I have to use speaker to hear my phone calls - I’ve restarted and checked for updates -nothing helps. What do I do?

MNMama24 wrote:

If I make or receive a phone call, the only way I can hear is to use the speaker.

I have restarted, checked for updates, made sure silent mode was off, went to settings and checked my haptics -nothing I do seems to fix this issue that suddenly arose out of nowhere.

please advise…

Have you shutdown & restarted the iPhone ie power off/on...then proceed

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Reset or a Force Restart,

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Restore from backup, restore as new device.

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the current stable release, including bug fixes iOS 17.6

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Put your iPhone in diagnostics mode - identify potential hardware and software issues

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