New updates are being added at the bottom of this story……
Original story (published on November 27, 2020) follows:
Complaints of some annoying lock screen and keyboard sound issues on the iPhone 12 series have been flowing in for around a month now, but it seems that Apple is yet to acknowledge the issue.
Some of such complaints have been picked from the Apple forums and Reddit, and are given below.
As apparent from the above comments, in this issue, some system sounds like lock, unlock and typing sounds don’t seem to play properly.
Users state that the sound either gets cut off, sounds muffled, gets too loud, or plays at different volume levels each time. You can check out a video demonstration posted by a user about the same through this link.
Moreover, some users observed that they were only able to reproduce the issue only on the iPhone’s speakers, as playing those system sounds through AirPods resulted in no untoward behavior.
Initially, the matter was linked to MagSafe cases, as a couple of users had stated that taking the case off had fixed the issue for them.
But this was ruled out quickly enough by newer reports that state that the issue persists even with the case off.
Furthermore, users had hoped that the next iOS update would fix this annoying bug. Quite disappointingly though, the bug seems to have lived on, firstly through the the iOS 14.2 update, and now the latest iOS 14.3 beta.
A user did claim previously that the iOS 14.2 update fixed the issue for him. However the claims were refuted soon enough by some users who were facing the issue even on iOS 14.2.1.
It seems like Apple is unaware of the problem as of now. Hence, it is advisable to do the only thing you can do about the matter for now – give feedback. You can give feedback via this link.
Hopefully, if enough complaints go in, Apple will take the iPhone 12 series’ lock screen and keyboard sound issues seriously and acknowledge them soon. Fingers crossed.
For now, be sure to check out our dedicated iOS 14 bugs/issues tracker for more coverage on problems like these.
As clear from several reports, the lock and keyboard sound issues on iPhone 12 series have persisted with the latest stable iOS 14.3 update.
Update 1 (December 24)
There is still no official acknowledgment from Apple but we are all hopeful that the problem will get addressed with iOS 14.4.
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