After reporting various problems such as the "green line of death" on the screen, GPS problems, and cold weather issues, some iPhone X owners are reportedly hearing irregular sounds and ringing from the earpiece speaker.
MacRumors reports that a limited but growing number of iPhone X users are claiming that “crackling” or “buzzing” sounds are coming from the smartphone’s front-facing earpiece speaker, but only when they use music at high volume during music or video playback, but also during phone calls, alarms, or ringtones.
"I love the phone, but I was wondering if anyone has had issues with the speakers sounding slightly crackling," user ShadowYYZ wrote on the MacRumors forums.
"It was noticed in some songs and even in my ringtone purchased from the iTunes Store.".
It seems that not everyone is affected by this issue. It also appears that the problem does not stem from the version of the iOS 11 operating system installed on the device.
The iPhone X was released just two weeks ago with iOS 11.0.1 installed by default, although Apple released iOS 11.1.1 a few days ago with various improvements.
iOS 11.1.1, however, does not seem to fix the above problem.
As for Apple?
Apple has yet to comment on the issue, but it's not the first time something like this has happened, as iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus owners last month reported a static noise issue in the earpiece speaker during phone calls, which was fixed with iOS 11.0.2, a simple software update.
