Hearing Wellness on Android 15

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I have a Pixel 9 running Android 16 (the beta) and in the past week encountered the volume being turned down automatically by the phone when a Bluetooth audio device is connected as part of something called Hearing Wellness. The phone does this to protect your hearing if it thinks the volume has been too loud for too long but I've been on the 16 beta for a while and never had this until now (and have found out it's actually a 'feature' from Android 15) and it's annoying as hell.

I've heard reports from other Redditors of Samsung phones doing it too on Android 15 so I'm just wondering if anyone has had this problem themselves using phones from other manufacturers like OnePlus or Honor etc.

Posted Dec 29, 2025, 7:49 PM UTC

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