r/ios • u/ZhouYu71 • 1d ago

Discussion iOS 18.4 fixed 1% volume – it’s now quieter

Just updated to iOS 18.4 on iPhone 16 and noticed something great – setting volume to 1% via shortcut is finally much quieter. Watching videos at night is so much better now. Anyone else noticed this?

Note: I never had this issue on iPhone 12, but on my iPhone 16 it was too loud until now.

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u/Competitive_Job_8533 1d ago

Yes just realized it today. Much better now

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u/FawLog 1d ago

Yeah, 1% is quieter than before for sure. My gf's phone is still on 18.3 and the difference is noticeable

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u/Feeling_Actuator_234 1d ago

I never used a shortcut but Siri and it seemed to work. My way didn’t return a true 1%?

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u/SuperAmirhamza iPhone 12 1d ago

I use the late night eq so my speakers are always louder than usual but even then 1% is quite nice

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u/zxzyzd 19h ago

You could’ve always set the volume lower than 1% with shortcuts. There is a pretty big difference between 1% and 0.1%.

I’ve found that lower than 0.001 doesn’t affect the volume any more though.

To do this, you create a Number like 0.001 or 0.0001 and then set the volume to that number by long pressing the volume percentage. If you just press it a slugger shows up, but long pressing allows you to use a variable.

Side effect of 0.0001 is that in the control center the bar will be completely empty, yet it plays music.