Why can’t Headphone Safety in iPhone just fucking respect the Type of my Bluetooth Device?!

Why the fuck does it HAVE to reduce the sound of my Bluetooth speaker even though the Device Type is set as fucking speaker!!

Do whatever the fuck with “accurate measurements” of audio levels but just don’t fucking treat my headphones and speaker as same when I explicitly set them differently!

For Andromeda’s sake!

Speakers can be too loud just as well as headphones

@electrineer Seriously dude? I don’t put speakers on my ears. So there is no sense in treating it same as headphones.

@Cyanide they just need to use more power to get the same loudness to your ears

@electrineer The specificity of your logic is increasing. Which clearly supports my point that Apple’s solution of reducing loud sounds is bullshit, logically.

You should be able to customize the safety so that it's actually useful, but of course that would be against every design principle on apple. Sadly, android is no better regarding headphone safety, at least not with wired speakers.

@electrineer My point is that if Apple can respect Bluetooth Device’s Type for accurate measurements in Health app then why the fuck can it not use that same Device Type to not reduce loud sounds when it’s a fucking speaker instead of headphones!

Android is no better in headphone safety because there isn’t any such thing in Android. But then atleast it doesn’t try force something down my throat in the name of “safety”!

Mine did that to me today. I was riding on a bike in noisy areas wearing a bone-conducting Trekz headset. With those you have to crank the volume because they’re not in-ear and bone conduction volume is NOT the same as in-ear. But Apple “cares” about me so I have to fiddle with their settings to get them out of my life.

@Cyanide I use one old android phone to listen to Internet radio. I keep it connected to my amp from the headphone jack. Hearing protection keeps resetting the volume so I have to increase it back to maximum daily. I want to keep it at maximum so that it's closer to the volume of the other sources that are connected to the amp. Otherwise, when I switched to the TV it would SUDDENLY BE EXTREMELY LOUD.

I'm sure there's a way to disable hearing protection on android, but I haven't yet been arsed to find it out.

get rid of that stupid "feature" altogether. people stupid enough to cause themselves deafness deserve it.

Every fucking device does that. So annoying. It's completely useless because it doesn’t take into account the intrinsic loudness of the speakers or ear buds and it doesn’t take into account the loudness of the played content (songs).
You are left with an arbitrary volume limitation where you either can’t hear anything because it’s too quiet or it’s still too loud, because the record is overdriven.

I hate this shit!