iPhone 16 Pro Max Audio clipping with speakerphone on iPhone 16 Pro Max

[Eurisko2]

I'm running into the oddest issue. The person I am talking to is experiencing audio clipping when I am talking to them in a specific situation. It's 100% repeatable.

Steps to reproduce:
1.) Lay down
2.) Lay the phone on your chest like between your pecs.
3.) Orient the phone so the bottom/mic points at your head, and the top of the phone towards your feet.
4.) Get on a speakerphone call

Funny enough, this is a very common use case for me. It's 100% repeatable as well. If I do the above, the person I am talking to can't hardly understand me and experiences severe clipping of my voice. I have repeated this with a friend that has the same phone and I can confirm I can't hardly understand her it's so bad.

If you just turn the phone 90 degrees, then it works perfectly. Turn it back, and the other person gets the audio clipping again. This happened to me on both ios 18 and ios 18.1.

Anyone else?

 

[Fred Zed]

I'm running into the oddest issue. The person I am talking to is experiencing audio clipping when I am talking to them in a specific situation. It's 100% repeatable.

Steps to reproduce:
1.) Lay down
2.) Lay the phone on your chest like between your pecs.
3.) Orient the phone so the bottom/mic points at your head, and the top of the phone towards your feet.
4.) Get on a speakerphone call

Funny enough, this is a very common use case for me. It's 100% repeatable as well. If I do the above, the person I am talking to can't hardly understand me and experiences severe clipping of my voice. I have repeated this with a friend that has the same phone and I can confirm I can't hardly understand her it's so bad.

If you just turn the phone 90 degrees, then it works perfectly. Turn it back, and the other person gets the audio clipping again. This happened to me on both ios 18 and ios 18.1.

Anyone else?

Does it have to be laid down between my pecs? Just trying to emulate it whist at work. Also does it matter what item of clothing if any I need to be wearing ?

 

[Eurisko2]

Does it have to be laid down between my pecs? Just trying to emulate it whist at work. Also does it matter what item of clothing if any I need to be wearing ?

I haven't tried any other situation with it, I just know it's consistent in that situation. If it's laying on my desk it doesn't do it, but I'm elevated and more at a 45 degree angle from it. I should try getting down next to it and see if I can reproduce it. Whatever you are wearing doesn't impact it. I thought at first my shirt was blocking the mic, but that wasn't the case.

It's certainly not the end of the world, but it's a habit in how I use it, and it annoys me. lol