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mkmartel Author

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31 points

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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mkmartel Author

Level 1

31 points

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Online tutorials that I find (and probably out of date) tell me to change a setting under "Music" in the settings.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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Aug 18, 2018 9:36 PM in response to mkmartel

I ended up putting two little pieces of electrical tape over the speaker. I couldn’t find out how to lock it and it’s driving me butters too

Aug 27, 2018 8:52 AM in response to mkmartel

Same question also. I done all the restrictions possible on my son's Ipad but the volume level always never worked. Now I see only works with headphones.

Hope iOS 12 maybe has some changes to this.

marcin35

Level 1

4 points

Aug 29, 2018 8:04 AM in response to fanofmets12

I checked iOS 12 beta, nothing has changed. You must use some external app to limit the volume.

Sep 15, 2018 12:05 AM in response to marcin35

This is not solved. Your selling it for $10.

Feb 3, 2019 10:18 AM in response to Z mann R2

Oh and Apple, thanks for NOTHING!

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