3 Earpiece Issues

When you buy a new smartphone — and particularly an iPhone — you obviously expect it to “just work.” That’s why it’s especially frustrating when users find a flaw in their brand new device. In the iPhone 8, for example, a concerning number of users are reporting a “very annoying” issue during routine use of their new handsets.

Specifically, users are reporting that they hear a distracting, high-pitched static-like sound during calls using the devices’ front-facing earpiece. Though it seems to be a software-side issue rather than a hardware one, it’s still a problem. Certainly not on the scale of exploding batteries, but Apple would do well to fix the problem sooner than later.