How to use volume control on Apple AirPods
Apple Airpods provide excellent audio quality. They have built-in noise cancellation and few Bluetooth headphones provide the same level of comfort and audio quality that AirPods do.
Volume control on Apple Airpods
Apple’s AirPods are built to work with its products. They are especially built to cater to an iPhone. The AirPods replaced Apple’s wired headphones. These headphones came with controls for volume, and music playback. AirPods have similar controls for music playback but they do not have a dedicated gesture for controlling the volume. Here’s how you can change the volume using your AirPods.
Use volume control on Apple Airpods
The AirPods do not have built-in gestures for controlling the volume. Instead, you can change the volume by invoking Siri.
You have to first set up Siri to activate with a tap gesture on the AirPods.
- Connect AirPods to your iPhone.
- Open the Settings app.
- Go to Bluetooth.
- Tap the i button next to the AirPods.
- Select an AirPod, either the left or the right one to execute the tap gesture.
- Select Siri.
Now that Siri is set to activate with your AirPods, you can change the volume through it.
- Tap the AirPod that is configured with Siri.
- When Siri is active, use any one of the following commands to change the volume
Hey Siri, increase the volume Hey Siri, increase the volume to 60 Hey Siri, turn the volume up
These same commands can be modified to reduce the volume as well.
Hey Siri, lower the volume Hey Siri, lower the volume to 40 Hey Siri, turn the volume down
There are no non-verbal ways to change the volume i.e., if you’re trying to do it quietly, you’re going to have to use the volume controls on the side of your iPhone. If you happen to have an Apple Watch paired with your phone, you can use the crown to control the volume as well.
Conclusion
The AirPods support gestures for controlling playback i.e., you can use them to play or pause music, and you can use them to skip to the next or jump to the previous song. There isn’t much room left for volume controls with everything else. The gestures are not customizable which means they can only ever control music playback. While it’s an unfortunate limitation, chances are you don’t change the volume of your iPhone as often as you need to play/pause music, or switch between tracks.
