Shit even with headphones, I don't need this crap because I ain't using some POS headphones without their own volume control.

What are you using that does that? That's annoying af.

With the removal of the headphone jack, phones have lost the ability to not know what is plugged in. USB and Bluetooth devices have information that the phone could account for but chooses not to.

My phone warns me I've been listening to music at a dangerous volume for a dangerous amount of time 100% of the time when I'm driving and listening via aux.

yeah lol, I'm often plugging in slightly high impedance headphones that it just can't drive very well. it's never seemed worth it run run a dac or get a special pair of phone headphones. i rarely use it that way anyway.

but yeah, pretty much every time i plug them in i have to confirm i want to hurt myself before it will allow them to be set to a useable volume.

and yes, i do still have a headphone jack, they are still out there if you're willing to not get a super expensive phone.

I really hate that “no one:” shit, it often doesn’t make any sense to me.

If you have high impedance headphones and you're not using a headphone preamp you're not getting everything you paid for out of those cans.

I think it's a legal thing so they're probably not allowed to get rid of it.

Hmm I'm in (western) Europe and don't get any volume warnings at all. Not sure why.

your phone doesnt change it back when you disconnect Bluetooth? that's harsh.

Mine warn me only when it's purposeful. As you say, if I change output devices, and the sound is too loud, it says nothing. It literally only interferes with me doing something I'm purposefully choosing to do, and failing to protect me from shit I'm doing accidentally.

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There's an app for that: https://github.com/zacharee/Tweaker

You'll need to use adb to grant special permissions that an app can't request on its own.

adb shell pm grant com.zacharee1.systemuituner android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
adb shell pm grant com.zacharee1.systemuituner android.permission.PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS
adb shell pm grant com.zacharee1.systemuituner android.permission.DUMP

• Audio & Sound --> Disable Safe Audio Warning --> Disabled
• Persist Options --> Checkbox Disable Safe Audio Warning

I agree with the concern you're raising, but most of the time I ran into it, I was using bluetooth to a radio that had its own volume control. The phone was just reacting to the volume setting, not listening and knowing it was too loud.

I haven't seen that happen in a long time, though. I saw elsewhere in the thread there was a way to disable it, so I might have done that, but I don't recall seeing it at all on the newer Samsung S24 I got early this year.

If you're connected to a device that has independent volume management, then you can max out the phone volume and still have it be too quiet.

I most often run into this with my speaker setup in my workout room if I forget to turn up the volume on the receiver before hopping on the treadmill.

But, the other reason to not go too high is the audio can start degrading if the volume is too high on your phone.

You're dependent upon the recording you're listening to having been set to a decent volume to begin with. I will occasionally come across videos or music with significantly quieter sound than usual. I know what a good volume for my need at the moment is, while this warning is a dumb automatic pop-up based solely upon the single factor of the master device volume control setting - without any consideration for the actual decibels being output.