iOS 16.4 Adds Voice Isolation for Cellular Phone Calls

[MacRumors]

The iOS 16.4 update that is set to be released to the public in the near future includes voice isolation for cellular calls, according to notes that Apple shared today.

Apple says that Voice Isolation will prioritize your voice and block out the ambient noise around you, making for clearer phone calls where you can better hear the person you're chatting with and vice versa.

Voice Isolation has been available for VoIP calls that use FaceTime, WhatsApp, and other apps on devices running iOS 15 or macOS Monterey or later, and it is designed to significantly improve microphone quality when on calls by cutting down on background noise. Until now, it was not available for cellular conversations, with Apple offering no way to improve call quality.

On a FaceTime call, Voice Isolation can be enabled by activating control center, tapping on the Mic Mode option, and choosing the Voice Isolation option, so the feature may be able to be activated in a similar way for voice calls.

Other iOS 16.4 features include new emojis, Push Notifications for web apps, bug fixes for HomeKit, Crash Detection optimizations, and more.

Article Link: iOS 16.4 Adds Voice Isolation for Cellular Phone Calls

 

[redbeard331]

I need this

 

[Sith_lord]

Finally!!! It irked the hell out of me that voice isolation is supported for every other form of voice calls besides cellular. Which I use the most, and I am sure others do to. I don't get why they didn't release this support at launch of the voice isolation feature.

This will greatly increase the clarity of calls between iphone users overall. This update should also dramatically increase voice clarity while using airpods!

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Wow! such a useful feature. This should have been released a long time ago. We also need Cellular Phone Call Recording Feature.

 

[Franjelisco]

Wow! such a useful feature. This should have been released a long time ago. We also need Cellular Phone Call Recording Feature.

nahh that won't happen due to legal reasons in many countries...

 

[123]

We also need Cellular Phone Call Recording Feature.

This will never be implemented for privacy reasons.

 

[centauratlas]

I hope that they really fix the HomeKit bugs in here. I wish I hadn’t updated before.

 

[cdsapplefan]

Wow! such a useful feature. This should have been released a long time ago. We also need Cellular Phone Call Recording Feature.

Only the government CIA , NSA is allowed to do that

 

[centauratlas]

If we can save voicemails why can't we save phone call recordings?

I think the difference is that you know a voicemail is being recorded whereas unless the implementation some type of notification at the start (Eg. “This phone call is being recorded” plus beeps) you don’t know whether a call is.
😀

Some places only need one party consent. Others need two or all.

 

[macsplusmacs]

Can you hear me now?

 

[upandown]

This was a feature previous to the iPhone 13. There were even articles about how the noise cancelation option disappearing for the newest phones.

The iPhone 13's noise cancellation is gone and not coming back

Apple confirms the removal of the Phone Noise Cancellation accessibility feature on its newest phones.

www.macworld.com

Apple may have dropped built-in noise cancellation on the iPhone 13

Apple's "Noise Cancellation" accessibility feature has been a staple on past iPhones, but may have been permanently removed from the iPhone 13.

www.engadget.com

Apple confirms iPhone 13 series lacks noise cancellation during phone calls

The feature was available on previous generation iPhones for over a decade. Apple Support officially confirmed iPhone 13 series lacks call noise...

www.gsmarena.com

 

[sitsonthefence]

Wonder if it will help calls that use beats ear pods. Mine are unusable outdoors.

 

[adrianlondon]

Is this American terminology?

The article clearly says "CELLULAR phone calls" but with a screenshot of a FaceTime call, which is internet based and runs over WiFi or mobile data.

 

[compwiz1202]

nahh that won't happen due to legal reasons in many countries...

Even states in USA. Some it is legal and some not and then with or without consent. Like every other law it can be 50 different versions in the 50 states. It's so annoying.

 

[avkills]

Isn't this something that should have been implemented since the beginning? Although I will admit the original iPhone kind of sucked as a phone, but it did do everything else just as Steve promised.

 

[cigz]

This was a feature previous to the iPhone 13. There were even articles about how the noise cancelation option disappearing for the newest phones.

The iPhone 13's noise cancellation is gone and not coming back

Apple confirms the removal of the Phone Noise Cancellation accessibility feature on its newest phones.

www.macworld.com

Apple may have dropped built-in noise cancellation on the iPhone 13

Apple's "Noise Cancellation" accessibility feature has been a staple on past iPhones, but may have been permanently removed from the iPhone 13.

www.engadget.com

Apple confirms iPhone 13 series lacks noise cancellation during phone calls

The feature was available on previous generation iPhones for over a decade. Apple Support officially confirmed iPhone 13 series lacks call noise...

www.gsmarena.com

They removed it so they can promote it now as a new innovative free feature 🤩

 

[antiprotest]

This was a feature previous to the iPhone 13. There were even articles about how the noise cancelation option disappearing for the newest phones.

The iPhone 13's noise cancellation is gone and not coming back

Apple confirms the removal of the Phone Noise Cancellation accessibility feature on its newest phones.

www.macworld.com

Apple may have dropped built-in noise cancellation on the iPhone 13

Apple's "Noise Cancellation" accessibility feature has been a staple on past iPhones, but may have been permanently removed from the iPhone 13.

www.engadget.com

Apple confirms iPhone 13 series lacks noise cancellation during phone calls

The feature was available on previous generation iPhones for over a decade. Apple Support officially confirmed iPhone 13 series lacks call noise...

www.gsmarena.com

Voice isolation is dramatically better than noise cancellation. It seems to be a different technology and much more effective.

 

[TwoBytes]

This is quite big deal news that impacts everyday life positivity. Late...but nice update!

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

How does this feature work? Is this feature going to cut out the annoying high-wind noises in the background?

 

[msackey]

Finally!!! It irked the hell out of me that voice isolation is supported for every other form of voice calls besides cellular. Which I use the most, and I am sure others do to. I don't get why they didn't release this support at launch of the voice isolation feature.

This will greatly increase the clarity of calls between iphone users overall. This update should also dramatically increase voice clarity while using airpods!

I'm curious too why voice isolation wasn't released for cellular calls. Good investigative reporting would dig into some of those details.

 

[Skoua]

I hope it will work with AirPods too.

 

[Jdizzle188]

Wow! such a useful feature. This should have been released a long time ago. We also need Cellular Phone Call Recording Feature.

You're opening up a whole new debate with this comment, I remember having this as an option on my Nokia N80 and N95, these days you'd have the whole privacy arguement before anything else.

I'm going to dig out my old N Series phones now, they were brilliant.

 

[itti]

Samsung phones have had excellent voice isolation for a long time now.

 

[ambientdaw]

On a related subject, on the VERY LOWEST VOLUME my iPhones calls are always way too loud for my ears without speaker and with ( I do have extremely sensitive hearing). Why do they keep it from being able to be set lower! Are other brands the same?

 

[Böhme417]

Is this American terminology?

The article clearly says "CELLULAR phone calls" but with a screenshot of a FaceTime call, which is internet based and runs over WiFi or mobile data.

I'm sure the screenshot was used because that was the only way it was available before and therefore the only example they had of what it looks like as a setting.