How to turn media volume up on iphone

You can make your phone's volume louder or quieter. You can also change your ringtone, sound, and vibration.

Important:

• Some of these steps work only on Android 12 and up. Learn how to check your Android version.
• Some of these steps require you to touch the screen.

Turn your volume up or down

1. Press a volume button.
2. At the right, tap the Menu 
   .
   • If you don't find Settings, go to the steps for older Android versions.

3. Slide the volume levels to where you want them:
   • Media volume: Music, videos, games, and other media
   • Call volume: Volume of the other person during a call
   • Ring & notification volume: Phone calls, and notifications
   • Alarm volume

Tips:

• To have your Google Assistant change your phone's volume for you, say or tap Hey Google, change volume.
• If your phone is paired to more than one Bluetooth device, you can change where you hear music, videos, and games. Under "Media volume," tap Play media to.
• When you press a volume button, the volume that changes depends on what you're doing. For example, if you're watching a movie, the movie volume changes. If you press your volume buttons when you're not listening to anything, your media volume changes.

Turn on vibrate or mute

1. Press a volume button.
2. At the right, above the slider, tap Ring
   .

Change what happens when you press Power + Volume up

Tip: To quickly turn on vibrate, press Power + Volume up.

1. Open your phone's Settings app.
2. Tap Sound & vibration
   Shortcut to prevent ringing.
3. Turn Prevent ringing on or off.
   • If you don't see "Prevent ringing," go to the steps for older Android versions.

4. Choose what happens when you press Power and Volume up:
   • Vibrate: Phone calls and notifications vibrate
   • Mute: Phone calls and notifications are silent

Change ringtones

Change your ringtone

1. Open your phone's Settings app.
2. Tap Sound & vibration
    Phone ringtone.
3. Pick a ringtone.
4. Tap Save.

Change other sounds & vibrations

Choose keyboard sounds & vibrations

To change typing sounds and vibrations, you may need to change your keyboard's settings. For example, to change Gboard sounds:

1. Open your phone's Settings app.
2. Tap System
   Languages & input.
3. Tap Virtual keyboard
   Gboard.
4. Tap Preferences.
5. Turn on or off:
   • Sound on keypress
   • Haptic feedback on keypress
     Note: If you don't see "Haptic feedback on keypress," tap Vibrate on keypress.

Tip: If you have Gboard "Haptic feedback on keypress" turned on, make sure that "Touch vibration" is also on. Learn how to turn on "Touch vibration."

Change emergency broadcast settings

You can turn alert types on or off, find past alerts, and control sound and vibration.

1. On your phone, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Notifications
    Wireless emergency alerts.
3. Choose how often you want to receive alerts and which settings you want to turn on.

You can use this setting to manage certain emergency messages, like disaster warnings, threat notifications, and AMBER alerts.

If you use an older Android version

Change what happens when you press Power + Volume up

1. Open your phone's Settings app.
2. Tap Sound
   Shortcut to prevent ringing.
3. Tap Press Power & Volume Up together.
4. Choose what happens:
   • Vibrate: Phone calls and notifications vibrate
   • Mute: Phone calls and notifications are silent
   • Do nothing

Turn your volume up or down

1. Press a volume button.
2. At the right, tap the Down arrow 
   .
3. Choose the volume type:

Tip: You can also change volumes from your Settings app 

Turn on vibrate

To have your phone vibrate only (not make sounds), press and hold the volume down button until your phone vibrates.

If your media volume gets turned down instead:

• At the right, tap the Down arrow
  .
• Slide "Ring" all the way to the left.

Tip: When your phone is in vibrate mode, you'll see Vibrate 

Related resources

• Control your notifications
• Silence your phone with Do Not Disturb
• Set, cancel, or snooze alarms

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