iPhone 5s call volume too low
My wife's iPhone 5s is too quiet when using it as a handset. It's fine in speakerphone mode. Settings all look good, but no change. I tried cleaning the speaker cover with a dry brush, facing downward, with no effect. Also tried blowing across it gently with compressed air. Then we tried a hard-reset. Nothing seems to help.
We're on vacation, and looking to hit an Apple store when we get home, but I'm wondering if there are any other in-hotel solutions AI members might suggest.
Thanks in advance!
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My wife's iPhone 5s is too quiet when using it as a handset. It's fine in speakerphone mode. Settings all look good, but no change. I tried cleaning the speaker cover with a dry brush, facing downward, with no effect. Also tried blowing across it gently with compressed air. Then we tried a hard-reset. Nothing seems to help.
We're on vacation, and looking to hit an Apple store when we get home, but I'm wondering if there are any other in-hotel solutions AI members might suggest.
Thanks in advance!
Probably too late, but try putting the volume up in the Sound settings. Also, turn up the volume when in the Phone app. I'm sure you've done both these things anyway. Also, try turning the phone off and on normally-it's slightly different to the hard reset. Sometimes other apps can interfere with the sound; a hard reset won't necessarily solve this. Try playing something in the Music app first, then switch to the Phone app.
Probably too late, but try putting the volume up in the Sound settings. Also, turn up the volume when in the Phone app. I'm sure you've done both these things anyway. Also, try turning the phone off and on normally-it's slightly different to the hard reset. Sometimes other apps can interfere with the sound; a hard reset won't necessarily solve this. Try playing something in the Music app first, then switch to the Phone app.
Thanks for the tips. I had happened upon most of those during my attempt at a solution.
Then my wife got on a chat with Apple support, and the conversation ended with the suggestion to go to a Genius Bar at a store. We're back from vacation now, so I took her phone in yesterday (Austin - Barton Creek store). The associate who helped was very quick to determine that there was something wrong at the speaker. He took it to the back, pulled the screen, and found a wad a lint in there. Removing that fixed the problem.
Great service there. The whole thing would have been free if my son hadn't decided to buy a Beats Pill too! (he'd planned it for a month though -- and saved plenty for it)