iPad Pro 11" still makes noise when muted!

I have just come across this same issue. In an app with sound, muting still leaves a trace of distorted sound coming through the speaker. In a game where I’ve muted the sounds in game as well as having iPad sound set to mute I can hear a low level hiss. This is on iPad Pro 11” 256Gb.

I have been having the same issue on my 2018 iPad. I can’t say that my solution will solve everyone’s problem, but it worked for me. I turned on CHANGE WITH BUTTONS and MONO AUDIO. I used the buttons to completely mute my iPad the first time, but after that, the top right slider worked the same.

Hope this helps!

I noticed this problem today as well. The volume on my apps are all the way up and the iPad volume is muted. When I turn down the volume in the app then I no longer hear it on the ipad. Seems there needs to be one more level of silencing from iOS.

So, I’m experiencing the exact same thing on my 12.9 inch 256GB WiFi Model. I was playing a game called Brawl Stars when I first noticed it. I had the volume all the way to “mute” and was hearing the games noise and I thought I was crazy thinking my brain just knew the tune so well that it was filling in the beat of the games music. Mind you, this is the third iPad I’ve had a problem with. The other two had dead pixels right out of the box and once you notice it, you can’t unnotice it! That’s when I thought this one would be the iPad to bring me peace. Then this happens. I’m upset about the quality of this “expensive” product that cost over $1,000 dollars. The distorted noise only comes out of the speaker next to the power button. I’m just curious to wonder if it could be a software or a hardware issue.

I’d like to understand what your thoughts of this issue are or how you intend to handle this situation as a whole.

Thank you kindly for letting me know I’m not crazy!

This is a frustrating bug. I have a 2018 iPad Pro wi-if 256 GB just purchased a week ago. I’m sitting in meetings, with mute on, and yet I hear every notification (and so does the rest of the room). Not sure how to fix, or if Apple needs to address a bug here.

I've tested this and it makes no difference for me, either with that option enable and changing ringer/alert volume via the buttons, or by manually reducing that to 0.

In an app streaming video with sound (such as Netflix, or Sky Go) I can reduce the volume to 0, and still hear the faint distorted sound coming through the speakers regardless of the ringer/alert setting. In a room with ambient noise you don't really notice it. In a quiet room (at night for example) it's immediately obvious.

I’m having the same issue on my new iPad. Noticing it when in a quiet room, any audio that’s playing in a video, game, or music is still playing faintly even with the volume supposedly muted. Seems like a real bug.

I noticed that when I made a factory reset via iTunes, it fixed the issue... kind of. You won't hear the sound anymore, but you can hear a hissing when you put ear near the speaker. Not a perfect solution, but you can't hear the hissing in normal use.

Same issue. Seems to hiss and crackle regardless if on mute or turned down. It seems to happen when i have apps that play audio active. Can hear dead air also as if the speakers keyed when there are breaks in the distortion. Only thing that stops it is if i select my airpods or homepod as an audio output.

Have this same issue on a regular 6th Gen iPad. In quiet room you can still hear game sounds faintly. I put ringer volume all the way down, and turned on mono audio, and then i clicked volume up once then volume down and it seemed to go silent. Don't know if all the steps are necessary but it worked for me. I still hear a faint staticy air sound like the speakers are still being powered if i put my ear right up to them but no game sounds are coming out now.

I’ve just noticed this on my 11” iPad too. Very very feint sounds from apps even though it’s muted.

I think that I figured it out:

I turned this on so that I could use my buttons to bring the ringer/notification sounds down as well as the general volume.

I have the same problem. I sent the device to warranty service and I got the replacement device... the same problem —but worse!— both the right and left speakers are defective!

I have noticed the same thing for my 11 inch 256gb iPad Pro...when muted I still hear every apps notification sound. Has anyone heard of any solution yet?

I have the same issue.... I wish I hadn’t opened the thread... Apple needs to fix that!