There are a few ways for how to set the volume control on the JBL Clip 3 Bluetooth speaker. Plus, these depend on the app(s) you’re playing from mostly. Indeed many apps provide volume controls. Plus, this particular JBL speaker has two buttons for volume control. Find these (the + and -) buttons across its front, near the carabineer. Note though, that you cannot set volume with the JBL Connect app on this BT speaker.
First, you can set the volume control without using any apps as follows.
See the correct speaker position shown next. There are three buttons in this row, which, again, we find on the front of the speaker, near the top. This row includes the Volume DOWN (-) button on the left, and the Volume UP (+), button on the right.
Press the (-) button to reduce the volume. Tap the (+) button to increase the volume.
Next is an example of giving Siri a voice command to set the volume to half (50 percent).
Briefly press the Home button to get Siri’s attention. Then ask her to raise and lower the volume as follows.
Next is an example of Siri responding to a voice command to set the volume to FULL (100 percent).
Siri currently understands one scale for volume adjustment: 0-100 percent. Example commands follow. Say these after you’ve pressed the Play / Pause to wake her up.
There are also shortcut commands for min and max volume setting, as in:
Besides the volume control on the speaker, you can also adjust volume with the buttons on the paired source device too, including iPadOS, iOS, and Android devices.
But, we find that setting the volume on the speaker does not change the volume setting on our Samsung Galaxy J7 Sky Phone Pro Android phone. In fact, for this device, the volume control on the speaker seemed to set the gain of the amplifiers on the speaker itself, and not the phone volume. Indeed we heard distortion in the speaker, with its volume set to half while the phone volume was at full (100 percent). So, just be aware of this so you can avoid “over driving” the JBL Clip 3 with your Android device.
In this demo though, we’re playing YouTube content on our iPad Air, and streaming to the JBL Clip 3 via the Bluetooth connection. To make that happen, do the following.
First, link your Clip 3 to your Bluetooth source device.
Start streaming an internet radio station, a song from YouTube or Spotify for example, or an Audible book. In this demo, we streamed YouTube audio to the speaker, as shown next.
See this done in the next picture.
Note the purple arrowed volume setter square with a speaker inside of it in the last picture.
Also note that the volume change you hear on the speaker lags by a second or so. Why? Because of the latency (delay) of the commands going across the Bluetooth airwaves.
Finally, again, we’re not describing here how to set volume for individual apps. So, we leave figuring out how to do this as a reader exercise.
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