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for as long as there have been iPods there have been people who listen to them way too loud I'm Donald Bell and in today's how-to I'm gonna show you how to set a volume limit on your iPhone iPad or iPod and for parents how to lock that setting so your kid will just have to deal with it now before we start and head off and do a hate mail frenzy I'm probably gonna get from teenagers all over the world let's take a minute to acknowledge why people listen to these things too loud most of the time the problem is that music is being pushed through cheap headphones that came included your kid probably loves bass and these cheap earbuds are terrible reproducing low frequencies unless you crank up the volume to full blast so to lessen the sting of locking down your volume or your kids volume make it up with a headphone upgrade scene that has a list of 22 great options for under $50 and for some of you it'll be like hearing your music for the first time alright I've said my piece here's how to lower your maximum volume using an iPhone or iPad or an iPod Touch plug in your headphones and get some music going and raise the volume up to the maximum level you're comfortable with next make a note of the volume level which you'll see down here across the bottom for me is a little over halfway on this iPhone now go back to the home screen then tap Settings and then scroll down and select music next tap the volume limit and pull down the volume slider to the maximum volume level you decided on then tap the back arrow until you're back to the main menu now when you turn the volume level all the way up it shouldn't sound like it's gonna blast off your ears anymore but if you're worried that your kid is gonna go back in and undo the changes here's how to lock down that maximum volume setting with a password head back into settings but this time tap general and then select restrictions next hit enable restrictions at the top of the page and enter a four-digit password and then re-enter it one more time just to confirm now if you want to inflict some real pain you can use the same menu to disable access to all sorts of features and apps but all I'm interested in here is at the bottom where it says volume limit tap that change it to don't allow changes and then back out all the way to the main menu now be sure to remember that password that you created because you'll need it again if you ever want to undo those changes or if you ever want to add extra restrictions because your kids a real jerk more tips like this head over to how to cnet.com and seriously don't forget to upgrade those headphones I'm Tom Bell thanks for watching