Turn off ability to change sound getting by buttons

[redrosealways]

Until tonight, I haven't needed my phone to alert me of texts audibly but now, for a family situation, it is important I am notified of texts via tones so I don't miss them when my phone is in the other room.

For years, I have always kept my media volume down all the way/off because I don't want to hear when I accidentally hit unmute on an Instagram video while scrolling at 4am and accidentally jar my husband awake. So I always keep my volume down all the way unless I'm actively listening to something.

Now though, for the first time in years, I need to use my phone as a phone and need to hear my ringtone if I get an emergency text for a family situation.

On my iPhones, I would always press my volume all the way down after listening to something to keep my sound off but it didn't set my -whole freakin phone to silent- and make my ringtone silent too. Intuitively, on my iPhones, those things were separate settings so you didn't accidentally switch your phone to silent and miss important calls or texts. I never realized until tonight, when on this new Galaxy, I missed an important time sensitive text by 30 minutes which was really bad, that on Android phones, this same practice of turning your volume all the way down will also mute your ring and text tones. Please tell me there is some way around this that I am not finding online or in the settings because this is a serious deal breaker for me.

 

[MotorMike2020]

If you go into SETTINGS>SOUNDS AND VIBRATION>VOLUME you can set ringtone, notification, media and system separately.

 

[mustang7757]

If you go settings >sounds>volume
You can toggle on media volume with buttons so you don't adjust the volume or mute it, then in the pull down notifications panel just toggle vibrate/sound/silent by tapping sound toggle

 

[redrosealways]

Okay. This phone definitely sucks then. So if I want to adjust my volume I can't the the BUTTONS. I have to open the settings>sounds and vibration and adjust it that way each time. Yeah...no. iPhone wins again...I'll just go back to that. It was a lot more intuitive. Android really can't handle basic stuff so it's not going to work. Okay.

 

[methodman89]

Okay. This phone definitely sucks then. So if I want to adjust my volume I can't the the BUTTONS. I have to open the settings>sounds and vibration and adjust it that way each time. Yeah...no. iPhone wins again...I'll just go back to that. It was a lot more intuitive. Android really can't handle basic stuff so it's not going to work. Okay.

You can use the volume button. When you first hit the volume rocker switch, the sound you are changing will be displayed on top, tap that and it will expand to change anything that Mustang posted.
You can also set up the volume using the control in the attached screen shot. Good luck.