As my iPhone 7 Plus was restoring from iCloud, I thought I noticed some sound. Basically, if the phone is working overtime by, for example, running lots of applications at once, it begins to make a faint hissing sound.
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Some iPhone 7 users are getting a weird technological disturbance. However, it is still unknown which exact components are causing the noise – nothing inside the iPhone 7, short of the audio system, should be capable of creating this noise, stated Apple Insider. Stephen Hackett of 512 Pixels describes the issue. Reports of the hissing sounds come from users with both regular iPhone 7s and iPhone 7 plus.
Engadget ” s Jon Fingas says that “some suspect coil whine or similar electromagnetic effects”.
Apple’s new flagship phones use two performance-optimised cores and two energy-efficient-optimised cores on their quad-core A10 Fusion chip, which allows the handsets to save power while dynamically switching between energy-efficient and performance cores.
Tumblr co-founder and iOS developer Marco Arment posted his own explanation to Twitter saying the noise may be happening for a “good reason, but it’s still unfortunate and ungraceful”.
If that is the case, it’s very unlikely there would be an easy way to fix the hissing sound. After picking the device up from my desk, it was clear the sounds are coming from back of the phone, possibly from the CPU.
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Apple is now requesting users with affected phones to ship it to their nearest Apple store, for a replacement. So far, Apple has not commented on the matter, but if it’s a hardware problem or a software conundrum, it has yet to be disclosed.
