{"id":36014,"date":"2022-05-27T17:04:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T21:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36014"},"modified":"2022-05-27T17:12:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T21:12:36","slug":"airpods-amber-alerts-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/27\/airpods-amber-alerts-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"AirPods Amber Alerts Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/05\/17\/apple-airpods-pro-amber-alert-lawsuit\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/05\/17\/apple-airpods-pro-amber-alert-lawsuit\/\"><p>Apple&rsquo;s AirPods ruptured the eardrums of a 12-year-old boy in 2020 when a loud Amber Alert was issued, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/574548490\/Gordoa-et-al-v-Apple-Inc-et-al\">lawsuit filed against Apple in California<\/a> (via <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/1494142\">Law360<\/a><\/em>).<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The  AirPods Pro  were allegedly set at a low volume, but an Amber Alert sounded without warning and the high-pitched noise damaged B.G.&rsquo;s eardrums.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>There have been other social media complaints about the noise of Amber Alerts when wearing AirPods. Amber Alerts are designed to catch the attention of  iPhone  owners, causing devices to play a loud sound and vibrate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/apple\/comments\/c8s6yi\/eardrums_destroyed_by_emergency_alert_on_airpods\/\">Reports on the internet<\/a> suggest that the Amber Alert sound is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/apple\/comments\/bgh6ra\/airpods_plus_amber_alert\/\">indeed very loud<\/a> when played through AirPods, even when those AirPods are set at a reasonable volume.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish I could leave them enabled but set to only vibrate and show a notification on the screen.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/amber-alert-usability\/\">AMBER Alert Usability<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: Apple&rsquo;s AirPods ruptured the eardrums of a 12-year-old boy in 2020 when a loud Amber Alert was issued, according to a lawsuit filed against Apple in California (via Law360).[&#8230;]The AirPods Pro were allegedly set at a low volume, but an Amber Alert sounded without warning and the high-pitched noise damaged B.G.&rsquo;s eardrums. [&#8230;] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-05-27T21:04:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"c7ffa479-4888-4646-8438-574bc49aac37","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-05-27T21:12:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ax_-keUiIRkaEOFdLxJqsNw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1422,95,31,2078,41,209,111],"class_list":["post-36014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airpods","tag-audio","tag-ios","tag-ios-15","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-notificationcenter"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36015,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36014\/revisions\/36015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}