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  • October 3, 2026
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MoPac
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 Yesterday the Room I was playing to was at an extremely loud volume.  Fortunately I had Volume Limit set low enough to avoid speaker damage.  The solution was to turn OFF Live Activities in the app and on the controller device, in this case IOS.  It's too easy for me to accidentally press down on the volume up button when I'm grabbing the iPhone.

In the app I went to Account-App Preferences-Live Activity.  Turned it OFF.  This alone does not necessarily disable side button volume control on the iPhone.  I had to also go to iPhone Settings-Apps-Sonos-Live Activities-Allow Live Activities turned that OFF.

Update:  Airplay is still connecting to Sonos.  Working on disabling this.

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MoPac
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  • October 3, 2026

Further research shows that when I open an app like Sonos, SonoPhone, or Sonify in my Apple Shortcuts the iPhone side volume buttons are activated for Sonos volume control.  This is something I don’t want.  So I have changed the Shortcuts to Open PlayFrame instead which does not activate side volume button control.

Sure would like a setting that disables this hard connection to the iPhone/Pad volume controls.


kdowling
  • October 3, 2026

The volume buttons on the side of my iPhone don’t change my sonos volume level. I’ve tried every thing I can think of. It doesn’t matter if Live Activity is on or off. The volume buttons only change the volume of the phone or what the phone is playing. I must be missing something.