Ask HN: Does my iPad Air have a design bug in volume buttons?

Posted by EagleEdge on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:15PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I own an iPad Air from 2024 and every time when I press the upper (lower) volume button, it reduces (increases) volume, which, I feel, is quite counter-intuitive. I have owned this ipad for over two years now and I still press upper volume button (almost every time) when I try to increase the volume. I then realize it decreases volume.

I wonder if this is a design bug. Does your ipad volume button work the same way?

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Re:Ask HN: Does my iPad Air have a design bug in volume butt... by k310 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:29PM (#50406782)

The volume on an iPad Pro running an older ios behaves consistently. One button is up. The other is down.

A newer iPad running ios26 flips the function. The buttons change function depending on the orientation of the ipad, to correspond with a visual slider, which I never look at.

no further comment.

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