iPhone - left channel audio only

[wjs2]

3 years later ...

Back to the thread about what we'll discuss in 2019.

This is 2019 answering back. My iphone 6 and HomePod only play one channel of stereo music. I have just one HomePod. The iPhone only streams one channel of sound to the CarPlay.

Maybe 10 years is too soon to expect a solution?
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This is 2019 answering back. My iphone 6 and HomePod only play one channel of stereo music. I have just one HomePod. The iPhone only streams one channel of sound to the CarPlay.

Maybe 10 years is too soon to expect a solution?

 

[Lekro]

WoW.

 

[ScottyTheMenace]

How To Fix Audio from One Channel Only (e.g. left speaker only)

My iPhone 4 has an audio balance slider in Settings -> General -> Accessibility, scroll down to "Led Flash for Alerts, Mono Audio, and L - R balance".

When I applied an IOS update, I lost the right channel for music, but not phone calls... Curious place to put the audio channel balance ;-<

But all better now.

This is a really crazy and apparently long-standing bug. Nearly 7 years later this is still an issue.

I couldn't hear the left channel over Bluetooth in my car or over wired earphones. This thread was the first search result when I was trying to flag down the problem and @dave401's solution solved the problem. Thanks!

I "updated" (and with new Apple systems this is always in scare quotes) to iOS 12.3 on both my iPhone 5S and iPad 5th Generation but the problem only affected my iPhone. I even tried to find fader controls in Settings and the Music app but couldn't find it anywhere. As you say, bizarre place to put fader controls. And a very bizarre bug.