iPhone 7, iOS 15.7.5 . Microphone is inaccessible, and none of the apps can use it.

Very strange, at one day, I could no longer receive calls with any and every app, could not call, cannot record Audio messages in any app, cannot use Voice Memos app.


When I open Whatsapp and press the "Record Voice Message" button, iPhone vibrates for a moment, as if it "denied" my use of this feature. Same thing happens with Voice Memos, when I press the Red Button to record, nothing happens as if I did not press the button.


When I use "Phone" app to make normal calls, is says "calling [name]", I cannot hear another person, and person cannot hear me, and I cannot press the "Speaker" button during call.


At the same time, when I receive a message or a call, I can hear Notification sound, and when I use apps like youtube, I can hear video or music.


I did not change settings, did not drop iPhone on the ground or in the water.


I have already tried:

1) Extract and Insert SIM card

2) Reset Network Settings

3) Reset All Settings (NOT Erase)

4) Reboot iPhone

5) Re-install iPhone using Full ERASE option.

6) Turned Airplane Mode ON and OFF several times.

7) Toggled ON and OFF many settings (before ERASE or RESET SETTINGS)


Any help would be appreciated, and there are no working solutions from the Internet that I could find.

iPhone 7, iOS 15

Posted on May 5, 2023 10:52 AM

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May 6, 2023 3:09 AM in response to Based_On_Cringe

Looks like this is a bug in 15.7.5 specially for iphone 7.

I am also facing similar issue where for normal calls as well as for the what'sapp call, the mic and speaker does not work.

For music the speaker works.

The mic stops working on its own and voice memo also does not work.


On restarting it works for few minutes/ hours sometimes, and again the bug is intact.

I also did all the standard troubleshooting and infact did a factory reset of my iphone 7 using iTunes via computer and data cable, still 15.7.5 has this bug.


Today, this issue has started coming to some extent on my wife's iphone 7 also.


Request @Apple to please release an urgent patch or fix to resolve this no sound on calling via phone and what's app intermittently that keeps coming with thos new update.


As a workaround, I am forced to use an Android phone for few days till a patch comes, though I have been a continuous iphone user since 2008 when Apple 1 was launched.


I hope this issue with iphone 7 software update is fixed soon.


I plan to upgrade to iphone 15 this year or iphone 16 next year.

Hope my iphone 7 works well at least till Oct 2024.

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