The Headphone Notifications feature notifies you if you’ve been listening to loud audio via headphones by analyzing your headphone audio levels, and checks if you’ve reached the recommended 7-day audio exposure limit. This is a feature that some users may really want to enable, while other users may not want the headphone notifications and wish to turn them off.
How to Enable / Disable Headphone Notifications on iPhone
For starters, you need to make sure that your iPhone is running at least iOS 14.5 or later, since earlier versions do not support this feature.
Open the Settings app from the home screen of your iPhone.
In the settings menu, scroll down and select “Accessibility”.
Next, scroll down to the Hearing section and select the “Audio/Visual” option to proceed.
Here, you’ll find the Headphone Notifications setting. Simply toggle the switch ON to start using this feature, or OFF to turn headphone notifications off.
Keep in mind that your iPhone only analyzes the audio that you’re listening to on your headphones, and not the sound that’s coming out of the internal speakers. Also, the 7-day exposure limit only applies to media volume, and phone calls won’t get counted towards this.
While this particular feature is located under accessibility settings, it can also be accessed from the sound settings menu. Just go to Settings -> Sound & Haptics -> Headphone Safety to access the same toggle.
