e141376857dc48445a4f0

mkmartel Author

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Aug 9, 2017 4:05 AM in response to Rysz

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..

Rysz

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Aug 4, 2017 9:26 PM in response to mkmartel

If the setting doesn't "take" (and your son doesn't know your Restrictions password) then there's something wrong. You can try a simple Restart, or a more complicated Restore, but since your iOS is out of date, updating it will accomplish the same objective.

Restart: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201559

Restore: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204184

MCSloan

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Oct 10, 2017 3:12 PM in response to Mumania

Agree. I can’t believe this is the end of this thread. No solution?

Mazda3s

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Dec 24, 2017 2:16 PM in response to Popeye2005

Same problem here. My son keeps cranking the volume during his games even though I have restrictions in place.

agedanna

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Feb 9, 2018 4:50 PM in response to andre74camaro

OMG, thank you! Finally, a solution!

Feb 14, 2018 12:30 PM in response to andre74camaro

thanks so much my 8 year old has autism and likes to have his videos very loud and was driving me insane i can now have peace 🙂

Mar 24, 2018 1:55 PM in response to mkmartel

I could have written that word for word! My autistic son keeps turning the volume ALL the way up as well. Apple PLEASE FIX THIS!!!!

Apr 15, 2018 8:00 AM in response to NCFriedSquash

Apple needs to fix this problem. I battle my son back and forth over the volume while hes watching youtubekids and movies/tv shows.

Eisnikki

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Apr 15, 2018 11:13 AM in response to AlaskanYoung

Make sure you submit directly to product feedback as well. The link is in the comment above yours

Aug 6, 2018 9:41 AM in response to Fr0gPr1nce

The torture continues in our household. Come on Apple!

Aug 11, 2018 3:55 AM in response to mkmartel

Still not addressing this issue? Andriod is looking better and better all the time.

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