iPhone Speaker Interference “Solution”

The other day we were dining at the PhilBrook Museum and the phone interference on their stereo speaker was deafening and highly annoying. They eventually had to turn the speakers off. The waiter looked at us knowingly and remarked, “it’s the phones”…IMHO, it sucks to have to turn off the nice background music for the entire restaurant just because the phones (and my iPhone seems to be a horrible offender in this regard) spew signal like it’s going out of style.

I heard of a “fix” today over on Bubblicious (yeah, it’s a little like duct tape) for stopping speaker interference. It’s a pretty easy adjustment to make when you’re getting crosstalk on your speakers.

  • Cut an iPhone-sized rectangle of aluminum foil
  • Set your iPhone on it when you aren’t using it

Apple iPhone With Aluminum Foil

6 comments ↓

#1 Hoyhoy on 04.30.08 at 12:46 am

I just soak IPhones in nuclear Starcrunches for about 16-weeks to prevent this from happening*

*Does not actually “work” under real world conditions

#2 Darin R. McClure on 06.04.08 at 10:07 am

Thank you! This really worked! Now I have a great new use for my tinfoil hat!

Darin

#3 Lisa on 06.04.08 at 10:12 am

Thank you so much for your post. I now have my iphone sitting on a piece of aluminum and I can now turn my speakers back on.

Great fix!

#4 john erik on 06.04.08 at 3:27 pm

wow! doing it now.

#5 damon on 06.04.08 at 3:52 pm

awesome. glad it is working out for you guys and gals.

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