This Hidden iPhone Setting Makes Your FaceTimes Clearer

FaceTime calls can be hectic. From making sure you have a good connection so your video isn’t choppy to making sure the other person isn’t putting their phone to their ear, there are plenty of ways a video call can go wrong. But there’s something you can do to reduce the chaos: turn on your iPhone’s voice isolation feature.

Voice isolation for FaceTime calls was introduced with the release of iOS 15 in 2021. The feature attenuates background noises, like the sound of children playing in an adjoining room or your dog barking at something outside, so other people on the FaceTime call can hear you uninterrupted .

However, you won’t find the voice isolation feature in the settings, as you’d expect. Instead, you need to be on a FaceTime call to activate it. But once you’ve enabled the feature, it will stay enabled the next time you make a FaceTime call.

Here’s how to turn on voice isolation so people can hear you more clearly in FaceTime calls. If you prefer voice calls, you can enable voice isolation for this toothanks to iOS 16.4.

How to enable voice isolation

1. Start or join a FaceTime call.

2. Swipe down from the top right corner of your screen to access your Control center.

3. Faucet Microphone Mode near the top right corner of your screen.

4. Faucet Voice isolation.

Pro Tip: You don’t need to interrupt a FaceTime call with family and friends to activate this feature. You can call yourself on FaceTime and enable voice isolation by following the steps above.

How to turn on Broad Spectrum

In Microphone mode, there is another feature beside Voice Isolation called Wide Spectrum. While Voice Isolation dampens other noises around you during a FaceTime call, Wide Spectrum improves noises around you without affecting your voice.

Wide Spectrum is good for FaceTime conference calls or if you have a large group of people FaceTiming someone else. If you have a little brother or sister moving to college and you and your family want to wish them a happy birthday, Wide Spectrum can help you sing happy birthday to them all at once.

To enable Wide Spectrum, follow the steps above, but press Broad spectrum instead of vocal isolation.

Like Voice Isolation, Wide Spectrum will stay on the next time you make a FaceTime call. To disable Voice Isolation or Wide Spectrum, follow the instructions above and press Standard. This will return your microphone to its default setting.

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