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iOS 12.1.1 Beta 3 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Was the Smart Keyboard attached to the iPad? That message happens when the SmartKeyboard starts to fail.
This was on an XS Max. Nothing connected to phone. Hasn’t done it again since yesterday.
Any news on the iPhone XS/MAX earpiece buzz being solved? Its kind of a huge problem for many people.
If its a hardware fail, this is present in all the iPhone XS/Max that I've tested. I've been today in an apple store and all the phones failed this simple test:
Set the "piano riff" as your default ringtone (it's inside the classic ringtones tab). Play the ringtone at 100% volume, hear the crackling/buzz in the earpiece speaker.
If it's a hardware issue, it's clearly a design flaw.
Sheesh, where do you people come up with these extreme "tests"? The crackling sound may be your eardrum tearing...
This buzz happens during all phone calls, I just tried a simple way to replicate this issue. In general, people with good hearing have no problem detecting this buzz. Anyway, with the piano riff ringtone its a pretty easy thing to detect for anyone. I urge everyone to try it out.
I don't have great hearing, but the people I speak with sound crystal clear on my Xs.
Don't get me wrong, but I understand that for people that don't have great hearing it might be undetectable. Anyways, if you can do the piano riff ringtone test it would be great to know your case.
I did try this (ears ringing now). I do detect some distortion. That might be the effect though and not the phone's speaker.
Thanks for the test!
I’m pretty sure that we are talking about the same issue. I’ve never had this problem with an iPhone. This problem happens with the volume of the iPhone over 70%-100%. Its kind of crazy that something so basic like the earpiece doesn’t perform perfect in such a premium device.
Well, ringtones are probably not intended to be hi fidelity in any event and playing them through the earpiece probably magnifies the issue. I would test it out on a piece of music that is intended to be listened to (rather than alert you) and see if you are hearing the same issues. If so, then I'd say you're experiencing some problems...
If you listen to the first minute of the following piece of music you will probably hear some of this buzz:
Nevertheless, ringtones should sound perfectly in a +1K$ phone.
Hi All, sorry for my quest, I have a upper speaker issue, dont working speaker durino the listen to music, I must switch on turn off, and after it restart, it work, but after a small time the speaker issue came back.
I hear it now. Since it’s only the XS. This is totally hardware. The speakers are overloaded and can’t handle low end properly at high volumes. Lowering the volume you’ll see it gets clear. The slight buzz can be fixed with software.
Thanks for the answer!
I think too that this is a problem of overloading the earpiece speaker. The more people I talk to the more it seems to be a pretty spread issue. I just hope that Apple can solve this somehow and say publicly that they are working on this.
Anyway, it really bothers me because it happens in every single phone call that I have (I’ve tried with other XS and it’s exactly the same...)
Sorry for a dumb question, but I’m new to Apple’s Beta program.
When an official release comes out, what do I have to do to be able to download it?
And then what do I do to get back on beta?
Or, is it smart and I don’t have to do anything?
When an official release comes out, what do I have to do to be able to download it?
And then what do I do to get back on beta?
Or, is it smart and I don’t have to do anything?
Can I ask you when did you get the phone? Have you tried the piano riff ringtone test?
Thanks!
Anyways it’s a pretty big issue in the apple discussions web:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8550004
My voice-activated Siri shortcuts stopped working. Worked OK yesterday, not today. Same iOS version (beta3), iPhone XS. Restarting phone didn’t help.
For example, shortcut is “Send coming home”. Instead of running my shortcut to compute ETA and send it to my spouse, now Siri says “who do you want to send it to?” with “coming home” in a text message draft. ??
For example, shortcut is “Send coming home”. Instead of running my shortcut to compute ETA and send it to my spouse, now Siri says “who do you want to send it to?” with “coming home” in a text message draft. ??