Speakers on my iphone sound distorted running iOS 16.4.1
I’m currently running iOS 16.4.1 on an iPhone 13 Pro Max. I don’t live in a humid location and never take my phone into the water as well as my speakers are free of debris.
Both the top ear piece and bottom firing speakers do play sound, but emit a buzzing sound as well as have distortion. It’s quite apparent when compared to my mothers iPhone 13 Pro and my iPad Pro 11”. I’m not sure what triggers this issue to become apparent, but it seems like it’s a common issue amongst the community where people are reporting that the iOS update from 16.4 has seemingly broken their speakers on many different types of devices.
It’s unlikely that both speakers decided to fail on the same day. I will note that I connected to airplay yesterday and began experiencing freezing issues when attempting to mirror if that has any relevance.
To the apple bots: I’ve already sent in feedback for this issue with no version selected. The feedback system is also out of date and does not have an option to provide feedback for iOS 16.4 or higher.
Links to other people having some issues with audio after updating to iOS 16:
iOS 16.4 update causing speaker quality p… - Apple Community
After installing update 16.4.1 iPhone sto… - Apple Community
iPhone 13 Pro Max