How to improve your iPhone's call quality
Big Tech Apple How to improve your iPhone's call quality When calls drops or sound terrible, here's what to do. 4, 2026 6:00 pm EST Apple Add Engadget on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover When you're not using your iPhone as a music player, camera or gaming platform, you might actually use it as a phone. If calls sound muffled or metallic, cut out intermittently or are drowned by background noise, you can take steps to fix the problems.
- ▪Big Tech Apple How to improve your iPhone's call quality When calls drops or sound terrible, here's what to do.
- ▪4, 2026 6:00 pm EST Apple Add Engadget on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover When you're not using your iPhone as a music player, camera or gaming platform, you might actually use it as a phone.
- ▪If calls sound muffled or metallic, cut out intermittently or are drowned by background noise, you can take steps to fix the problems.
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Big Tech Apple How to improve your iPhone's call quality When calls drops or sound terrible, here's what to do. By Jonny Evans Oct. 4, 2026 6:00 pm EST Apple Add Engadget on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover When you're not using your iPhone as a music player, camera or gaming platform, you might actually use it as a phone. And when you do, call quality matters. If calls sound muffled or metallic, cut out intermittently or are drowned by background noise, you can take steps to fix the problems. Most of the time, the causes are poor signal strength, outdated carrier settings or physical barriers like walls or metallic veneers on glass. What you can try during the call First, check your volume and speaker output.
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