Updated to IOS 10 sound quality is poor through headphones

I'm having this problem too, there's so little bass coming out of my earphones. I tried my other set too so this is a problem with the iPhone itself I have a 6S. Equalizer is on Bassboost it hardly does any good to the music. I tried checking the MONO audio setting it was OFF too.

So I wasn't sure whether it's my earphones fault so I plugged it in to my PC it sounds great bass is there and all is good. It's like iPhone can't deliver punchy bass. The thing is sounding like a tin can seriously lol. I hope they fix this issue because I'm not enjoying time listening to music on my iPhone. Plus the equalizer options they give are pretty basic if they could add a custom eq that people can play with would be **** good..

The same thing.... I have just returned from my contract (6 months) and updated my iOS devices, and Mac Mini 2014 - my EarPods stopped sounding like it was before! Even the power of volume decrease! My Sennheiser PX200-II sounds better, but still the max volume is poor... My music files, mostly from my CD in ALAC also I have some albums from iTunes Store anyway the sound quality is worse. I hope Apple will pay attention on this issue. Apple was famous for their professional approach to music and video....

When we spend close to a thousand dollars on a phone we expect them to figure this stuff out by themselves don't we? I'm seriously disappointed. I'd rather be deaf than listening to this tinny music coming out of my iPhone . My earphones sound great on my PC also in ears don't have crazy high impedance too so clearly the iPhone is bottlenecking the audio quality specially the punchy bass part.

I did some testing with one of my subwoofers, guess what? the bass was considerably lacking when I connected it to the iPhone.

I found a solution to audio out being less powerful, there's a program called Audacity (I think only available for Windows). I watched couple of videos (YouTube) on BassBoosting songs and tried messing with the application and figured out its features and stuff.. I did some edits to my songs and they sound incredible now. This thing can make my eardrum fall off lol . It's almost hard to believe that it's the same iPhone that was tinny before with no kick to songs is putting out great quality punchy audio.

By the way I have no special app installed in my iPhone for playing music. I only use the stock iOS Music app. Equalizer setting on "BassBoost". It should be easy for anyone to do this, I'm no audio engineer or as such.

I also have this problem. I used to be perfectly satisfied with iPhone audio quality...and really impressed with the quality of the audio of macbook pros, but after the recent iOS upgrades, audio quality of music has really taken a hit. That's not the only problem. I've been having issues with disappearing music for a long time. I contacted Apple about the issue and it seemed to improve for a while, but now it's back to business as usual. I'm not sure how much longer I will stay an apple fan.

I must say the audio quality of my favorite music has taken a particularly heavy hit on iphone 6s. I bet an LP from the 1960's or 70's probably sounds better. There is severe distortion and cracking of the sound, and I don't even crank up the volume much at all, and I use decent Sony headphones which used to never give me problems. I wonder if listening to digital music multiple times causes it to degrade, just like LPs 😝 haha. (sarcasm alert)

I also noticed that the equalizer which was automatically enabled during one of the updates really makes classical music bass heavy...it put so much emphasis on the bass that one could hardly hear higher notes. I immediately turned off the equaliser and this definitely helped, but I'm still expericing the problem with cracking and distortion of the audio of louder notes.

I had this problem consistently on my iPhone and iPad, both with Logitech UE9000 headphones and Bose quietcomfort 35.

I fixed it by turning off "sound check" in the "music" settings (under "playback").

What is this feature even for, except making the sound quality terrible?

Clean your lightening port (the bit you plug into charge) with a PCB/Flux cleaner and cotton bud.

I had the same problem occur on my iPhone SE and it has sorted it right.

It could have occurred with the iOS 10 update because that's when it also became a jack for headphones for iPhone 7. Dirt could be shorting the circuit there causing problems in the 3.5mm jack.

Yes same problem, yet after replying/receiving in a fb messenger my sound would go back to normal quality for a song. Next song same thing. I spend a lot of time driving listening youtube/podcast but the quality is unbearable to listen. We have people a lot of people complaining, why is there no official reply from apple? Is this some kind of thing to purposly make people upgrade their phones? Class action!!!

I feel the same way. I use Bluetooth headphones and I too, noticed that the sound quality has gone downhill.

Same here. Just bought an iPod touch 6 with ios 9, sounded perfect, then updated to ios 10 and it sounded really ******. No matter what headphones I used. When you buy an ipod for 250 bucks you expect some good *** sound quality, but no, I just wasted money on nothing. I just don't feel like listening to music with crap like this. Downgrading to ios 9.

I also feel the same way. Updated iphone6 to ios10 and the sound quality is awesome. Previously i could listen continuously for hours altogether. After ios10 update after hearing 10min, got headache.

Apple, request you to please fix this or suggest a setting which need to be changed.

Thanks for the tip not quite like before, but better.