Apple’s hidden setting instantly makes your video and audio calls sound better
by David Pierce from The Verge - All Posts on (#5ZCQK)
Image: Apple Whenever possible, I like to use FaceTime Audio or WhatsApp instead of making regular phone calls. The people I'm calling see it like a normal phone call, but the audio quality is leaps and bounds better than a good old-fashioned phone call.
But! It turns out I wasn't even doing my internet calls the right way. Today, I learned that there's a newish feature buried in the Control Center that instantly improves the quality of your microphone during calls, whether you're audio-only or on video.
It's called Voice Isolation, and it works on most iPhones, iPads and Macs from the last few years as long as you're running iOS 15 or macOS Monterey. (Anything that supports Spatial Audio seems to also support Voice Isolation.) It's weirdly hard to...