Hey, what's up?
John Sonmez from simpleprogrammer.com.
So, I thought I'd do a little bit of a different program today because, I found something pretty
useful that I think might help a lot of you.
And, just to have this video out here to help whoever happens to search for trying to fix
the audio problems on their iPhone.
Because, I've had these problems multiple times.
And I think, one of the reasons why I have this problem on my iPhone, on different models
of iPhones that I've had is because, I have a lot of lint in my pocket, and I carry around
my iPhone.
I'm running, you know, I end up having a lot of lint in my pocket, and it causes some problems.
So, I have an iPhone 6s plus, okay?
Now, I've had problems with the audio with multiple versions of the iPhone, and I've
searched high and low on the Internet to have solutions to the problem.
Now, the problem that I've had is basically what would happen with my iPhone is that,
the speaker up here, which you can kinda see.
This speaker, the speaker that when you hold it to your ear.
That speaker has had low volume or no volume, right?
And it would just suddenly start happening to me.
So, I would be able to turn on speaker phone, right?
Which is ... There's a different speaker here for a speaker phone.
And that would work.
I'd get full volume.
But, when I tried to listen to voicemail or tried to talk on the phone, and listen here
it's very faint, or I would get no sound at all.
And so, I went through, and I searched the Internet for every single troubleshooting
step or everything that I could find.
And I didn't find anything really good.
I found little pieces of stuff.
But, I'm going to give you the absolute way that I found to fix this, finally.
A lot of people said.
"Reboot your phone."
Obviously.
But, restore your phone to factory default, that's a big hassle.
You don't have to do that.
So, there were two things that I found ... Actually, two problems that were causing an issue.
One of them is this headphone jack on the older phones.
Obviously, the iPhone 7 doesn't have that problem.
I think that's part of the reason why they got rid of it.
Is, a lot of dirt and stuff gets in here and this can mess up the connection.
And so, it can think that you have headphones connected all the time, or it might not detect
headphones.
Or it might have a problem where it's like, intermittent and it just ... It seems to cut
the sound pretty low.
What I did to fix that particular issue is, I took a Q-tip, and I've seen some people
recommend this, so this isn't super unique.
But, I put a little bit of alcohol on it.
If I break your phone, not my fault.
It shouldn't damage your phone, if you put just a tiny bit.
And I cut off kinda the tip and I just, kinda moved it around in there and got as much dirt
as possible out of there.
I just cleaned it up as good as possible.
And then, plugged in headphones and unplugged headphones.
And eventually, it worked.
It detected it.
I think it had to dry a little bit too.
And then, that worked.
The headphone detection worked on that.
But, even after I did that.
I still had low sound volume.
So now I was sure ... And that's the first thing you want to check, is to make sure that
it's detecting headphones correctly.
So, if you plug in your headphones, it should say.
"Headphones plugged in."
If you unplug them, it should not have that headphones' icon.
You can check the volume, if you ... You can check the screen where it tells you what the
outputs are.
And you can see, there it shows the outputs if that focus is right.
But, once you're sure of that.
Then the other problem is again, it was working now, I could tell.
But still, I'd turn on the speaker phone, and it would be loud but, when I listened
to phone call, voicemail, or something like that, or listen through here, this speaker
wasn't working.
So I thought.
"Okay, this is kind of crazy.
What can I do?"
I tried changing all the settings and everything.
Finally, I did something that, it appears really stupid, but it actually worked, which
was I took again, a cotton ... A Q-tip and I basically put a little bit of alcohol on
it and I went in this little crevice, this little speaker and I just cleaned that out
as best as I could.
And it doesn't even seem like there's anything in there, honestly.
It's just a little tiny grill there, right?
It doesn't even seem like that could possibly block the sound.
But it did.
Believe it or not.
When I did that, and I went through.
That Q-tip was dirty, and it's amazing.
Like I mean, the volume has increased by probably, 300% just by doing that little thing.
So, that's it.
I mean, rather than doing all this crazy stuff, and I've taken my phone to Apple and all this
stuff.
And rather than going through all that.
I think, if you do those two things.
If you basically, go through and make sure that the headphone detection is working by
cleaning that out.
And then, you clean out that little grill and that speaker at the top.
You'll probably get results on that.
I'm saying this with pretty good confidence because, I've tried this multiple time ... I've
had multiple phones where I've had this problem, and I've never been able to solve it.
It's driven me nuts, until now.
I was so shocked when I cleaned that little speaker with the Q-tip, and it actually made
a difference.
So a little bit of rubbing alcohol, just put it in there.
Not too much, you don't want to damage it.
But, just enough to get the dirt out there.
And it's amazing, the volume is so much better.
It basically, went from ... Was going to be a worthless phone that I couldn't even sell
to now, it works perfectly fine.
So, if you have any problems with your iPhone, try those things.
Let me know if you've got another tip that works but so far, I've searched the Internet
like I said.
I tried all kinds of things.
All the steps that people said and so far, it's those two things that seem to matter,
and I haven't even really heard of anyone talking about cleaning out that top grill
there.
So, if you've got low volume on the headset speaker, the in-call speaker, try those and
let me know if that works.
Let me know, leave a comment below if that works for you.
I'd be pretty happy to hear that this is actually working out because, it really ... I was pretty
damn excited when I got that working.
So, anyway.
That's all I got for this, I just thought I would throw that out there since I had discovered
that little tip.
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