How to improve iPhone sound quality

Main points

• Clean your phone and headphones to improve sound quality.
• Enable high-quality streaming for a better audio experience.
• Lossless for the best audio quality.

For many of us, there are times when we realize that the sounds coming from our phones don’t quite sound the way we want them to. Maybe it’s a little muffled, or it feels unbalanced, or certain sounds feel like they should be louder or quieter. Regardless, there are many ways you might be dissatisfied with the audio sound coming from your iPhone, and thankfully, there are ways to fix the problem.

Solutions to these issues include cleaning your iPhone, going into your phone’s settings, and using third-party apps to make changes. Which method to use depends on what the specific problem is, but it doesn’t hurt to try it out and see how it works out for you in the end.

1 Clean your phone and headphones

There might actually be dirt in there.

If the audio coming out of your phone’s speakers sounds a little strange, your first action should be to clean the speakers. Dust and dirt can quickly accumulate there, so it will take a long time to remove it.

You can carefully use a toothpick or tightly rolled paper towel to get into the speaker hole and clean it out, or you can use a cotton swab with a little rubbing alcohol to help dissolve any grime.

If the sound problem is coming through your earbuds, you should also consider cleaning them. You can easily clean your earbuds with a cotton swab and a bit of rubbing alcohol, and if that doesn’t end up fixing your sound quality issue, at least you’ve cleaned your earbuds.

2 Enable high quality streaming

You may have been listening to the lowest quality audio

In the music streaming app of your choice, you can select streaming quality options in the settings. If you’ve been playing music at the lowest quality to save storage space or data usage, changing it to the highest quality will definitely improve it.

If you use Spotify, you can change the streaming quality with the following steps.

1. go set up, Then privacy.
2. go audio quality.
3. then select very high For streaming quality.
4. Here you can also adjust Download quality and switch Automatically adjust quality On or off.
   • When your internet connection is poor, this can reduce the quality of your streaming music.

For Apple Music users, you can change the streaming quality with the following steps.

1. go set up, Then music.
2. choose audio quality.
3. Then select your quality selectionwhich includes lossless audio.

3 Lossless

Lossy compression is out, lossless compression is in

The best quality audio you can get is lossless audio. Lossless refers to an audio file being compressed in such a way that you don’t lose details such as a lower noise floor or greater dynamic range. Lossy compressed audio files like MP3 lack many of the nuances retained by lossless files like FLAC, so listening to lossless audio can have an impact on the quality of your music.

You can listen to CD-quality audio on streaming platforms like Apple Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, Tidal, Deezer, and Qobuz, or purchase CD-quality audio directly from the artist.

If you want to listen to lossless audio, you first need to make sure you have wired headphones, wired speakers, or Wi-Fi-enabled speakers. Lossless doesn’t work over bluetooth, so you need to keep emulating. You can listen to CD-quality audio on streaming platforms like Apple Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, Tidal, Deezer, and Qobuz, or purchase CD-quality audio directly from the artist.

4 Get more technical information in Accessibility Settings

One of the most underrated areas of the Settings app

In your iPhone’s settings, you can change a few different audio settings to see if they improve your audio experience.To get here, visit set up > Accessibility > Audio/Video.

First, you get into Headphone Adjustments, where you can adjust the audio tone and choose whether you want soft sounds to be slightly louder, medium louder, or stronger.

You can also choose to convert the audio to mono, which means the same audio will be played from the speakers or headphone channels instead of stereo separation. If you’re listening to poorly mixed or uneven audio, mono may be better for you.

Finally, you can adjust the balance between the left and right channels. If you’re listening to unevenly mixed audio, you can choose to turn one channel up a bit to accommodate it, or if you hear better in one ear than the other, you can adjust it accordingly.

5 Use equalizer in streaming or headphone apps

From presets to custom equalizers, you have some great options

If you use wireless earbuds or headphones and they come with an app, there’s a good chance you can use an equalizer. To find out if there is an equalizer in the headphone app, you can read the manual that came with the headset, or you can check the app to see if there are any sound adjustment settings, presets, or strip equalizers.

You can also use the equalizer in some streaming apps to adjust the sound, but this obviously only applies to music you listen to using that streaming service on this device.

To access equalizer on Spotify:

1. go set up.
2. go Playback.
3. go Equalizer — Here you can choose from a variety of presets or adjust them manually using the six-band equalizer.

To access the equalizer on Apple Music:

1. go set up.
2. go music > Emotional intelligence.
3. You can choose from a list of presets.
4. You can also turn on sound checkwhich will normalize the volume of all audio you listen to on Apple Music.