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AirPods 5 volume lowers when singing or moving my jaw

Airpods 5 volume will sometimes lower if I'm singing along with a song or if I move my jaw (like yawning or chewing gum). I do not have any settings enable that should be lowering the volume like personalize volume, conversation awareness or adaptive. Before this I had Airpods 3 and never had an issue like this.


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Original Title: Airpods 5 volume sometimes lowers when singing along with song - all normal settings that might cause this are turned off.

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Even with features like Conversation Awareness and Personalized Volume turned off, jaw movement or singing can trigger a volume drop due to how the physical seal and optical/skin-contact sensors operate.


Please try this

  • Put your AirPods in your ears and connect them to your iPhone.
  • Go to Settings > Bluetooth, and tap the i (info) icon next to your AirPods.
  • Scroll down and toggle off Automatic Ear Detection.