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Reduce volume on iPhone/iPod touch games iOS devices
The iPhone app store is great, but some of the apps are poorly designed. One such design flaw can be seen in certain games that have music, but no volume control. This can often be fixed with the physical volume control on the iPhone, but what if you have an iPod touch, and the in-game music is too loud for your tastes?

It turns out that the new volume limit feature is a global setting, not just applicable to iPod music playback Go to Settings » Music » Volume Limit from the home screen, and set it to an agreeable level. This will automatically lower the volume of those pesky games.

You have to set it back when you're done, if you want to have your iPod music louder, of course.
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Reduce volume on iPhone/iPod touch games
Authored by: asmeurer on Jul 28, '08 03:49:26PM

It seems that there is a separate "Device Volume" setting that some games will let you set, such as Enigmo, which will apply to all other games. Someone needs to write a simple "Device Volume" app.



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Reduce volume on iPhone/iPod touch games
Authored by: chrisrosa on Jul 30, '08 01:26:54PM

Using the hardware volume rocker switch to select the volume while a 3rd party app is active seems to set a volume level that applies to other applications.

I was bugged by this last night at a movie when I had the mute switch on. One would think this would apply to all sounds coming from the phone, but apparently is only the ringer and notifications. I even set the volume in Settings > Sounds, but just now noticed that's only for "Ring".

It's odd that there isn't a central volume control, but finding that the hardware volume control works will help.



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Reduce volume on iPhone/iPod touch games
Authored by: asmeurer on Aug 07, '08 08:56:13AM

The volume button on the iPhone controls the "device volume" I was talking about, but iPod touches don't have volume buttons.



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Reduce volume on iPhone/iPod touch games
Authored by: richgregwood on Aug 15, '08 10:25:02PM

the other option is to hit the home button twice to access the ipod controls, which allows you to change the volume. this only works on the ipod touch, as on the iphone if you have the home button setting on ipod, it takes you to the ipod appilcation, rather than giving you a pop up.



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