Can’t Hear Your Instagram Stories? It’s an iOS 15 Bug

If you put in iOS 15 already, you’ve most likely seen that Instagram has been doing an annoying factor the place it gained’t play audio on Instagram Stories except you flip your iPhone ringer on. Today Instagram has pushed out an app replace that fixes the bug.

This has been a difficulty since iOS 15 first rolled out as a beta. Instagram muted audio on Stories if the iPhone ringer was switched to silent. That’s not likely how the ringer change is meant to work—it solely mutes sounds for texts, calls, and alarms, not sounds in apps. After all, simply because you retain your cellphone on silent doesn’t imply you don’t wish to blast your favourite music or watch your nemesis make an entire idiot of themselves on Instagram.

It’s unclear how widespread the issue was, with some of us on Reddit claiming that silent mode has been causing issues in Instagram since iOS 14. However, it seems that this wasn’t a difficulty restricted to the developer and public iOS 15 betas.

Instagram has additionally mounted one other bug, as noticed by 9to5Mac, that needed to do with the iPhone 13’s smaller notch. If you’re utilizing the most recent iPhone, chances are you’ll have seen that the search bar on the prime was layered beneath the iOS standing bar, which made it tough to look, entry your DMs, and so forth.

You don’t should do something particular to get the repair. All you must do is obtain the newest replace. That mentioned, it is a good instance of why you would possibly wish to wait a bit earlier than upgrading to the newest software program or cellphone. Facebook has pushed out a repair comparatively shortly for people operating the general public launch, however anybody who’s been operating the developer or public betas has been coping with this irksome bug for months. Granted, it’s not a system-breaking bug and iOS 15 has to this point been fairly secure. Even so, the primary few weeks of a brand new software program launch are usually when you must take care of some small however annoying bugs like this one. Now if solely we may get Instagram to push out an replace that restores the chronological feed.