Check headphone sound levels on iPad
While using headphones with iPad, you can use Hearing in Control Center to check your headphone audio level.
AirPods, EarPods, and many other wired and wireless headphones are compatible with Hearing in Control Center.
Add Hearing to Control Center.
Connect and wear your headphones.
Open Control Center, then tap
.
Play audio on your iPad.
The audio level (in decibels) of your headphones is displayed on the Headphone Level meter.
You can scroll below the Headphone Level meter to turn Live Listen on or off. Live Listen streams the sound from your iPad microphone to your AirPods. Live Listen can help you hear better in some situations—for example, when having a conversation in a noisy environment. (Typically, headphone level monitoring and Live Listen aren’t used at the same time. The Headphone Level monitor is intended for listening to audio playback. Live Listen is intended for listening to external sounds with the iPad microphone.) See Use iPad as a remote microphone with Live Listen.
Tip: After you add Hearing to Control Center, you can open Control Center to view a small version of the sound meter on without tapping it.