Have you ever been using your phone with the volume up, and wanted to turn it down halfway? If you want to turn it down slightly, tap the volume button. If you want to turn it down a little more, tap it a few times.
I have never in my life wanted to turn down the volume part way by holding down the volume button. I’ve never met anyone in my life who turned down the volume this way. Up, maybe. Maybe you want to hear something when your phone volume is off, so you turn it up by holding the volume up button until you can hear it.
When your phone starts playing something in a crowded place and you want to mute it, those two seconds of gradually turning down the volume feel like an eternity.


I have a lot of custom actions set up with KeyMapper
https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.sds100.keymapper/
“Toggle Mute” is an available action, so you could assign a long press of volume down to toggle mute.
I have double-press set to toggle mute, though, since I’m already using long press of vol up and down to do next/prev track for my music player.
does this work reliably for you? for some reason apps like this using android’s accessibility service seemed to stop working for me after a while, even after disabling battery optimization.
That’s awesome. I’ll check it out.
(Still should be the default lol)