How to Lower FaceTime Volume: An Ultimate Tutorial

It’s easy to lower Facetime audio. All you need to do is go to Settings, Sounds, and then drag the ringer volume towards the left. You can try this trick no matter what iOS device you own, regardless of whether it’s an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

I’ve been travelling a lot and facetiming with family back home. As I’ve used the feature a bunch of times, I decided to answer this question, and take a look at some related information too.

As mentioned, it’s easy to do this. All you do is:

Instead of just lowering your call volume, you can completely mute it.

Here’s how you do this:

Click on the Mute button that’s in the corner to unmute.

Although there is no surefire way to tell whether you have been muted, you can figure whether someone has done this.

Let me explain:

While on a call, check whether you can hear any background noise. If the answer is no, you have probably been muted. This is also true if the person you’re speaking to has been silent for a while.

Audio ducking is lowering one track so that you can hear another one better. Making Safari louder than FaceTime is an example of this.

Here is what you do:

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There are a couple of reasons why, and they include:

You won’t have a stable FaceTime call if you don’t have a good internet connection. Try moving closer to your router and see if this helps. If not, disconnect and then reconnect to your WiFi network.

If you want to take things up a notch, you can reset your router. This might be the only solution that would help in case you’re dealing with a complex network issue.

Resetting a router is easy:

Software glitches can be responsible. Most of the time, restarting your iPhone helps clear them.

In case you’re not aware, the restart process differs depending on your iPhone model.

Here’s what you do on iPhones with Face ID:

On older iPhones:

You can force restart if the regular reboot didn’t do the trick. It’s like regular-restarting but more comprehensive. Once again, you will have to click a specific button combo depending on your device model.

Here’s what you do on iPhones with Face ID, as well as the 8 and SE 2nd gen:

Here’s what you do on the 7 and 7 Plus:

6S, 1st gen SE and earlier models:

You might be dealing with a network error. Enabling and then disabling airplane mode can get rid of it.

All you do is:

Software problems can pop up if you’re using an older IOS version, including the issue you’re facing. Now, if you’re using an older OS version, you would have been getting update prompts.

There are 2 different ways to update your operating system:

Or:

Your device would restart after the firmware file has been installed, and hopefully you won’t have any issues with the video call now.

You might be dealing with some sort of hardware problem or device defect. The only way to sort this out would be to contact your local Apple store. Depending on your phone warranty, you would get the issue you’re dealing with fixed for free.

To lower FaceTime volume, all you need to do is open Settings, go audio settings, and drag the slider that appears.

I also ran through some additional information. For instance, what to do if your FaceTime call connection isn’t good. You can try moving closer to your router, or force restart your device.

Hopefully you found all of the information discussed useful.