Apple might have dropped built-in noise cancellation on the iPhone 13 | Engadget

Apple’s “Noise Cancellation” accessibility function has been a staple on previous iPhones, however might have been completely faraway from the iPhone 13 sequence, 9to5Mac has reported. The function is designed to “reduce ambient noise on phone calls when you are holding the receiver to your ear,” a function that may assist make calls simpler to listen to. 

“Phone Noise Cancellation is not available on iPhone 13 models, which is why you do not see this option in [the Accessibility] settings,” Apple help informed considered one of 9to5Mac‘s readers. When the reader requested for clarification, the help crew confirmed that the function is “not supported.”

Questions about noise cancellation got here up on Reddit and Apple support pages shortly after the telephone went on sale, with readers noticing that it was not accessible on the Accessibility web page. The function remains to be accessible with iOS 15 on previous iPhone fashions, however is nowhere to be discovered on the iPhone 13. 

“Noise Cancellation” usually makes use of an iPhone’s digital camera microphone to detect and remove ambient noise round you, so you’ll be able to extra simply hear the opposite particular person on a telephone or FaceTime name — one thing that may be worthwhile for the arduous of listening to. The challenge solely applies for those who use the handset by itself with out, say, Apple’s AirPods noise-cancelling earphones. (It doesn’t have an effect on what others hear; for that, Apple launched the Voice Isolation function with iOS 15.)  

Apple has but to formally affirm that the function has been completely eliminated on iPhone 13 gadgets; to date, the one phrase about it has come not directly from Apple Support. As such, Engadget has reached out to Apple for additional clarification.