iPhone 4s mic issues

The take it back BB

you mean they take all sold 4s back? because everyone I know who has the 4s has those problems...I love Apple but the 4s is a bad phone I wish I had not sold the 4 which was way better than this..

I got a new iPhone 4s, I used iCloud for my backup and the MICRO do not work. So I reset the iPhone 4s again and install everything manual again without iCloud account backup and the iPhone works perfectly. Good luck folks.

This iPhone 4s *****.

I mean this iPhone 4s is not good, I wish, I has not giving away my old one.

Apple store replace the iPhone 4s ones, but I still not happy.

Happens to me with approx 80 percent of incoming or outgoing calls. If you use the speakerphone option, then people on the other end of the line can hear you. I don't fancy to have all my calls on speakerphone but at least I can tell people, "yes, I am here". Spoke with a tech on the phone and he said, "I can't say this is the first phone call I have received regarding this issue" The conclusion was Siri is causing an issue with the mic. I do notice when the mic cuts out on phone calls Siri cannot hear me either. I have read a few posts where Siri was turned off and that seemed to fix the issue. I use Siri in the car to respond to texts for me and place calls so I wasn't thrilled about having to do that.

I think apple got so carried away trying to keep everyone's interest in the iPhone they forgot about the basic phone functionality. What's the point of having a phone that you can't make calls on? I am amazed at how much publicity the battery issue got and the mic issue gets next to none.

im on my second iPhone 4s (32 gig black) and still having mic issues been to the apple store over 8 times!!!!!

i hear my echo and the other person sounds like there talking really low, i found a fix but its annoying but put the phone on speaker and take it off speaker and it goes back to normal. the girl at apple said its a service provider issue and they wont give me another phone im ****** as ****. but the battle still continues with apple

Was there ever a resolution to your problem? I have a genius appt tonight but I already went in over the weekend for this problem. We did a reinstall at the store and it clearly didn't solve the problem. Previously this happened only on outgoing calls (either with a wired headset or holding to my ear) but today the person who called me back (because she couldn't hear me on the first three calls) couldn't hear me when she was the one dialing. Frustrating!!

Is the best solution to get a new phone?

There has been no official solution but my money is on Siri. I tried listening to my voicemail the other day and every time I lifted the phone to my ear Siri kicked on and asked what I needed help with. The only way I could listen to voice mail was on speaker. Same thing with phone calls, it works fine on speakerphone. I ended up turning Siri off all together which seems to help. The last time I reset the network on the phone it worked fine until I asked Siri to set a reminder for me. Then I was back to the same issue with the mic.

If you read through these posts you will see lots of people got their phone replace 2, 3 or 4 times and they are still experiencing the issue so I don't know if replacement is the answer. It is frustrating. How can you have a phone that can't make phone calls?

"I tried listening to my voicemail the other day and every time I lifted the phone to my ear Siri kicked on and asked what I needed help with."

You can change Siri to not come on when lifting phone to ear.

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That would be helpful. Can you tell me how to do that?

Settings> Siri > Raise to Speak OFF

Ah, I can only see those settings if I have Siri turned on.

I think this may have also solve my mic issue. Since I have turned off the "raise to speak" I have been able to make and receive calls without an issue. Of course, it's been less than a day but I have never been able to make it this long before with the mic working. This would explain why some don't have this issue if they configured Siri with Raise to Speak > off

Thanks!!!!

Same here. Contacted tech and reset the phone. Still issues with the mic. Turned Siri off and no issues. Then someone suggested I turn Siri on but set the raise to speak to off and so far so good. Have used Siri and made calls. It has been less than 24 hours but it's the most amount of usage I have been able to have without mic issues.

Guys! It really works!

This is a solution!!!

Just set raise to speak OFF, but Siri should be switched ON!

Thanks! That means a software problem in 4S!

Again, just like the spotlight search issues, this is no solution, is a workaround for a really annoying issue. There shouldn't be any need to do workarounds, specially on the phone most primitive and core feature...making calls. If that doesn't work, everything else doesn't matter. Again is such a shame to see a great product failing for a buggy software and is also very disappointing to see no offici statements from apple. We're wasting call minutes and most important compromising our communications. I moved from BB, I could not control my integration systems from there, I couldnt take descent pictures and I couldnt browse comfortably, but at least I could make phone calls.