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Phone Noise Cancellation Missing?
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I have it on my X (15.0). Looks just like your first pic.. What kind of phone are you talking about?
THIS IS NOT A BUG
I too do not have phone noise cancellation on my iPhone 13 Pro on iOS 15.
This is because the iPhone 13 series with the new smaller notch LACK THE MICROPHONE that is near the earspeaker/receiver. This missing microphone was used to measure sound close to the earpiece, such as your hand rubbing the side of the phone, wind noise
The old original notch found on iPhone 12 series, 11 series, XS/XR and X has this extra microphone built in the earpiece/receiver hidden under the earpiece speaker mesh.
If you have an iPhone 12/11/XS/XR/X and you look at the description for Phone Noise Cancellation under Accessibility and you will see it is only activated when you use the earpiece receiver, which means the proximity sensor activates the earpiece microphone, which also means Phone Noise Cancellation is disable when you are on speakerphone or using a Bluetooth headset.
I too do not have phone noise cancellation on my iPhone 13 Pro on iOS 15.
This is because the iPhone 13 series with the new smaller notch LACK THE MICROPHONE that is near the earspeaker/receiver. This missing microphone was used to measure sound close to the earpiece, such as your hand rubbing the side of the phone, wind noise
The old original notch found on iPhone 12 series, 11 series, XS/XR and X has this extra microphone built in the earpiece/receiver hidden under the earpiece speaker mesh.
If you have an iPhone 12/11/XS/XR/X and you look at the description for Phone Noise Cancellation under Accessibility and you will see it is only activated when you use the earpiece receiver, which means the proximity sensor activates the earpiece microphone, which also means Phone Noise Cancellation is disable when you are on speakerphone or using a Bluetooth headset.
Well, I cannot confirm if it works or not as the earpiece speaker sounds the same on calls on VoLTE
Hardware wise, this could be a downgrade as you no longer have a front facing microphone for selfie videos or "Slow-fies" *Trademark lol, remember that? It was big marketing crap with the iphone 11 series lol
Well I had a quick Google and it says there is still a front facing mic?
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I just took another look at apple documentation, it seems like there is a microphone after all, probably very hidden as it wasnt assistant during the new Face ID earpiece teardown.
Now I am as confused as you all why there is no phone noise cancellation option
Sorry for the prior inaccurate information folks, I should have checked directly with Apple first
Now I am as confused as you all why there is no phone noise cancellation option
Sorry for the prior inaccurate information folks, I should have checked directly with Apple first
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Apple Support says iPhone 13 models don't support Noise Cancellation feature available in previous iPhones - 9to5Mac
9to5Mac has reported an outgrowing complaint from iPhone 13 users about the lack of a noise-canceling feature for phone calls.
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I'm surprised MacRumors hasn't made a story about noise cancellation being gone on the 13.Apple Support says iPhone 13 models don't support Noise Cancellation feature available in previous iPhones - 9to5Mac
9to5Mac has reported an outgrowing complaint from iPhone 13 users about the lack of a noise-canceling feature for phone calls.
The odd thing is nobody can hear whats going on in the background even without it, I wonder if its now done by some algorithm, I can clap as loudly as I want and people cant here it or play music in the backgroud really loudly and its muffled so something is doing some kind of noise cancelation somehow on the iPhone 13 Pro, I mean how does FaceTimes voice isolation work then if it has had the feature removed?
Quite the disappointment, ala 3D touch.
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Apple Support says iPhone 13 models don't support Noise Cancellation feature available in previous iPhones - 9to5Mac
9to5Mac has reported an outgrowing complaint from iPhone 13 users about the lack of a noise-canceling feature for phone calls.
9to5mac.com
What a strange omission by Apple, or is it a mistake? Or possibly it’s been replaced by something else? Very weird.
Not to worry, friends! I just finished talking to an iOS Senior Advisor and they assured me this is certainly not true. They pointed me to this Apple support article, which clearly details this iOS 15 feature: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/audio-settings-iph3e2e2cdc/ios. They assured me that if Apple removed a feature from a device, Apple would make every customer aware before they purchased the product, the Apple Support site and iPhone User Guide would be updated, and all Senior Advisors would know before any customer did, because Senior Advisors talk to Apple Engineers every hour.
If this feature isn't operating as expected, the Senior Advisor instructs everyone to restart their iPhone. If it still doesn't work, the Senior Advisor instructs everyone to force restart their iPhone. If it still doesn't work, the Senior Advisor instructs everyone to do an erase and re-install of the AccessibilityOS. To do this, you'll need to uninstall AccessibilityOS (NOT iOS) and do a fresh installation by plugging AccessabilityOS into iTunes on a Mac only. Because iTunes is no longer available, they will need to do an escalation to Engineering. Within 48 hr, Engineering will request a Data Capture. You'll need to download the Data Capture software, replicate the issue, wait 20 min, and then plug-in your iPhone. You'll then start Data Capture, with Mail Logging enabled just be be safe, and allow it to collect the logs. Once the logs are collected, you'll compress them an upload them to Apple. Once you've done that, Engineering will reply within 48 hr. Engineering will state that Apple's Official Position on the Matter is that no further troubleshooting will be provided and keep your iPhone up to date.
If this feature isn't operating as expected, the Senior Advisor instructs everyone to restart their iPhone. If it still doesn't work, the Senior Advisor instructs everyone to force restart their iPhone. If it still doesn't work, the Senior Advisor instructs everyone to do an erase and re-install of the AccessibilityOS. To do this, you'll need to uninstall AccessibilityOS (NOT iOS) and do a fresh installation by plugging AccessabilityOS into iTunes on a Mac only. Because iTunes is no longer available, they will need to do an escalation to Engineering. Within 48 hr, Engineering will request a Data Capture. You'll need to download the Data Capture software, replicate the issue, wait 20 min, and then plug-in your iPhone. You'll then start Data Capture, with Mail Logging enabled just be be safe, and allow it to collect the logs. Once the logs are collected, you'll compress them an upload them to Apple. Once you've done that, Engineering will reply within 48 hr. Engineering will state that Apple's Official Position on the Matter is that no further troubleshooting will be provided and keep your iPhone up to date.
Apple has confirmed that the lack of noise cancellation feature on the iPhone 13 is not a bug. The company has intentionally disabled the setting,, and currently have no plans for changing it.
Only thing I can think of is that a lot of noice cancelling is done via software these days (think: Discord) - I would imagine if a feature like this was removed, we'd be having a lot more people complaining about call quality.
Do you have a link to where an official source has said that?
I just think it‘s weird. Developers have said that there‘s still the same amount of microphones in the iPhone 13 models as before, so it seems to come down to software. Why would they intentionally omit something like that? I mean they already have the code for noise filtering anyway, so it‘s not likely it saved them any development effort.
It seems like a bug to me, but I could be wrong, of course.