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iPhone 11 speakerphone cutting out

My girlfriend and I both have iPhone 11’s. While talking to each other if one of us is on speakerphone the other catches every other word. This happens on both phones, if I activate speakerphone she only here’s every other word and vice versa if she activated speaker phone. If you turn speakerphone off there are no issues. Is there a setting that can fix this? Is this a common issue? Thanks

iPhone 11, iOS 13

Posted on Jul 18, 2020 8:49 AM

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Posted on Aug 26, 2020 4:56 PM

This has to be an Apple fault rather than a carrier fault. I live in Melbourne and so have an Australian service provider. Is anyone else plagued by iPhone 11 Pro Max making interrupting random calls?

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Sep 24, 2020 4:25 PM in response to Ningals3223

My daughter and I both are having this same problem with our phones. I called tech support and she worked very diligently to fix the problem, including clearing my phone and resetting. She said if that didn’t work I would need to ask for a new phone. Well it didn’t work but I don’t want to request what will be a refurbished phone that according to other posts here will still have the same problem and who knows what other problems. It’s so upsetting to have upgraded, paying so much money, to have a phone with worthless speakerphone capability.

Sep 26, 2020 10:21 AM in response to CJAlonzo

On 4th replacement phone.....it cuts out on speaker, off speaker. Both ways now I can’t hear people, they can’t hear me. Phone is freezing and I have to reset to unfreeze. Apple really needs to fix this issue. $1,300 phone can’t talk on it. Ridiculous!!!!!!

Back to Verizon store, they are sending replacement #5. I really have no faith it will work without issues but will keep updated.

Sep 26, 2020 10:25 AM in response to Sk8nDeeVa

My son and I have otterbox but different styles. Wife has different brand. Since some say they have the issue without cases at all, it seems like some kind of tolerance thing. For example, if signal has X strength and case is Y millimeters thick, then it has an issue? Just brainstorming now. Would’ve been so much easier if it was always with a case issue. Haha

Sep 28, 2020 4:52 AM in response to Sk8nDeeVa

It is tech supports job to rule out cases being the issue, which the first step tech support asks is to remove the case from the phone. Several people on here including myself have received multiple warranty exchanges from Apple, do you think they never removed their case before Apple shipped them a $1,200 phone?

Your posts about cases only draws attention away from the fact the we need a system update to fix our devices, otherwise we will be returning ours completely before the 1 year warranty ends.

Sep 28, 2020 6:46 AM in response to Bestarfit

That’s good info about yours still having the problem without cases. It only happens for me when I have my case with the rubber outer layer on. It may be some kind of tolerance issue. The case could causing my phone to hit that tolerance. All ways we can repeat the problem is relevant. The senior tech working with me replicated it after I told him how I did it. Now he’s going back to the engineers letting them know it can’t just be the case design because then voice recordings and videos wouldn’t capture sound either.

Sep 28, 2020 7:53 AM in response to Threeferme

I’m not the only person that this problem occurs with a case on versus off. It does not mean the cases themselves are the issue by a long shot. In fact, it can’t be since I can voice record and make videos without an issue with the case on. That means the case is not blocking anything. If you can recreate the issue by putting your tongue in your left cheek and rub your belly at the same time, it could still be relevant. As a developer myself, having those different details can help figure out what exactly causes a unique issue. Example given by the senior tech was a previous iPhone had issue when the phone was in the left hand versus the right hand. Turned out the antenna location in the left hand was the issue. I can’t imagine how that could be but that’s what he shared with me.

Sep 28, 2020 7:58 AM in response to tools4literacy

There has got to be a design issue or software bug going on. Wonder if it could be a specific lot of phones. The google pixel had a specific lot of phones that had some components from a specific supplier with some issues. Phones from with the components from a different manufacturer didn’t have the issue. Google extended everyone’s warranty a year due to that for that phone.

iPhone 11 speakerphone cutting out

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