No sound on iPhone after iOS 18 Update

Dont worry. Apple will issue a fix but do yourself a favour…download Outlook App. Get all your email accounts set up on that. You will get sound notifications. Maybe disable your other mail app(s) in settings so you dont get multiple notifications. 

My husband has the new 16 iPhone and was having this same issue of no or quiet speaker sound with incoming calls. We found out that there was a setting called “Attention Awareness Features” under Face ID & Attention. Once we turned this off, he had sound again. Hope this helps!

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abdulazeez197

Just some basic inquiries about your volume problem with your phone. Have you updated your phone to 18.0.1? Have you maximized the volume settings under both the Control Center and under Sounds & Haptics in Settings? I have found that sometimes my volume settings are different under these two areas where volume is controlled and it has affected my volume levels in other apps. Just trying to help out.

I got my sound back with texts. I went to Notifications, the Messages app, scrolled down to Notification Grouping, chose By App. I tested it and I got my sound alert back!!! I hope that helps you all!!!

I am having the same issue. I also do not get my phone ringer! No idea someone called until I see the cisual VM or the notification banner. Mine started also after the ios 18 upgrade. I have tried every trick on every video and forum and NOTHING is working. I do not want to try doing the 18.0.1 upgrade as I hear that is fraught with battery life issues. I cannot believe I can no longer get any sound notifications. I refuse to delete everything at this point. I will not reset. This is ridiculous and a MOST BASIC function. How can they not figure this out????

Audio on my iPhone 14 stopped working after ios 18 upgrade, I think it was the iOS 18.1.1 that caused it, so now my workphone can recieve calls but I can't hear the one I talked with but they can hear me. I assured that it only is software related issue with the dialer app by testing audio calls with Signal, that works, so it must be something buggy about the dialer app in ios 18.1.1, I eaven downgraded to iOS 18.1 but the same issue presists no sound in phone calls... All other sounds from other apps works thats not a problem, but the phone app is dead.

I need a working company phone,

Any tips or suggestions...

Somehow the setting “Background Sound when using media” was turned all the way down after Updating to iOS 18.

Try checking this: Settings > Audio & Visual > Background Sounds > Use When Media is Playing > on/off > move bar to 100%

Somehow the setting “Background Sound when using media” was turned all the way down after Updating to iOS 18.

Try checking this: Settings > Audio & Visual > Background Sounds > Use When Media is Playing > on/off > move bar to 100%

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Check Bluetooth? I updated to 18.1.1 and had no sound. Restarted twice as suggested here. Then realised the update switched on Bluetooth and my usual connections to a speaker and headphones. Disconnected Bt and external sounds are all back.

condition: no sound when opening online video

workaround:

1. Pause video and select video volume control.
2. select iPhone option from menu choices

on my macbook to after updating today

Same with me

Me too oh

After iOS 18 upgrade I noticed few issues . Siri was silence and my voice in another sighing app at the same setting I cannot hear my own voice .

Me too, also volume up & down in assistive touch is not working, ringtone volume line in settings also doesn’t affect sound