You might not have that problem, but a quick adjust of the above is all that’s needed to correct it. In the big iTunes window, it shows up adjacent to the current track mini-window:įor some reason, on my system there’s a bug that causes iTunes to adjust its volume to about 20% every time I switch output to a Bluetooth device. That’s nice and loud, but the headphones or speakers still not working as you’d like? Turns out that iTunes has its own output level slider, another place that you might find the settings aren’t quite what you desire. From this point you can also go to Sound Preferences… if you need, but before you do, check your overall system volume by simply tapping on the “louder speaker icon” on the keyboard. In this case you can see that I’m already using my Sennheiser Momentum M2 bluetooth headphones (if they weren’t being used as audio output it’d say “Connect” instead of “Disconnect” on the slide-out menu). Then you can double check your device is being used for audio output easily: If you’re using bluetooth technology on a macOS system (it’s not officially called “Mac OS X” any more, just so you know 🙂 ) then I strongly recommend you enable Bluetooth on the Menu Bar, a setting in the Bluetooth System Preference. In fact, there are so many different volume settings that I encountered one I’d never seen before while I was writing up this tutorial, one that was a throwback to 90’s audio technology called Musical Instrument Digital Interface and is how electric guitars and synthesizers interact with the computers that control their sound output.īut let’s start at the beginning. Generally speaking your bluetooth devices, once paired with the new system, should behave exactly as they did with the old system, but it turns out that there are a couple of different places where volume controls can affect output device performance. Lots to really like about the new computer, including of course some new circuitry and capabilities, as well as – hopefully! – a performance boost to go with it. Congrats on the migration to the more powerful MacBook Pro system.

Increase volume in macbook pro