100+ db alert on Apple Watch every time I drive my r1t

[Foggydew]

Anyone else getting 100 db+ warning on Apple Watch when you drive your Rivian?

It has made me more conscious of how loud I listen to music- this is good! But I do wonder if it is a position of the speaker relative to my left hand on the steering wheel?

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[Dark-Fx]

what?

 

[Foggydew]

what?

Posting with a fever may not work as well as hoped for!
I corrected the autocorrect errors.

 

[solaskaze]

what?

I can't hear you.

 

[CharonPDX]

No, even when I'm on the highway and playing music "loudly". Either you like your music *WAY* too loud, or your watch is faulty. (For serious, if you're listening to music so loudly constantly that you're getting 100dB alerts, you're destroying your hearing. It's one thing to be exposed for an hour or two at concerts every so often, but every time you drive? Protect your ears.)

 

[sub]

your music *WAY* too loud, or your watch is faulty.

Or their ears are faulty, it may be time to visit an Audiologist.

 

[DeafPug]

I originally thought you were saying the Watch was making an alert that was really loud, not that it was detecting you were in a loud environment. For those that aren't familiar, the Apple Watch can give you alerts when in detects you are in a loud environment.

Do you drive with the windows down? Sometimes, I'll get errant loud noise alerts on the Apple Watch if I drive with a window down and rest my arm in the window The outside air flowing over your arm is detected as a very load noise, which it would be if you had your head stuck in the air flow. I'll even get loud alerts when riding the bicycle for the same reason - wind blowing on the watch on my wrist.

Edit: As others mentioned, it also could be because you hold your watch near one of the speakers or possibly in the airflow from the HVAC.

The most common time I get a real loud noise alert on the Apple Watch is when using the riding lawn mower. I ignore those alerts because I wear earplugs anytime that I am using power tools.

 

[COdogman]

I thought I listened to my music very loud. Apparently I’m not trying hard enough to make myself deaf because I’ve never gotten a single warning from my watch in my R1T, yet every day my blender sets it off.

 

[madgrey]

I thought I listened to my music very loud. Apparently I’m not trying hard enough to make myself deaf because I’ve never gotten a single warning from my watch in my R1T, yet every day my blender sets it off.

Prioritizes pina coladas over “The Pina Colada Song”

 

[SwampNut]

But I do wonder if it is a position of the speaker relative to my left hand on the steering wheel?

That seems likely. I've never had more than the 90-95dB warning at full volume from Bluetooth (which is stupid, and not done for long periods). I drive mostly with my hand in the bottom left of the wheel or 9:00 position.

 

[bigsky]

Define irony: a wristwatch blasting you with a 100 dB siren to alert you to sound levels around you too high.

 

[Jerk]

No, and you can enable the db meter on the watch face to see if it’s position or actual loudness that’s causing the warning. But like others said, it’s probably because the music is too loud.

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