Today I learned that iPad and iPhone have sound controls for notifications (separate from the device volume), which also applies to things like tapping FB controls.<\/p>\r\n
(Note: Please don\u2019t tell me to switch to non-Apple devices. That\u2019s annoying and not helpful.)<\/p>\r\n
I\u2019ve known for a long time that device volume was context-dependent; using the volume-control buttons in a given context doesn\u2019t necessarily affect the volume in other contexts. But for the most part, I keep audio turned off on all of my devices, so it didn\u2019t matter much. And I used to intentionally keep audio notifications turned on, because it used to be (iIrc) that when the device volume was turned off, audio notifications caused the device to vibrate, which was usually helpful to me.<\/p>\r\n
But lately I\u2019ve had several particularly annoying audio issues, involving too-loud audio notifications even when my device volume is set to zero. I think most of these have only started happening in the past few months, or sometimes the past few weeks. Below is a list of such issues and how I\u2019ve now fixed them.<\/p>\r\n
Whew. I\u2019m hoping that that set of changes will solve most of my too-loud-alerts problems, and if it doesn\u2019t, now I know where most of the controls are to make further changes.<\/p>\r\n
But I do find it annoying that there doesn\u2019t seem to be a centralized place where I can say \u201cDon\u2019t give me audio notifications.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
(This is all somewhat complicated by the fact that I *do* want reasonably loud audio notification in one specific situation: When I set a wake-up alarm. I\u2019m still not clear on whether the volume for that is separate from the volume for all these other things.)<\/p>\r\n