iphone se 2020 speaker makes a pop sound

i would stay away from playing a game and charging at the same time. I was playing COD Mobile and charging and heard the crackle/pop, noticed the plastic part of my charger was split and cracked a little.. was freaked out and started charging my phone on the opposite side of the room.

My SE did not come with a wall plug so I’ve been using my older cable because I wasn’t gonna go buy the new one.

Hello Joshua132Aa,

Thank you for reaching out in Apple Support Communities. We understand you're experiencing distorted sound through the speakers of your iPhone.

It's important to have good quality sound, and we'd like to help.

To help troubleshoot this behavior, we recommend to follow the steps outlined in this helpful article: If you hear no sound or distorted sound from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch speaker

Now if that doesn't help, please let us know if you experience the same behavior, when you watch videos or listen to music on your iPhone.

Kind regards.

Mine does this too and has been doing so since April 2020.

It appears to only occur when the Phone is charging. But it doesn't happen every time I charge it and doesn't occur during wireless charging.

All my charging cables and wall adapters are original Apple so I know that it's not the issue. I also read that many other users are experiencing these issues along with random shutdowns occurring for no reason.

I think it's time to take it in for repair.

Been following this thread as I have had the same issue. Have chatted with Apple Support on different occasions and was told it was an OS issue. Random popping sounds still occur with the update to 14.4. Got my phone in November but didn’t start hearing the popping until Jan. It is hard to replicate in the spot as the popping occurs randomly and not all the time when charging or playing a certain game. I continue to add to my log and will eventually bring my phone into an Apple store to see what they can do. Hope someone has better luck and a resolution!

I have the same problem with my iphone SE 2020... like there's a random popping noise but i usually keep my phone on silent. I've checked my vibrations and actual sound and they're all fine. It's just this weird random popping noise that usually happens when i charge it or even when i'm using it on my bed just browsing my sns... I just hope it isn't a sign of... exploding or something O_O;;

I have the same problem too. It’s a new iPhone SE, bought it about 1 month ago and I hear the popping sound too & I’m playing my games without the volume on!!! And it only happens when I’m playing a game at the same time it is plugged in. Which tends to be at night. It doesn’t matter if I’m playing COD or solitaire... still happens.

I have brand new iphone 12 pro max and I am having this issue too. Since I bought it from Usa and I am living in Turkey. I cannot send it to the official service to check it. I went to the store and checked another iphone 12 pros and the issue exists on them too. I am asking to my friends who owns iphone 11 pro vs. they say I don't hear anything, however obviously if you have sensitive ear it can be easily heard that small annoying popping sound coming from earpiece speaker above %80 volume if you are watching tiktok someone talking etc.

https://www.tiktok.com/@ryantrout1/video/6901807333781949702

in this video it can be easily heard if you get close your ears to the earpiece speaker.

Got a replacement as well and the random pop while charging still happens. Apple should really fix this.

I am also having this problem and it occurs while watching videos in All my VOD apps. Also occurs randomly without any sound playing at all. Not sure if it has occurred without being plugged in but I don’t remember a time. Would really love to see this issue fixed because it is very jarring and worrying to hear your speakers blowout.

Oh really? That might be impossible for me as I play a bunch of japanese mobile games along with browsing sns. However the only time's it has a popping sound is when it is charging. I could be doing nothing and it pops, or i am on the phone and it pops. However, it doesn't do it "all" the time... but pretty frequent.

The poping sound is really random. It happens when I play games, and I am always on slient when playing games, I am not sure if it happens during charging. Even after I got a replacement, it still happens.

I got the same problem.... whenever I play a game while charging my phone makes random popping noises... it also happened 2x while using benchmark test apps...

has any of you tried to record it? Its weird but the noise appears on some of my screen recordings ...

the sound ist pretty much the same as in this video: https://youtu.be/q9X9OPQGs_0

@ItsTy I am using the same cables, chargers and external batteries as I had with my iPhone 8. My iPhone 8 never had these issues.

To answer your question, the pop sound has happened while charging and not charging. Sometimes there is also a static sound when there is a notification.

What is frustrating is that these occurrences are not consistent so it is hard to replicate the issue on the spot if you bring your phone into the Genius Bar.

I also have this problem! It's taken me months to realise where the sound was coming from!

I'm not playing games, I hear it when I charge my phone and it's on silent and I have an app open. In my case it's SLEEPCYCLE (which monitors your sleep and acts as an alarm). The popping noise is totally random, but it's there... every single night!

Can't Apple fix this???