Comment by alex_young

5 years ago

One of my ‘favorites’ is Tesla’s model 3 volume control.

One simple physical roller, what could go wrong?

Well, if you’re trying to turn down some music to hear a navigation prompt, it actually turns down the navigation volume instead. One can actually turn the navigation volume completely off without realizing it, and now not only is your music still loud, you’ll probably miss your next turn as well.

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disillusioned  5 years ago

This sort of context-aware volume control is fairly common though, right? If you adjust the volume while you're on a call, it's adjusting the phone volume. If you adjust the volume with the door open, you're adjusting the door-open volume, but it'll persist to when the door is shut (so, regular media volume) for the duration, which isn't the worst case.

That being said, I get what you mean and why this would be frustrating. I've also had a call end and been absolutely ROCKED by how loud the underlying music had been because I forgot I had it set that high and the call obviously wasn't that loud.

LeoPanthera  5 years ago

All/most CarPlay enabled cars do exactly the same thing. The navigation and music volume controls are treated separately but there's usually only one physical control.

function_seven  5 years ago

As always, there's an XKCD[6] for that. Albeit for the phone, but same idea.

Would be nice if the side buttons controlled ringer volume only when the phone is either locked or on the home screen. If I'm in an app of any sort, chances are the volume I want to adjust is the media, not the ringer!

[6] https://xkcd.com/1884/

  • bouke  5 years ago

    On iOS I’ve configured the buttons to always change media sound, not the ringer because of this.

    • function_seven  5 years ago

      Never fails. I complain about something, and it turns out there's an option that'll handle it.

      Thanks. I just did the same. Not sure why I didn't see that before.