iPhone text notification dings very loudly in my ear while on the phone

by the way, I’m not sure if you guys realize this or not, but it only affects the pro series of the iPhone 14. iPhone, 14 Pro and Pro Max both have the notch and both have this issue. I don’t know if the notch has anything to do with the issue but the regular iPhone 14s don’t have this problem. When I upgraded, I got the iPhone 14 for my kids and I got myself the iPhone 14 promax and the iPhone 14 does not have this issue. I’ve tested on my kids phones.

GURUmicro wrote:

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Any chance you figured out how to stop it? I have not and it kills my ears!

I just made the switch too!

Going through the same issue…

This was a setting that Samsung phones had…

Apple for some reason wants everyones ear drums to burst!

There is no fix at this point.

were you able to configure it in a way where its automatic from when you answer the phone its on focus and off when you hang up? Mine seems to think after configuration once I answer the phone I still need to click on the phone app for it register. Hope I am making sense. Hate putting my phone on silence for all calls because I forget and leave it on for the rest of the day..

You have to make sure smart activation is on and set to activate when using the phone app. I tested it multiple times with different people in my family calling the phone and it works. Will not shut off until you close phone app or go to home or another app. Essentially, putting the phone app into the background.

It would be a lot easier if Apple would just drop the volume by 90% for the notification when using the phone. I can’t believe this made it by beta testing.

Hi, Thanks for this...the part you missed was how to add the automation and how to turn on the focus setting automatically when on a call...here you go

https://www.guidingtech.com/automatically-enable-focus-mode-on-iphone/

It will need more testing. I can see the icon momentarily on an incoming call then the icon vanishes. Then when hanging up I can see it momentarily again but vanish. I don’t know if it’s actually still on. I will have to test some more.

I am having this same issue. My old 12 pro Mac didn’t do this. It is horrible. Between going def using the phone, the constant locking down, and doesn’t connect to my car this new phone wasn’t an upgrade from the 12 Mac Pro.

Apple will never fix this problem. Apple engineers are not stupid. They know the problem exists but they can’t be bothered to fix it because they are too busy working on the next money printing machine called the iPhone 15. They don’t care about customer service. They just care about making money.

we miss you, Steve Jobs. If he was alive, he never would’ve let anyone at Apple get away with this. If Steve Jobs was alive, this would’ve been fixed three days after the first person reported it.

I have the se 2020 and the alert is so ear piercing. I have talked to apple gor 3 days doing all kinds of things and nothing works. Now they want me to factory reset my phone. I just upgraded to 16.3 and still the same problem

This is STILL an issue with both mine and my husband’s iPhone 14s. Absolutely horrible and painful in my ear! Has been an issue since “upgrading” to this phone. My ear has literally had tinnitus after a loud ding. I’ve done every update and restarted multiple times with no change. Programmers really need to fix this. This phone has all sorts of weird problems. Another is often when I open camera to video mode, the screen flashes every second or so and doesn’t stop and won’t record.

YES YES YES Please Apple devs read this post!! This is a serious issue with many iPhone models, not just the original poster’s 14 pro max. I have a 13 and XS Max and it is problematic on both of them as well. During a phone call alert tones should automatically silence. The alert can be so loud when it happens during a phone call that it physically hurts my ear and has made my ear have a hissing sound for a few minutes afterward. Seems like a simple software update should be able to mute audible alerts from coming through the earpiece speaker during a phone call.

And to confirm, I have the most recent up to date iOS on both of my devices. This issue has persisted through numerous iOS versions up to the most current.

My ear is still ringing and sore from an excruciating loud bell that came from the phone as I dialed a number and placed the phone to my ear. What the heck was that and how can it not happen again. I’m afraid I may have lost some hearing!

I have same problem ever since upgrading iphone last week