iosiphonemusicnotificationssound-volume
I'm looking for a way to prevent notifications from lowering the volume of music when they come in, as I feel this really distracts from the listening experience.
I would rather not have to turn on Do Not Disturb, but I couldn't find any other setting for this in the Settings app. Is there a way to disable this volume drop without jailbreaking my iPhone?
Turns out I was wrong; you can configure this on iPhone.
As the guide on this page taught me:
Now, in my case it was probably Nearby Friends that I mostly wanted to disable. I ended up turning off some others too:
iTunes has a separate volume control that seems to run independently of the master volume control. It's in the top-left corner, press ⌘↑ or ⌘↓ in iTunes to adjust.
Yours may be too low relative to the master volume.
Skype too has a separate volume control. In the Skype app press ⌥⌘↑ and ⌥⌘↓ to adjust call output volume only.
Best Answer
Put your phone into silent mode.
When your phone is set to ‘silent,’ notifications will no longer disrupt your listening experience, and will still come in as banners and vibrate your phone.
If you also want to stop vibrations, open Settings → Sounds & Haptics and disable
Vibrate on Silent.Note that on older phones (iPhone 6 and older, including SE) have a preference area labelled Sounds instead of Sound and Haptics.