Yeah. There were clearly difficult decisions within Apple about which tradeoffs to make for people, but the big misstep for me was: Not communicating the changes to me. In a way, I was somewhat happy when they removed the Off option because at least it showed me that there were intentional changes occurring. Before they removed it, I thought iOS' switching me incessantly into to Transparency mode (for days on end) was just a really bad bug. It appeared that they had zero respect for users who preferred one of the four Noise Control options they were providing. (I'm not saying that was the case, but that's what it looked like as one of those users)
> If they turn on loud sound reduction
People are opted into this. No one gets to "turn it on". Apple turns it on. Which is why this has blindsided users.
And on its being tied to the feature, from the post: "All of this is likely tied to a relatively new feature called Loud Sound Reduction that only works if AirPods are in an active “Noise Control” mode. So Apple perhaps recently decided that everyone needed this feature enabled, and that’s why they made all these annoying changes to Noise Control?"
> If they turn on loud sound reduction
People are opted into this. No one gets to "turn it on". Apple turns it on. Which is why this has blindsided users.
And on its being tied to the feature, from the post: "All of this is likely tied to a relatively new feature called Loud Sound Reduction that only works if AirPods are in an active “Noise Control” mode. So Apple perhaps recently decided that everyone needed this feature enabled, and that’s why they made all these annoying changes to Noise Control?"