Mine is MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) laptop. With upgrade to macOS Catalina, speaker sound of the laptop has turned so bad that I am not able to understand even words over an ongoing call or from any kind of music audio track being played.
I noticed that it's primarily coming from the left-side speaker of the laptop.
How can this be fixed? Is there any support/fix from the Apple Care itself?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15
Updating my Dec 5, 2020 complaint. Apple Store diagnosed hardware problem and replaced both speakers. Speakers are replaced in pairs which cost $120, including mostly 1 hr labor and tax. The fix worked great.
BTW, when I lost all video and my screen went black two years ago, The Apple Store replaced my logic board and the cost was $475.
Rightly said.
Apple is not at all doing anything significant to fix this issue. Very disappointed and might have to reconsider my next Apple purchase if this is the way they handle reported issues.
Same here. Right side speaker on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) began to sound distorted right after upgrading to 10.15.7.
I hope Apple team knows about this issue.
same happened for me ,after upgrade to 10.15.6..even not fixed by 10.15.7
anybody did success to fix it?
Has anyone tried updating to Big Sur? I installed windows through boot camp and seemed to have no audio issues on windows, so maybe it fixed with further updates?
Yes I am current on Big Sur 11.0.1 - the speakers are horrible.
Headphone use is my only option.
My MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) is making a lot of noise, what can I do? Thank you
Hi again,
I can't recall whether you said you had already tried resetting the PRAM and/or NVRAM; but maybe also see what happens to the audio if you boot into Apple's "Safe Mode" (and THEN retry previous "fixes"?):
https://www.guidingtech.com/boot-mac-in-safe-mode-when-to-use/
(Only one such article of course -- may not be the best -- and here I thought Macs were bulletproof as compared to Windows... JK!)
At any rate, good luck.
Whoops! My previous reply (above, mentioning "command-D") was for "Apple silicon" (the CPU). The linked article also mentions holding down just the "D" key alone on powering up, for Intel processors, which is what I actually did (and most likely for most users these days). Sorry about that.
And here's another article, from the online "macOS User Guide" (select your edition) confirming the "D" key: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/diagnose-problems-mh35727/mac
Sorry for any confusion...
Speaker has too much of noise after upgrading to macOS Catalina
