Apple Hears Concerns

Tue Apr 4, 2006 12:16PM EDT

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Worried your kids are cranking up the volume way too much on their iPods and causing irreversible hearing loss?

Here's some help if they're tuning out your turn-it-down advice: Apple has issued a software update that allows users to set volume limits on their iPod Nanos and video-capable iPods. Parents can use the feature to set a maximum volume on their kids' iPods and lock it with a combination code. The download is free.

Expect to see more product warnings and responses like this from other MP3 and cell phone makers who want to protect themselves against lawsuits.

Obviously, the better answer is for kids and adults to use good judgment and not set volumes to damaging heights. Personal responsibility is always better than parental controls. But if you're close to taking the iPod away because you can hear your daughter's tunes from another room, this is another option.

What do you think: Over-the-top meddling or the perfect parental solution?

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  • 1 Posted by slipknothim13 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:28PM EDT Report Abuse

    That sucks its a parental block for volume. Now without all the fancy words doesn't that just sound stupid?

  • 2 Posted by sportz394 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:37PM EDT Report Abuse

    Well it's not like their technically trying to hurt you, their trying to think of new ways so we don't have a bunch of deaf kids when we grow up.

  • 3 Posted by justme1lostteen on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:45PM EDT Report Abuse

    ok i get the point but every day it seems like us teens have more freedoms taken away i mean we cant complain about uniforms but its wrong for the gov to take guns away from adults all im sayin is that i dont think parents should just take away our right to hear our music! whats next?!

  • 4 Posted by radicalgood on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:25PM EDT Report Abuse

    it is not about taking away a right to hear music just the attempt to conserve younger generations ability to hear. who wants to wear hearing aids? It is a nice jesture but the best solution is would to just educate those who might soon become "hearing impaired" that they are on a track towards disaster and should just lower thier volume to a more acceptable level

  • 5 Posted by viper3ez on Thu Sep 3, 2009 10:36PM EDT Report Abuse

    i'm no teenager, i paid for my own ipod but i think that is just stupid. i use my volume control so it don,t blow the amps or speakers in my car but how many parents want to go into their teenagers' pods to set a volume control. its a good feature because i use my ipod in my car so every one wants to crank it up biut its useless controlling your teenagers' volume. u can just remind ur kids of the effect of excessive noise if they have not figured that out. setting the volume control is just plain stupid even for an 8 year old

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