Siri or microphone issue on iPhone 7 Plus
A few weeks ago, I noticed that Siri could not hear me properly. First, I thought that it was some sort of temporarily hick up. But after a few days it was still a problem and now it started to annoy me.
When I use a headset (Lightning or Bluetooth) Siri understands my just fine. But without the headset it picks up less than half of the words I say.
This is what I already tried:
- Turn phone on and off
- Turn Siri on and off
- Hard reset phone
- Install iOS 12 beta
- Clean install iOS 11.4 without restoring from back up.
To test the three separate microphones, I made a video with front facing camera and the camera on the back. The microphone on the bottom I tested with the voice memos app.I also tried to cover up the other microphones. Just to be sure the recorded sound was coming from the right mic I wanted to test.
All the microphones seem to work fine, but somehow Siri does not hear my properly without headphones.
My one-year warranty from Apple has expired. I do have two-year warranty from the shop that I bought from. But I want to be sure that it is hardware related.
Is there something else that I can try?
iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 11.4.1