This article covers eight easy ways to fix the most common reasons your iPhone isn’t making the sounds it should.
Reasons Why the Speaker on Your iPhone Isn’t Working During Calls, Notifications, or Other Situations
Fixing an iPhone when a speaker doesn’t work isn’t necessarily hard, but it can be tricky. That’s because many things can potentially cause an iPhone’s speaker to remain silent. For example, the phone could be on mute without you realizing it, Bluetooth might be sending the sound somewhere else, or audio output settings might be messing things up. Most of the time, the exact cause of a faulty iPhone speaker isn’t clear until you’ve tried the corresponding fix.
How to Fix a Non-Working iPhone Speaker
If your iPhone speaker isn’t working properly, follow these steps, in order, to troubleshoot the problem and get it working again. To get your iPhone speakers working again, toggle the ringer switch. Do this by flipping it down (or towards the back of the phone) so that the orange underlay appears, then flip it back up. Also, raise the volume on the phone as high as it will go. Then, adjust any of the following: Adjust the volume slider, move the Change with Buttons toggle switch to on/green, set a new ringtone, or set a new text tone. If so, turning off Bluetooth breaks the connection to the speaker and plays audio through the iPhone speaker again. To turn off Bluetooth, select Settings > Bluetooth, then move the Bluetooth toggle switch to off/white. Like with a restart, this isn’t the most likely fix, but it has the potential to help. Plus, since updates are free and quick to install, it’s worth a try.
