how do I enable the FM receiver on my iPhone 6

Carbonium wrote:

Courcoul you're incorrect. Most Smart phones and even previous iPhones had FM circuitry inside and even Apple admits this. The iPhone 7's and 8's finally had them omitted.

Here's a current story on it:

FCC asks Apple to activate the iPhone’s hidden FM radio to aid public safety - The Verge

Here's a list of Cell phones that still have FM Chips inside. http://nextradioapp.com/supported-devices/

What you and most of the other posters don't get is that there is a huge difference between having FM circuitry inside and being able to actually USE that FM circuitry. It's definitely there. But THERE ARE NO CONNECTIONS TO IT, SO THERE IS NO WAY TO CONNECT AN INPUT ( ANTENNA) TO IT, NO WAY TO CONTROL (TUNE) IT, AND NO WAY TO GET AUDIO OUT OF IT. There are no connections to the FM leads on the chip. So how can software somehow enable something that the software cannot control? Why is this so hard to grasp?

Take an FM radio. Put it in a sealed metal box. That's the equivalent of what is in an iPhone regarding FM.

Yes there is. Many if not most components in an iPhone are off the shelf components meaning they aren't made by or for Apple. Broadcom's chip for WiFi and Cellular connections includes an FM tuner too. Broadcom's FM tuner turns the analog FM to a digital stream. So the iPhone can tune FM stations over the air but Apple chooses not to include an app for that and has the FM tuner portion of the chip disabled via firmware configuration.

Yes, there is an FM tuner in the chip. No, the connections that are required to use the FM tuner do not exist on the iPhone logic board. It has nothing to do with an app.

This has been pointed out over and over and over and over. Why is it impossible for normal, intelligent people to understand that in addition to a capability IN the chip you also need a capability to get stuff OUT of the chip?

Yes, It's Relevant if his goal is to have FM. Others have stated the Iphones don't have the ability to Receive FM but it didn't really solve his problem. Many people have numerous Apple products. I have over 20 of them. The OP might not know the tiny Nano's do have FM built in and anyone with a compatible nano could use this feature that many forget even exists. At about 1/7th the weight with 24 hour run time in a tiny package it solves the problem for me.

They do not have it activated... and no they don’t from the iPhone 7 forward. In times of emergency like we had with the hurricanes this is a real disadvantage. Being able to get some use out of the phone while the network is down would be most advantageous.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.macrumors.com/2017/09/28/apple-still-urged-to-e nable-fm-radio-in-iphone/amp/

False? What is false? That there is no FM radio in an iPhone?

FACT: There is no FM radio in an iPhone

FACT: There is a chip that can receive signals in the FM band in the iPhone; that is not a radio in itself

HOWEVER: An FM radio has many components. One of them is a means of decoding FM signals in the FM band. The iPhone has that. However, it DOES NOT have:

• A connection to the chip to control the FM decoder
• A circuit for tuning the FM decoder
• A connection to get audio out of the chip
• A connection for an antenna (FM radios REQUIRE an antenna; they don't work without one)

There are over 1 billion iPhones that have been sold. If there was a way to make an iPhone receive FM radio signals surely some skilled hacker would have succeeded in making it happen in the almost 10 years that iPhones have been available.

And what would be the point? You can get a headset that has a built in FM radio for $5 from Amazon. You can listen to FM with it, and use it to listen to your iPhone's audio.

Courcoul you're incorrect. Most Smart phones and even previous iPhones had FM circuitry inside and even Apple admits this. The iPhone 7's and 8's finally had them omitted.

Here's a current story on it:

FCC asks Apple to activate the iPhone’s hidden FM radio to aid public safety - The Verge

Here's a list of Cell phones that still have FM Chips inside. http://nextradioapp.com/supported-devices/

As a side note.

And this is relevant to the original topic of iPhone 6 and FM radio how?

You have made your point.

Apple has made FM available before. Now they don't. You would like it if they did again.

Feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

You are completely wrong. But, as your mind is made up, I will not confuse you with facts.

If it were possible, some hacker would have done it in the past 10 years.

BS. You haven't been able to enable the FM receiver. As I now know you are a liar this will be my last response to you.

Franziskus wrote:

There "IS" a radio FM receiver in iPhone! At least in iPhone 5! But it is disabled for "rights" problems!

No, it is disabled because it is inside the radio chip and there is no way to connect to it because the leads that it needs for antenna, tuning controls and audio output are not connected to anything.

Haha! INTENSE! From what I understand, it's missing the circuitry to connect the fm chip to the antenna (yes, phones have antennas). But, broadly speaking, you are correct. The rest is fixable with software. Sorry I wrecked your day with my first comment.

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ArianServ wrote:

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The analogy I think you're trying to make is specious. A "proper compass", unlike the one in your iPhone, does not rely on power. Therefore, it will always work. Your phone, on the other hand requires power. After a day or two of being lost in the woods, you're going to want that proper compass and be very glad you took the trouble to learn how to use it.