iPhone 15 Pro Speaker Crackling Issue

Yeah I'm also facing same issue In the apple store staff saying they sir your device is everything is fine there is no issue in with your speaker and they returned me what can I do

POTENTIAL SOLUTION

TL;DR: Speaker grill is a bit loose on my unit and had some lint on it. Cleaning it with a toothbrush and isopropanol, then blowing into the speaker port while playing the Unfold ringtone until everything was dry fixed my issue almost 100%.

After being annoyed by this issue for a month or so I finally went to the apple store for a repair. (un)luckily there was another issue which was a flicker in the ultrawide camera when recording in bright environments. Anyway, after the repair I walked out expecting everything to be fixed and tried the speaker on my walk back to work by playing the song Cornfield Chase at around 40 seconds which I'd been using to demonstrate the issue to the "geniuses". Low and behold the issue persisted and there was absolutely no change to before the repair. (yet to confirm if the camera issue is fixed too as it happens in specific circumstances). Now i thought, hmm maybe its a software thing and maybe doing a DFU reflash would work. Before i tried this though, I decided to have a close look at the speaker port through a loupe and saw there was an every so small amount of lint and such gubbins on the grill. So I got the isopropanol out and a toothbrush and gently gave it clean. A bit of brushing and blowing into the speaker grill to dry it out, as well as playing the Unfold ringtone while blowing dried it out pretty well i think and amazingly, this seemed to work. NO MORE CRACKLING! however....

While inspecting the grill, poking it very gently with some tweezers, I noticed that the grill itself moves compared to the phone's frame, where it doesn't on the microphone's grill. IS THIS THE DESIGN FLAW causing this to be such a widespread issue or is this just my unit? If the grill is not staying stuck to the frame, it will start flapping in the speaker's breeze and resonate at certain frequencies. This would explain why when the grill was partially blocked by the lint and debris it was being affected by the speaker more and buzzing/crackling more.

Now the bad news: This didn't 100% fix the issue, but it did fix it enough to not be noticeable until the volume is 100%, where before the issue was heard from about 50% volume, maybe less sometimes.

I'm not necessarily advising anyone else blow IPA into their speaker port, but this is what worked for me.

There are so many discussions here on this front - Cracking sound in speakers.

But Apple customer care throws it on Microsoft apps , android apps, VPN ..etc

I am worried if I made a wrong choice to move from Android 😩

I have the same problem with my iPhone 15 Pro. Apple Support hasn't been able to help me. They only asked me to run an online device diagnostics, after which they said the device was fine, and that was it. The problem persists. This issue was not present with my iPhone 13 Pro.

Hi guys,The same problem exists in all 15 series I've tested. Apple hear our voice and take care of this problem! People spend so much money. I would like to point out that if it is not corrected, I will prefer another brand.!!

I recently brought 15 pro max it's the same issue like speaker crackling like glitch I went apple store in Dubai several times and I contacted apple care they saying now I'm not satisfied with my device they saying your phone is perfect right now I'm not using my device is there any way solve the issue

so basically during the second day with my Iphone 15 plus, i turned up my volume all the way for a hearing test and i started to notice this really weird cackling noise thats coming from the top speaker is that fixable because it sounds like the top speaker already blew

I have ip15 Pro max. From day one, the top speaker also sizzles slightly in some videos and some music. When I looked at the forums and the apple forum, I saw that there are many people who have this problem. A few people you asked in this group said the same problem. The people around me have the same problem with the ones who are ip15 pm. Do you think this problem is software or hardware? The music with the most sizzle is the first 10 seconds of the Nicky Youre/Sunroof song.

Hi,

I have had the same issue, the warranty was about to expire so I opted for the express exchange, paid 33 usd for that. The replacement came three days ago, and the replacement is having the same issue, not as bad as the one I sent back but it is already crackling a bit.

not sure how to go about this, the warranty expires 10/24?

any input would be greatly appreciated.

thank you.

I’m having the same issue with my sound it has a crackling pulsing static sound especially when it gets louder

I’m having the same issues it sounds like a speaker is blown.

I bought iPhone 15 Plus a few days ago but it is having speaker problem sometimes and it is also hanging sometimes.

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