JBL Xtreme portable Bluetooth speaker, right front corner view.
There are a few ways for how to set the JBL Xtreme volume control on this Bluetooth speaker. So these often depend on the app(s) you’re playing from. In fact, many apps provide volume controls for their audio output. Furthermore, this BT JBL speaker has two buttons for volume control too. So find these (the + and -) shaped buttons on its top. Note though, that you cannot raise or lower the volume with the JBL Connect app.
You can set the volume without using any apps as follows.
Firstly, there are six buttons in this row. These include the lighted buttons in the center island. The Volume DOWN (-), and Volume UP (+), controls to the left and to the right of the oval panel.
Then press the (-) button to decrease the volume. Tap the (+) button to increase the volume.
When you pair to iOS devices, the Xtreme lets you switch on Siri by pressing the Play / Pause button. However this will not work unless you first change the function of the Play / Pause button. Change it from Play / Pause to Voice Assistant in the JBL Connect app. But assuming you’ve done this, go ahead and press that button. Then, you get the screen we show in the last picture.
Next is an example of giving Siri a voice command to set the volume to half (50 percent).
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. Thus, say these after you’ve pressed the Play / Pause to wake her up.
There are also shortcut commands for lowest and highest volume setting, as in:
You can change the volume with the controls on the paired source device too.
Further, you can do the same with paired Android devices too. But we find that volume adjustments on the speaker do not change volume on our Samsung Galaxy J7 Android phone. So for this device, the volume control buttons on the speaker set only the speaker volume. But pressing these did not move the phone volume. Indeed we hear distortion when speaker volume is at half while the phone volume is at full. So, just be aware of this so you can avoid “over driving” the JBL Xtreme with your Android device.
In this demo though, we’re playing YouTube content on our iPad Air. Then and stream the audio to the Xtreme.
Then start streaming an internet radio station, a song from YouTube, Pandora, or Spotify for example, or an Audible book. So in this demo, we stream YouTube audio to the speaker.
The volume change you hear lags by a second or more behind the button presses. This is due to the latency (delay) of the commands going across the Bluetooth airwaves.
Finally we’re not explaining here how to set volume for specific apps. So, we leave figuring out how to do this as a reader exercise.
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