There comes a time for many of us where we realize the sound coming from our phone doesn’t quite sound the way we want it to. Maybe it’s alittle muffled, or it feels unevenly balanced, or certain sounds feel like they should be louder or quieter. Whatever the case, there are a plethora of ways you could be dissatisfied with the way the audio coming from youriPhonesounds, and thankfully, many ways to fix it.
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Ways to fix these issues range from cleaning your iPhone, going into your phone’s settings, and using third party apps to change things up. Which methods you use depends on what the specific problem is, but it doesn’t hurt to give things a try and see what ends up working out for you.
1Clean your phone and headphones
There might be actual dirt in there
If your audio is sounding a little funky coming from your phone speakers, your first course of action should be to clean your speakers. Dust and dirt can build up quickly down there, so it takes a good amount of time to get it out of there.
You can carefully use a toothpick or some tightly rolled up paper towel to get into the little speaker holes and clean them out, and you can also use a cotton swab with a bit of rubbing alcohol to help dissolve any dirt.
If the sound problem is coming out through earbuds, you should also considercleaning those as well. you may easily clean out ear tips using a cotton swab and a bit of rubbing alcohol, and if it doesn’t help the sound quality issue in the end, at least you cleaned your earbuds.
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2Enable high quality streaming
You could’ve been listening to the lowest quality audio this whole time
In yourmusic streaming appof choice, you’ll be able to choose between streaming quality options in your settings. If you’ve been streaming music at the lowest quality to save on storage or data use, changing it to the maximum quality will definitely be an improvement.
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3Go lossless
Lossy compression is out, lossless is in
The best quality audio you may get islossless audio. Lossless refers to the way the audio file is compressed, and what you’re not losing is details like a lower noise floor or greater dynamic range. Lossy compressed audio files like MP3s lack a lot of the nuance that a lossless file like a FLAC retains, so listening to lossless audio will make a difference to your music quality.
You can listen to CD-quality audio on streaming platforms like Apple Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, Tidal, Deezer, and Qobuz, or by buying CD-quality audio directly from artists.
If you want to listen to lossless audio, you’re first going to need to make sure you have wired headphones, a wired speaker, or a Wi-Fi-enabled speaker. Lossless doesn’t work over Bluetooth, so you’ll want to keep it analog. You can listen to CD-quality audio on streaming platforms like Apple Music,Amazon Music Unlimited,Tidal,Deezer, and Qobuz, or by buying CD-quality audio directly from artists.
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4Get more technical in accessibility settings
One of the most underrated areas of the Settings app
In your iPhone’s settings, you’re able to change a few different audio settings and see if any of them improve your audio experience. To get here, go toSettings>Accessibility>Audio/Visual.
First, you can go into Headphone accommodations, where you can adjust your audio tone, and choose whether you want soft sounds to be slightly louder, moderately loud, or a lot stronger.
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You can also choose to turn your audio to mono, which means the same audio will play from both speaker or headphone channels, rather than having stereo separation. If you’re listening to audio that’s mixed badly or unevenly, mono might suit you better.
Lastly, you can adjust the balance between your left and right audio channels. If you’re listening to unevenly mixed audio, you can choose to make one channel a bit louder to accommodate it, or if you have better hearing in one ear than the other, you can adjust it accordingly.
5Use the equalizer in your streaming or headphones apps
From presets to custom EQ, you’ve got a few good options
If you’re using wireless earbuds or headphones, and they come with an app, there’s a good chance you have access to an equalizer. To find out if you have an equalizer in your headphones' app, you can either read the manual that came with your headphones, or you can look through the app to see if there are any sound adjustment settings, presets, or a banded equalizer.
You can also use the equalizer in some streaming apps to adjust your sound, but this will obviously only apply to the music you listen to using that streaming service on this device.
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