Iphone 4s iOs 6 Sound issue-

Thank you. My iPhone 4s iOS 6 had the exact problem you described. Used my Sony Dock to listen to some music and the problem was replicated and solved using your advice. Hope Apple fixed the problem. Thanks for your posting.

Surprise, today I can notw hear in my earpiece in the phone. Not sure what happened but it is working for now, fingers crossed!

The sounds on my phone started working late yesterday afternoon and so far so good. But, I'm not optimistic that it'll stay that way. We'll see.

Well, I spoke to soon. I have once again lost sounds. I've hardly used my phone today and have not done anything different. I'm really hoping that Apple is paying attention to these complaints and will release a fix soon.

I lost all sounds from my iPhone 4S few days after I installed the IOS 6 , as if the phone in compete mute mood !!

It works only on docking stations , no response from hone speaker

Hi, I was having the same issue. No keyboard clicks, or any other sounds for my iphone 4s. I then read a thread somewhere else about the mute button right above the volume contol on the top left hand side of the phone. you can mute and unmute the sounds that way. this is on the upper left hand side above the volume buttons on the phone hardware.

I agree w digitalsciguy. Lost my sound twice. Got me very frustrated. Read somewhere about putting the iphone4s into a sound dock and I tried. It worked for me. I had put mine into a radio w an iPhone/iPod dock and it wasn't even powered! That worked twice for me so I'm inclined to think that it's the solution for now.

Might be some bug which tricked the phone into thinking its plugged to some music dock and hence muted the device's speakers.

Anyways in response to digitalsciguy's Qn, I had updated mine over the air via wifi.

Have someone at the apple store look at your dock connector on your phone. If there is any corrosion the sounds won't work. They replaced my 4s the other day because of a touch of corrosion and everything is fine. I thought it was IOS 6 too but it is running fine now on my replacement 4S.

It not not a physical issue or a hardware issue with the dock connector or earphone connector. This is definitely a bug with iOS 6. Verizon replaced my phone this week in as they claimed it was a hardware issue, but I'm having the same problems with my replacement device. Sound works off and on depending on what kinda mood it's in.

Hi everyone,

I had the problem of once i updated to iOS6 my sound completely went, apart from on calls and my alarm. Vids were silent on my camera roll and youtube.

What i did was went into:

Settings

Sounds

Turn "Change With Buttons" off then on again

now i have my sound back albeit without the Volume bar you would normally have on videos!

but the buttons and sound both work so im happy now.

Hope this helps, should be the same on iPad too

Ash

I'll be going into apple on Tuesday. My sounds go in and out on my iPhone since the iOS 6 update. If I turn my phone off (which it doesn't stay off it powers itself back on), charge it, or switch it from vibrate I lose the notification sounds, keyboard clicks for anywhere up to an hour at a time. What's strange is my husband has an iPhone 4S as well (his is white) and he has NONE of these problems. I updated his phone the exact same way as mine. Also to when my sounds came back earlier today they sounded very distorted. Robotic. The only thing that works to get my sounds back is for me to leave it alone

My earpiece sound came back. . and aIthough I did re-plug phone back into laptop and re-toggled buttons- I had done that before- I think it simply started working. Odd.

Go to Music, set Sound Check "ON" - solved the issue for me

This worked for me! I updated OTA via wifi. Hope they fix it soon. I'm not looking forward to running to find a dock every time I want to hear anything. But thanks!

I had a similar intermittant loud speaker problem on a brand new iPhone 4 8GB. Upgraded to iOS 6, OTA via WiFi. Not sure if it happened immediately or after a few days, the phone inbuilt large speakers no longer made any sound. No Notifications, ring tone or alarm sounds or handfree loudspeaker calls. Tried giving the mute button a good toggle but didn't help. Headset worked ok!, incall earpierce worked ok. Tried to change ring tone to force the sample sound to play but it would not. The phone vibrated but no sound. Sometimes ( <1% of the time) it did briefly for a half second play the sound but then when quiet again.

After reading discussions above, I connected phone to itunes, and downloaded a song. Played the song on the phone and it played via loud speker ok. Now all the notifications, alarms, ring tones and notifications work without fault. (1 day since.) I feel it's not a hardware fault but a software / setting bug.

Settings-> Music-> Sound Check, is Off. It seemed to be working ok before I had a chance, changing this setting to fix it.

Thanks, Andrew.