iPhone SE Bluetooth issues

Telboy67 wrote:

Hi, I have just purchased iPhone SE 64GB in UK, and have same issue with distorted speech from callers when using Bluetooth in car.

The phone is running IOS 9.3 (13E233) - and is fresh out of the box.

Tried calling different contacts - to eliminate potential reception issues at the recipient's end, and they all said they can hear me ok.

My car is a Hyundai ix35 2010. Previously I had a trusted iPhone 4 - and this worked fine.

Please Apple confirm whether this is an IOS glitch and software fixable?

Thanks

Terry

I quote Terry since as reported before, I'm in the same situation (apart the car model of course). And I think that for us new buyers it is very important to know as soon as possible if Apple considers this as an IOS/software (fixable) related issue and not an hardware defect, because in case this would result as an hardware issue we need the required time to eventually return back the phone to the Apple Store leveraging the guarantee.

Thanks,

Flavio.

Anche io ho acquistato un iPhoneSE 64 Gb e ho lo stesso problema! Distorsione con audio telefono in trasmissione verso blue tooth mentre sembra ok con musica!

Chi mi ascolta sente bene mentre io sento distorto!

I really need to buy a new iPhone and the SE was the best choice for me... now i have to wait some news from Apple about this bluetooth problem. Hoping for the all SE owners that it's a software problem.

Matteo from Italy

I just ordered a new 5S. I will give the SE back. As soon as the BT problem is solved, i will buy a new SE.

I'm in the same conditions, the best iphone I have had in years, but it soffer this amazing problem

Fabrizio from Italy

My experience with the iPhone SE was different than what I see being reported. I had mostly good calls via Bluetooth connected to my 2015 Ford F150 Sync. Only a subset of my calls were bad, as described by everyone else. I even had one call that started bad and improved within about 1 minute to a very good acceptable quality for the remainder of the call. Also different is that I had at least one (I think several) call(s) that was of very poor quality (as described) but it was just the iPhone, not going through any Bluetooth connection at all.

I returned my iPhone SE, but I've followed and read almost every post on this thread out of curiosity. The only thing that I see different in my situation vs what I've seen reported here is that this was my first iPhone, so it was setup as "a new iPhone" out of the box rather than migrating data/configuration from a previous iPhone. Theoretically that should be the same situation as people that have reset their phones (after already having the issue) and setting them up as "a new iPhone", which some people have tried to no avail.

Hope this helps or at least gives hope. Good luck.

Same Problem with brandnew iPhone SE in two cars (Audi A6, BMW 1series). My "old" iPhone 5s works fine in both cars so does my wife's iPhone 6. Honestly speaking I'm more than happy that it's "only" a Problem with my Smartphone (which I will return) and not a Problem with my Audi's MMI 🙂

Smart! Once Apple gets a couple hundred returns maybe they'll get the ball rolling on a fix

ill see your hundred and raise you several thousand

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/04/14/apple-ios-9-3-1-has-a-nasty-s urprise/#2c75cef0423f

Ross

Ill take it. While the article is informative I don't believe it is true in saying 9.3.1 is causing the problem with the SE. The SE was launched with 9.3 and people have complained that the problem existed on their SE while using 9.3 also.

I bought my iPhone SE 16GB 4 days ago in Italy and I'm facing the same issue!

the audio while on a phone call is extremely scratchy and distorted.

I've a Toyota Yaris and with my Old iPhone 4 I've never had this kind of issue!!!!

I hope that Apple will solve this problem soon because bluetooth is necessary for me since I travel a lot with my car and use the phone is illegal in Italy as well!!

I was so happy when I bought it but now I'm very disappointed!

😠

Hope this will solved soon.

is there anyone that has been able to solve it in some way?

Yeah...take it back and reactivate your iPhone 4. 😎

This fix IF its software related probably wont be sent out anytime soon if you base it on past software updates.

me too same problem, only with bluetooth car setup (parrot mki9200)

Opened a ticket with apple, but they said that it's the carset maker has to update!

blaming the case maker not the phone, meaning they don't have a solution

Same here.

Old situation iPhone 5 running 9.3.1 no issues with Skoda Octavia mk 2015 using internal carkit or plantronics headset.

Replaced my iPhone 5 (finally a new 4 inch model, yeah) bad sound quality on both (carkit and headset)

hoping for a fix in 9.3.2?