It’s Apple’s most costly smartphone but and was unveiled to a lot fanfare final month.
However the £1,599 ($1599 within the US) iPhone 15 Professional Max has not been with out its points — and now it appears there’s one other snag.
That is as a result of customers have complained that the speaker on their new handset rattles at excessive volumes.
One buyer even claimed to be on his third alternative as a result of his iPhone 15 Professional Max was ‘cracking prefer it has water in it’ when songs and movies are performed at ’80 per cent quantity’.
Apple followers have already branded the mannequin ‘fragile’, after a ‘sturdiness check’ by one consumer discovered that the telephone’s again glass shattered in his naked palms after being bent.
Others stated their iPhone 15 Professional smartphone overheated to greater than 100F (38C) – which consultants blamed on ‘compromises’ made within the design, whereas there have additionally been complaints about mud within the parts and even the metallic altering color.
Now, numerous Apple customers have taken to boards to report issues with their iPhone 15 Professional Max speaker.
Tech fanatic ‘MilesAboveTech’ stated his mannequin was changed by Apple as a result of it had a ‘tinny prime speaker’, solely to search out the brand new one had the identical problem however worse.
To make issues worse, he claims that the second alternative ‘nonetheless has the identical prime speaker problem’.
‘When the amount is above 80 per cent with some songs and movies the speaker rattles and cracks prefer it has water in it,’ he added.
‘Others appear to be having this problem too, which appears very odd as a result of normally audio system on iPhones are nice and have little to no points.’
One other buyer posted on a discussion board on the MacRumours web site asking whether or not anybody else was additionally skilled a speaker crackling problem on excessive quantity.
‘The speaker crackling problem occurs when 1) On excessive quantity watching video or listening to music 2) On common telephone calls (excessive quantity on speaker) . Nevertheless, even on excessive quantity, crackling would not occur on a regular basis,’ they wrote.
‘I might say, on common telephone calls with speaker on, crackling noise occur extra usually, and the crackling noise solely occur on the highest earpiece speaker.
‘Is it a defect? Ought to I get it changed? Aside from this, the telephone is nice.’
A number of individuals replied saying they had been additionally experiencing the identical drawback.
They questioned whether or not it was a software program or {hardware} problem, earlier than speculating {that a} software program replace would possibly repair the difficulty.
MailOnline has approached Apple for a remark concerning the experiences however is but to obtain a response.
On a Reddit discussion board one iPhone 15 Professional Max consumer stated the speaker drawback ‘seems to be a typical problem’.
In response to a different buyer who voiced a criticism, WallStreetKernel wrote: ‘My 15 Professional Max does the identical factor – it is not very noticeable on music, however noticeable on speech, significantly if the audio high quality is not nice.
‘Like yours, mine does it at excessive volumes.
‘Some individuals do not hear this as a result of they won’t be as “in tune” or delicate to audio high quality as we’re.
‘For instance, I discussed this to my spouse, and he or she thought I used to be loopy for pondering there was one thing mistaken with the speaker.’
They added that ‘the truth that a number of individuals are observing this problem makes me assume it’s a software program problem and Apple must tune the audio system’.
Apple unveiled its long-awaited iPhone 15 on the firm’s ‘Wonderlust’ occasion in California final month.
The usual vary of telephones begins at £799 ($799 within the US) and is available in the identical 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch screens that customers acquired from the final era of iPhones.
However the brand new handset encompasses a vital redesign to its display screen.
The ‘notch’ on the prime of the telephone, lengthy seen as a design flaw, has been changed by the ‘dynamic island’ used on its present Professional fashions.
The iPhone 15 additionally comes with a USB-C charging port — the identical one at the moment used to cost iPads and Macs.
It’s obtainable in 5 new colors – pink, yellow, inexperienced, blue and black – and has an upgraded digicam which ought to permit for extra highly effective zoom.
