SOLVED! Why is Apple CarPlay volume so low compared to Sirius or FM HD radio? 

Go to settings. Music. Turn sound check off. Saved you five minutes

This guy loves the sound of his own voice, save yourself 6 minutes. Settings > Music > Scroll down and turn sound check off.

Wow! This has been driving me nuts ever since I bought my new truck. At certain points in a song you want to crank it hard and rock to that guitar riff but it just wasn’t happening. Can’t wait for my next road trip to really enjoy my tunes. Thanks so much!!

Omg! I’m so glad I ran across this video! Was so frustrating that I could never figure out why Apple Music was so much lower than standard radio music. Thank you so much!

BRO.... Found this video in a random forum while trying anything and everything to troubleshoot my premium alpine sound system and why the quality suddenly dropped off when streaming and using CarPlay. The stupid ass sound check feature must have been turned on after an iPhone update. I wish I would have found this video so much sooner. I've been to the dealership twice, online countless hours, updated and reset nearly everything on the Jeep and it was just this stupid little setting. Thanks my man!

Thank you for this! It's been driving me crazy wondering what was making my music so quiet lately or if I was going deaf, but after turning off the Sound Check which I didn't realize was on after getting my new phone, much better! I noticed it just makes my metal songs more quiet which kind of goes against the whole point of that type of music.

2 years later - and still dumb that you need to do this! Thank you so much!!!!!! I’m on a 2023 Goldwing motorcycle and it was driving me nuts lol. Appreciate it!

As a fellow metal head myself.. this is such a huge help! We need to turned up to 11 lol

Settings->Bluetooth->Car media name (i)-> Device type -> Car stereo. This fixed the dimmed volume for me.

You’re a legend in my book. I’m over here with the new 19 speaker 950 watt McIntosh system going insane because my 04 4Runner had better sound lol. Thank you so much for this.

You are both a gentleman and a scholar, thank you very much sir. This has been driving me insane lol!

Fantastick. That fixed my wife's carplay integration on her new Mazda. I am so glad I don't have to deal with any of these problems with my Tesla. Zero buttons compared to wife's over 50 buttons. It's incredible how easy a good 15" screen UI is compared to buttons.

Thanks! Fought this issue again just today and now stumbled on your video. Awesome.

I can stop taking my blood pressure meds now. Thank you so much!

what a difference! I was about to have a amp installed. Also on i phone, if you go to music in settings and then go to EQ and select Late Night this will also increase volume.

That’s awesome! I have an eBay android based radio and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why the sample song that comes preloaded on the radio was louder then my Apple Music. Thanks so much for showing us!

Omg!, I was gonna replace the whole sound system!!! You are amazing thank you!!!!

You need an award for this video.

I got a ram 1500 limited I was about to take it to the dealership but I did notice the difference between radio and Apple car play, needless to say I follow your instructions and my system is working like a champ

THANK YOU. I’ve always had sound check off and didn’t think about checking it. iPhone did an update and it must have turned it back on. It’s been driving me nuts. Thanks to you, I’m back to working on going deaf in the Jeep.

"Sound Check" was disabled already. This video is basically only for people who use Apple Music. I use Spotify and Pandora, and to have my music actually "rocking out" loud, my volume ends up on like 68. Having to turn your volume up to 68 is absolutely absurd. You have to turn it way down if you get a phone call, or switch to radio, or you will blow your speakers and eardrums out. I hope they fix this nonsense soon.

I had to skip ahead because I didn’t feel like I was going to get to the solution or answer

Oh my goodness I love you. I just bought a new car and the stereo sometimes loud sometimes isn’t I was going absolutely bonkers. I was gonna take my car back to the dealer and feel really stupid and tell him why my radio is so low, but thank you so much. I hope that makes the difference.

Cant thank you enough for this! Your an ABSOLITE LEGEND in my book bro

I thought it was just me. Thank you for this.

This just helped so much, I was so pissed on how low my CarPlay was I was getting ready to buy a new head unit and speakers, this just saved so much money. Thank you.

This helps a lot thank you so much. It’s been driving me crazy trying to figure out why my music isn’t loud enough. 😂😂

Finally!! I got a 2018 Dodge Durango and I was messing with the EQ, didn’t think to turn the sound check off!!!! Thanks

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I'm very grateful for this advice. The problem has been driving me nuts.

Thank you couldn't find a cure any where else ,you saved my sanity!!!!!!

You’re a godfam music SAINT ! You go to Heaven for this. Thank you dude. I was losing it.

Wow. You are a star. I bought a new car-play and the sound it was sometimes ok sometimes bad. I thought it is because of the connectivity..I switched between bluetooth to aux and drive me crazy..I wanted to return the product and to gave a big negative review. Now I sorted the sound quality thankfully

this could have been a 5 second long video dude this was panful but a good fix

Top 5 video ALL TIME I WAS GOING CRAZY

That was great man. Laughed my a$$ off and fixed my issue at the same time!

Thank you so so so much!!! I’ve been googling for days to find a solution. So glad I found u!

Ty for sharing your findings on this. Appreciate the details and troubleshooting effort.

I love the drama you bring to this!

This was exactly my problem! Fixed it! As one metal head to another, thank you!

You found the hole 😅 This is really helpful. Since one year I was facing this issue. But did or recognize that. Somebody attached the android phone and it was quite loud. I thought my system is buggy.

i listen to metal and suddenly my speakers were super quiet after using the talk/listening feature so i’ll have to give this a shot i hope it works thank you fellow metal brother

You are a beautiful human being. Thank you

It solved the problem immediately, thank you!!!!!

Omg just thank you may all the gods bless you for posting this🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Broooo😂!!! Thank you helped so much i was so close to buy some new speakers 🔊 cuz i was like they not loud enough so i when to try this out and damn it was load 😂thanks again man

FINALLY!!! This was driving me NUTS! Thanks!!! Ps. Great taste in music. 🤘🏽

Man look this helped so much and I like how you were cussing 😂 it was bat shit crazy I’ve wondered for years why my Apple was so low

Thank you for posting the video I actually found a workaround where I reverted back to 15.3.1 on my iOS on my i phone which got rid of the problem I did try your Soundcheck on off but because I’ve blocked all updates on my iOS it’s no longer is an issue and when using the iPhone, sound check function like you did my sound is unaffected. but like yourself it drove me crazy and I found a blog that said Apple had an attenuator function and didn’t let me anyone know, and like a lot of other people I like my music loud ! Rock on ! thank you very much for your post and hopefully turning off sound check will allow me to continue purchasing iPhone because I was gonna go back to android because of this issue so I’m going to try it out on my wife’s phone which has iPhone iOS 16+ and I’m gonna try to see if sound check on/off on her rogue works tonight thanks again!

I would never have found this on my own. Many thanks!

WOW! Thanks I was going crazy trying to figure that out. Especially with the GPS voice. My poor family had to keep quiet in the car so that I could hear the directions, LOL.

Didn't work for me. Jensen aftermarket ALWAYS starts at 11 for iphone maps, audible books, all of it. And every time I start the car, I have to start over to bring it up to 20 or so. I'd hoped your system would fix that, but no luck. Glad you fixed it for others!

thank you!! i was about to pay 100$s for a system. but thank you!' you saved me lots of money

Thank you, thank you. I have had this annoying problem for years. You are awesome!

I’ve had this issue since I got my Malibu. Next time I get in the car I’m gonna see if this helped. Thank you!

Thank so much. This was driving my wife and I insane!

Thank you brotha u just saved me a whole stereo upgrade.

Thank you so much, this has been driving me mad.

My sound check is off and I am still having this problem!

Thank you very much !!! I really didn't know what is happening with the apple car play on my new Volkswagen tiguan allspace premium elegance 2022. I knew that something is wrong but now I understand why👌😊

Thanks for the frustration, effort, and time! 👍🏼👍🏼

I frickin love you, dude ! Thank you for this

Guys, just turn off your ringer on your phone and you should be able to adjust your volume instead of it being stuck on guidance volume. That was the solution I was looking for

Thank you 100% helped out! I knew it was a phone setting.

Not every superhero wears a cape - thank you for this valuable tip!

This id what i effin looking for!! Great one!!!! Thank you!

It work for me appreciate that maneeeee this low volume was driving me crazy

U saved my life bro❤️😂

Omg finally! Jesus I’ve been trying to figure this out for months!

Thanks man it worked now it sound 10 times better

Thank you, I didn’t know about this sound check thing 🙌🏾

I was seriously about to trade my truck in over this, thank you sir.

Thanks It made my 15 inch subwoofer go silent. It kept saying I reached the recommended limits for the bass I have 2 subwoofers professional installed. It reset 30 every days I get 3 days worth of bass then no sound again. I thought it was a shortage in the cords or witing issues.

OMG!!!! you don't understand what this means to me! lol Seriously! I was considering getting a whole new sound system or taking the damn car back! Thank you!

Is this only if you are using Apple music app or it's for Apple car itself generally? The reason I'm asking is because I can't find that music setting on my iPhone?

Understood the SoundCheck thing...my issue is why can't I adjust the EQ settings while using CarPlay on my UConnect radio? It sounds great on Bluetooth but as soon as I hook up the USB it goes to this different sound that's not adjustable...

This was most definitely helpful. Thank you 🙏

Amazing! Thanks so much for this! My issue is with Spotify. There’s a similar setting in Spotify. So i think you might have hit the nail on the head for that as well! I noticed this lack of volume and having to turn the volume literally all the way up while having the windows down on the highway. And I’ll have to check tomorrow and see if its fine with Sirius or if the speakers are just trash!

I was wondering for years why some songs were loud and some was making me maxing out the volume.

Will turning that feature off make the sound quality better too? When I use CarPlay the music sounds so distorted or slightly muffled

My problem is phone calls are lower volume i will still try this thank you 🙏

God Bless You! I've been trying to figure this out for years.

This is exactly what I was looking for. After an update on my phone I had a noticeable decrease in volume, and couldn’t figure out why.

Thumbs up m’man!! I turn my car off, the Bluetooth kicks the phone off, and I get a BLAST of LOUD music from the FM radio before I open the car door. (Which turns off the infotainment system/radio completely) I know you get what I’m taking about, because I see you drive a Chevy too! Wait…I just checked my phone, and I have “sound check” off, and I still have a huge volume difference between the music that comes from my phone, and the music that comes from the car. Ugg

Thank you so much for this video. It was driving me nutz

Thanks for this great information I was looking all over I find it here

THANK YOU SO MUCH I WAS ABOUT TO THROW MY RADIO OUT I HAVE SPENT SO MUCH ON IT 😂

You saved me 2 grand thank you

thankyou so much and god bless you i been looking for this for awhile

I was having that issue thanks a lot for the help! 🙌🏼

well I have a brand new 23 cs and I have the same issue but mine is with all the audio sources. my volume is low no matter what I do. I can turn the volume all the way up and I can still have a full conversation with the person next to me please help

Good lord!! I was going insane…thank you so much!!!!

Thanks bruh this has been making me insane. I had no idea about this feature.

This has driven me mad for so long! I haven’t checked it out yet, but I will be doing very soon.

My sound check button isn’t on. And I can hardly hear in CarPlay. My car volume buttons and knob do not increase the volume either when CarPlay is connected.

Thank you so much i can’t wait until tomorrow to try it out.

THANK YOU! omg i been. trying to figure this out for way too long

Mine is off and still

Thanks you , 7 months find the solution

Great thanks! Mine doesnt change much but still it makes bit louder though. Better than before. I hoped it would change all volumes louder (youtube music, poscasts etc) but it seems like its just changing what comes from music app. But thanks its better now :)