Protect Your Ears, How to Set Your iPod’s Volume Limit

27May09 Protect Your Ears, How to Set Your iPod’s Volume Limit

With the popularity of portable music players like the iPod, many people have started to live their lives to their own personal soundtrack. However, the damage done to your hearing by playing loud music directly into your ears is a real danger. If you are in an area that is already loud you may be cranking up the volume on your headphones without even realizing how loud it really is. So today we want to show you how you can set your iPod to a volume limit.

Select Settings and then select Volume Limit
Use the Click Wheel to select the maximum volume
The blue triangle shows where the current maximum volume is set
Press the Center button to set the maximum volume limit
On the Volume Limit screen, click Set Combination to require a combination to be entered to change the maximum volume. Click Done if you do not want to set a password for the volume limit.
If you choose Set Combination, enter a combination
– Use the Click Wheel to select a number for the first position.
– Press the Center button to confirm your choice and move to the next position.
– Use the same method to set the remaining numbers of the combination. You can use the Next/Fast-forward button to move to the next position and the Previous/Rewind button to move to the previous position.
– Press the Center button in the final position to confirm the entire combination and return to the previous screen.

You can test the volume limit by playing a song on your iPod and turning the volume all the way up. You should see a lock icon to the right of the volume bar.